Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) works to positively impact and transform the lives of first-time moms and their babies through a proven home visiting model. By connecting families with specially educated and equipped home-visiting nurses, NFP provides support during pregnancy and earliest years of a child’s life. This trusted relationship makes a measurable, long-term impact on the entire family— children are healthy and families can thrive.
Nurse-Family Partnership is committed to providing comprehensive services to support families with a more holistic continuum of care.
Who Nurse-Family Partnership Serves
Nurse-Family Partnership works with first-time parents and their children, beginning in early pregnancy through their child’s second birthday. The program partners with families facing significant adversity and systemic and socioeconomic barriers to health and wellbeing. NFP is entirely voluntary and free-of-charge to enrolled families.
How Nurse-Family Partnership Works
Grounded in evidence and science
The NFP model is built on the science of human and brain development, with 45+ years of evidence showing positive outcomes for maternal health, child health and development, and family stability and success. With health equity at its core, NFP is part of a continuum of care that helps to strengthen family stability, connection, and long-term ability to thrive. NFP works to dismantle and eliminate disparities to improve long-term health outcomes for families now and in the future.
Delivered by specially educated nurses
NFP connects each family with a specially educated, registered nurse. Using their clinical skills and expertise, NFP nurses provide comprehensive support and preventative care, assessing both moms and babies to detect early warning signs of health or developmental problems during pregnancy, postpartum, infancy and early childhood. They also work closely with families to ensure they have confidence in their parenting skills and the resources and support they need to navigate the barriers they face in accessing healthcare and other resources.
Long-term, trusted relationship
NFP nurses and families partner in a 2.5 year-long relationship together, based around person-centered and strength-based care that meets the family where they are in life and builds on their own vision for their future. Through the long-term relationship, nurses become a trusted resource to parents and families, supporting and educating them on healthy prenatal practices, child health, and developmental milestones, and coaching them toward their personal goals for a stable future.
Two-generation approach for long-term impact
When new parents have the resources and support needed to raise happy, healthy children, they are better equipped to break cycles of trauma, poverty and poor health. By addressing the needs of the family as a whole – both parent and child together – Nurse-Family Partnership has a dual-generation approach and impact that lasts long into the child and family’s future.
The Impact of NFP
Families served annually
NFP nurses paired with families
Network partners delivering NFP in communities
The impact of Nurse-Family Partnership is demonstrated by 45+ years of research, combining evidence and empathy to help families break generational cycles. As a leading evidence-based intervention, NFP is backed by the highest quality research and continuous evaluation. We collect detailed data to track outcomes, measure impact, improve program quality, and better understand a family’s experience through a strengths-based approach.
NFP Success Stories
Voices of Empowerment: 25 Years of NFP in Pennsylvania
Fernanda and Christopher’s Story
