2025 Annual Report - Flipbook - Page 13
UNITED FOR HEALTHY STARTS
In April 2025, TriStar Health, via the HCA Healthcare Foundation,
gave $1.84 million to Mile High United Way to launch United
for Healthy Starts, a national collaboration between four United
Ways to help increase access to social, economic and education
support services for families, including UWGN.
United for Healthy Starts is a pilot focused on helping to
increase the number of families that have strong, healthy
starts through home visitation and wraparound services
tailored to the needs of each family supported. This
partnership provided funds to expand services for three
community partners focused on in-home, maternal and
infant care: Catholic Charities, Nurses for Newborns and TN
Voices. In 2025, families received 3,000 home visits, along
with parenting classes, community baby showers and group
meetings that provided community for new parents in need.
SUPPORTING NEW AND
EXPECTANT MOTHERS THROUGH 211
In addition to home visitation and wraparound services,
United for Healthy Starts helped to enhance the 211
Helpline to ensure that more expecting and new families
had access to everyday resources necessary to help their
families thrive.
With this support, 211 expanded maternal health resources
across the connected 42-county region, focusing especially
on rural communities where access to care can be limited.
We also added a new question to our 211 intake form: “Are
you a new or expectant parent?”
This simple addition has transformed how we support
families. When a caller reaches out for rent or utility
assistance and shares that they’re expecting or recently
welcomed a child, our certi昀椀 ed call specialists now connect
them not only to their immediate need but also to those
wraparound support services such as parenting and
lactation classes, diaper banks, and formula support.
Often, families in crisis are focused on one urgent
problem. Thanks to United for Healthy Starts, 211 is helping
them uncover a network of care, supporting stability, health
and hope for Tennessee’s newest parents and their babies.
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