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Babywearing: What It Is and How It Can Help
FROM THE DESK OF INDIAN RIVER HEALTHY START COALITION CEO, ANDREA BERRY. When my second child Finnegan was born, my oldest Sullivan had just turned two. It was a wild time -- looking back, I can say that babywearing saved me. It would have been nearly impossible to...
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Successful Community Doula Program Looks To Continue Training In January
Nine months after launching, Indian River County Healthy Start is experiencing their own birth, with a successful Community Doula program paving a path to provide a unique, free program available to every mother, every family, every baby. Doulas are trained,...
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Position Opening | Director of Development (Full Time)
Position Opening DIRECTOR of DEVELOPMENT (FULL TIME) About the Organization Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition’s (IRCHSC) mission is to establish and support a local system of care that optimizes the health of moms, babies and their families living in Indian...
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Start off 2019 with a Healthy Start at Beachside Half Marathon on January 6
Lace up your running shoes and start getting in shape for the 9th Annual Beachside Half Marathon to benefit Indian River Healthy Start Coalition, which is held on the first Saturday of the new year in Vero Beach’s Riverside Park, on January 6, 2019. The half marathon...
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Healthy Start Coalition Launches Nurse Family Partnership Program for First Time Mothers
Following several months of planning and generating community support, Indian River Healthy Start recently announced that it launched the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program in August, which will locally serve 25 first-time mothers in the Gifford area. The Nurse...
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New Weekly Classes Are Now in Progress-Free of Charge
The Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition has taken one of their successful programs, originally named Belly Beautiful, and expanded it by leaps and bounds including a name change to Babies & Beyond, showing the scope of what the new program now offers. CEO...
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Pregnant Women-Healthy Start Coalition is here to Educate & Support You! Weekly Classes Are Now in Progress-Free of Charge
The Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition’s Babies & Beyond would like to remind pregnant women and their support systems about classes offered to help share important information pertaining to Prenatal Education, Lactation/Breastfeeding with hospital...
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Global Company Donates to the Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition
Global Company Donates to the Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition Chris Foster and Mark Wygonik, Vero Beach residents and owners of M Boutique Foster My Body, produce and market a line of all natural and non-toxic skin care and bath products both locally and...
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Healthy Start Coalition Holds Annual Giving Closet Event
The annual Healthy Start’s Giving Closet, presented by the IRC Healthy Start Coalition and their partner Kidz Closet Charities, took place Saturday, August 5 at the new offices of Healthy Start located in the Bridgewater Building on Indian River Boulevard, Vero Beach....
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Class #2 for 2nd or 3rd Trimester: Laboring: Coping, Breathing, Positioning, Pushing, & Birth
Working and Breastfeeding? Making it work!!
MomLife Postpartum Group
Class #3 for 3rd & 4th Trimester: Baby’s here! What’s Normal? Plus, practice basics of infant CPR.
Class #3 for 3rd & 4th Trimester: Baby’s here! What’s Normal? Plus, practice basics of infant CPR.
Class #3 for 3rd & 4th Trimester: Baby’s here! What’s Normal? Plus, practice basics of infant CPR.
2nd or 3rd Trimester: HypnoBirthing Series
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Pregnant mothers touched by IRCHSC in Indian River County
ENCOUNTERS of EDUCATION AND HEALTH with mothers and new families in 2016
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