NOTICE: All Tulsa Health Department locations are closed Thursday & Friday, Nov 23-24th in observance of Thanksgiving. We will reopen on Monday, November 27th to serve you.
The Tulsa Health Department’s Healthy Start program is confidential, free and works to ensure our families are healthy, safe and thriving.
Tulsa County moms, babies and dads deserve the best. Healthy Start provides free and confidential clinic triage and home visitation case management services for expecting and postpartum moms and their babies up to age 18 months. The goal of the program is to improve birth outcomes and reduce infant mortality with an emphasis on those populations at highest risk.
Healthy Start helps families with:
The program is community based, using case management as the core service and a community consortia advisory structure to achieve improved birth outcomes and a strengthened community infrastructure. Healthy Start seeks to preserve continuity of care for women, children and families throughout their child-bearing years.
Healthy Start services are offered through numerous area clinics and at THD’s North Regional Health and Wellness Center, 5635 N. Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd. For more information, please contact Healthy Start Program Manager Christy Edmonds at 918-595-4220 or cedmonds@tulsa-health.org.
There are two ways to submit a referral:
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The Healthy Start referral form initiates your access to free, confidential support services. By submitting this form, you begin your journey toward a healthier, safer, and thriving family life.
In addition, the Healthy Start program is committed to improving the father, parent-child relationship through fatherhood engagement. THD’s Fatherhood Program promotes this philosophy by linking fathers to resources that strengthen the role for the involvement of the father; education on the stages of pregnancy; postpartum education; and education on Safe Sleep for Babies and Period of PURPLE Crying (PURPLE)®.
THD’s Fatherhood Program also offers group sessions (Dad 2 Dad) once a month using the 24/7 Dad® curriculum, a voluntary and comprehensive fatherhood program designed to help men improve their parenting skills and fathering knowledge.
THD’s Fatherhood Program works with fathers to help them with the following:
For additional program information contact Byron Dixon, THD Healthy Start Fatherhood Coordinator, at 918-595-4223 or bdixon@tulsa-health.org.
Are you are a registered nurse and interested in getting involved? We’d like to hear from you. Please call 918-779-6949 or visit our careers page.
We have 10 locations across Tulsa County that offer a variety of services to help you and your family stay healthy.
