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.
Clients must be pregnant and reside in one of the following 11 Tulsa County ZIP codes: 74011, 74012, 74063, 74106, 74110, 74115, 74116, 74117, 74126, 74127 or 74130 to be eligible for the program.
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 Kathy Kleine, Maternal Child Health Outreach Manager at 918-594-4766 or kkleine@tulsa-health.org.
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
There are two ways to submit a referral:
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) on the second and fourth Thursdays of each 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 who reside in Tulsa County ZIP codes: 74011, 74012, 74063, 74106, 74110, 74115, 74116, 74117, 74126, 74127 and 74130 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.
The Art of Breastfeeding: Taking a Deeper Dive
Parenting Matters. The Value of Childhood Attachment
Tulsa Health Department North Regional Health & Wellness Center
Dad 2 Dad Fatherhood Class
Second and fourth Thursdays of the month
Spanish Classes*
Tulsa Health Department North Regional Health & Wellness Center. Please note that these classes will only be presented in Spanish*
We have 10 locations across Tulsa County that offer a variety of services to help you and your family stay healthy.
