(31 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Flint, Michigan – 25 July 2025
1. Various of a “baby parade” celebrating the Rx Kids program
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mona Hanna, Rx Kids founder:
“We are just bringing back baby parades, because we think it's important to re-center our attention to mothers and babies to make sure that once again we celebrate our most precious resource.”
3. A sign points the way to the Rx Kids baby parade
4. Parade participants march past
5. Pediatrician and Rx Kids founder Dr. Mona Hanna talks to a baby
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mona Hanna, Rx Kids founder:
“Rx Kids is a prescription for health, hope and opportunity. It is the nation's first community-wide mom and baby cash prescription program. So, what that means is every mother, every expecting mother in an Rx Kids community gets $1,500 in mid-pregnancy. And that every baby, every baby, once they're born, gets $500 a month.”
7. A stilt walker and skaters at the parade
8. Rx Kids mom Angela Sintery hugs her 14-month-old, Jo Jo Love Caldwell
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Sintery, Rx Kids mom:
“The money was in my bank account. It was just unbelievable. It helped me through my pregnancy to make sure that I felt ready for my baby. I didn't have to worry, stress.”
10. Jo Jo walks around while holding a stuffed animal
11. Various of the baby parade
12. A baby looks as bubbles are blown
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mona Hanna, Rx Kids founder:
“So, the program started in January of 2024, so a little over a year-and-a-half ago, in Flint, Michigan, which is where we are right now. We started this in Flint for many reasons. Flint is the poorest city in the state, but also has one of the highest child poverty rates in the nation. But Flint's a place that's used to doing big things, a place where we're not OK with the status quo, be it, hey, we're not OK with poisoned water, and we are no longer OK with our babies growing up in poverty.”
14. Various of the parade
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mona Hanna, Rx Kids founder:
“And we also started seeing some really incredible outcomes: Improvements in stress and family financial security. Families could make ends meet.”
16. Rx Kids mom Celeste Lord-Timlin blows bubbles at her 13-month-old Siobhan Timlin
17. Hanna interacts with Siobhan
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mona Hanna, Rx Kids founder:
“It is a public-private partnership. So many folks from so many different sectors have raised their hands and said, ‘Yes, we want to be part of this program.’”
19. An Rx Kids volunteer stacks packs of diapers at the parade site
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mona Hanna, Rx Kids founder:
“And so, the goal of Rx Kids is to improve health, to address this root-cause pathogen that makes so many of our kids sick and makes it really hard for them to be healthy and successful in their future.”
21. Jo Jo demands and receives a sip of a slushie
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mona Hanna, Rx Kids founder:
“So, Rx Kids is already bui... [truncated]
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