Tag Archives: Healthy Families

Keeping Families Healthy During Difficult Times

Being separated from our friends, extended family, and the rest of the community during this COVID-19 pandemic can be especially hard if you’re pregnant or taking care of a new baby or young children. Pregnant women, mothers, and fathers may not have the support they would normally have. The Onondaga County Health Department is just… Read more >

Film Students Team Up with the Health Department to Promote Safe Sleep for Infants

By Lisa GreenMills, Program Coordinator, Syracuse Healthy Start and Kara Verbanic, Public Health Educator Finding out you’re pregnant can be life-changing news, and along with all the congratulations and well wishes from family and friends, new parents also get bombarded with plenty of unsolicited advice! It can range from helpful, to mildly amusing, to outright… Read more >

Moms: Are You Ready for Your New Beginnings?

By Indu Gupta, MD, MPH, Onondaga County Commissioner of Health Contributing Author: Lisa GreenMills, RN, MPH, Syracuse Healthy Start Project Director Let us take our focus to the time where the life begins. We all know that to have a healthy baby, the most important thing is a mother’s complete health- physical, emotional, and social… Read more >