The healthy start coalition of miami-dade serves as miami-dade county's prenatal and infant care coalition by partnering with local community-based organizations and healthcare professionals to plan, coordinate and provide high quality health and education services to women of childbearing age, children to age three and their families. Hscmd oversees multiple programs in miami-dade county, including connect and healthy start. Through universal screenings, connect identifies needs and links families to the programs that best serve them. The healthy start program provides education, support and proven interventions to expecting and new families who are at-risk of a poor birth outcome or delay in development through this program. In the current year, the organization's programs served 44,223 individuals.