Regional Prevention Center:
Stewart Marchman's Regional Prevention Center is located on 702 S. Ridgewood Avenue in Daytona Beach Florida. The facility now provides free educational materials, lending curriculums and videos on topics related to all kinds of substance/alcohol abuse, the effects of abuse and addiction and many other topics related to the substance abuse and mental health fields. The center is open to the entire community serving parents, youth, community leaders and professionals from 8:00am to 5:00pm. Please call Regional Prevention Director Victoria Kress at 947-2460 for an appointment or for any other information.

Prevention on the Move:
The Prevention on the Move project is a community-based collaboration that centers on the mobilization of services that will be delivered to the community of Volusia and Flagler Counties through the use of a mobile resource unit. This project will deliver prevention and education services directly to the community with a focus on the detection and arrest of HIV, HepC, and other communicable diseases through an easily accessible and confidential service delivery system, and is connected to other grant programs awarded to the community. A collaboration of community human services providers will create a "One Stop Shop" for testing, immunizations, and linkage to many social service providers. The Prevention on the Move mobile unit is customized to provide a confidential office for the collection of personal data and testing. With collaborative partners actively involved with this project, Prevention on the Move will be available after hours and on weekends and in locations where the community services are not usually available. For more information, please contact: Toni Barrett Senior Vice President for Programs 3875 Tiger Bay Road, Daytona Beach, FL 32124 Phone:(386) 947-1483 Fax (386) 947-1309 or e-mail at tbarrett@stewartmarchman.org

Closing the Gap:

Stewart Marchman Center was awarded funding by the Florida Department of Health to deliver prevention and health care information to minority women of child bearing age that are residents of the Daytona Beach Central City Front Porch Community. Closing the Gap seeks to minimize the social disparity that exists with regard to infant and maternal health, with specific goals stated to reduce the incidence of infant and maternal mortality. This project will consist of a community based health care access service to promote pre- and inter-conceptional care, including nutrition and weight management, family planning, smoking cessation, economic self-sufficiency, immunizations and health screenings. The project will partner with "Prevention on the Move"* as a vessel for on-site delivery of healthcare education and awareness programs, including pre- and inter-conceptional information, to at risk minority women within this community.

For more information, please contact:
Dena Whipper, Project Director dwhipper@stewartmarchman.org
386.947.2461

Alicia Hawkins, Women's Health Care Coordinator ahawkins@stewartmarchman.org
386.271.5017

Healthy Start and Healthy Families are voluntary programs providing services to prenatal moms and infants (birth to 3 or 5 years of age), extra help and encouragement to parents who may be feeling overwhelmed, along with providing lessons on:

Prenatal Care
Immunization and well baby care
Breastfeeding and nutrition
How their baby grows and develops
Parenting
Fun activities for parents and babies
How to find community services to address the families needs.

For more information about the Healthy Start Coalition of Flagler & Volusia Counties, Inc., please visit their website at http://www.healthystartfv.org.

For more information on Healthy Families Florida, visit their website at http://www.healthyfamiliesfla.org/aboutus.html.