Strong Beginnings - Healthy Start, SF/PF Project

Strong Beginnings is a federal Healthy Start program created in 2004 to improve the health and well-being of Black and Latine women, men, and their babies, from pregnancy through early childhood. Strong Beginnings seeks to promote racial equity and eliminate disparities in birth outcomes and maternal health between whites and People of Color in Kent County.

We want every family to have what they need to have a healthy pregnancy and make sure their children thrive. All services are available in English and Spanish.

Strong Beginnings is a partnership of these community agencies:

Arbor Circle

Cherry Health

Corewell Health-West Maternal Infant Health Program

Healthy Kent Action Team (IHAT)

Kent County Health Department

Michigan State University

Trinity Health

University of Michigan Health-West

Corewell Health serves as the fiduciary for Strong Beginnings.