Nurse-Family Partnership
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Nurse-Family Partnership
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) focuses on 1st time mothers; during a 1st pregnancy the best chance exists to promote & teach positive health & development behaviors between a mother & her baby. Registered nurses deliver NFP fostering a powerful bond between nurse & mother. An NFP client begins with her nurse home visitor during her first trimester & continues through the child’s 2nd birthday. This intervention during pregnancy allows for any critical behavioral changes needed to improve the health of the mother & child. The NFP National Office provides intensive education for nurse home visitors who utilize Visit Guidelines, clinical consultation & intervention resources to translate NFP’s theoretical foundations & content into practice in an adaptable way to each family. NFP agencies enter data from visits into a Clinical Information System. This data is monitored to ensure the program is being implemented with fidelity to the research model, so comparable results are achieved.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Infants and toddlers
Related Program
Nurse-Family Partnership
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This is the total number of families who received Nurse-Family Partnership services during a given calendar year.
Percentage of mothers who do not become pregnant within two years of their first child's birth.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Infants and toddlers
Related Program
Nurse-Family Partnership
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This represents the percentage of moms participating in NFP that delay subsequent pregnancies by at least 2 years. This has been shown to have beneficial health effects for mom and future babies.
Number of Families Enrolled
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Families
Related Program
Nurse-Family Partnership
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of mothers reporting that they breast-feed their babies
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Infants and toddlers
Related Program
Nurse-Family Partnership
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Percentage of program participants who initiated breastfeeding with their babies. Breastfeeding is linked to long-term health benefits for mother and child.
Number of mothers who have not become pregnant within 2 years of their first child's birth
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Infants and toddlers
Related Program
Nurse-Family Partnership
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Percentage of program participants that delay subsequent pregnancies by at least two years. Pregnancy spacing contributes to the economic mobility of families living in poverty.
Number of mothers age 18 or older when their child was born who are working when the child is 12 months old.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Women and girls, Infants and toddlers
Related Program
Nurse-Family Partnership
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Percentage of program participants who achieve this goal. Workforce participation is a contributing factor to economic self-sufficiency.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Nurse-Family Partnership's program goals are:
1. Improve pregnancy outcomes by helping women engage in good preventive health practices, including thorough prenatal care form their healthcare providers, improving their diets, and reducing their use of cigarettes, alcohol and illegal substances;
2. Improve child health and development by helping parents provide responsible and competent care resulting in an increase in school readiness; and
3. Improve the economic self-sufficiency of the family by helping parents develop a vision for their own future, plan future pregnancies, continue their education and find work.
Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office's goals are to continue to serve more and more families with the highest program quality possibly and provide our nurses and agencies with world class customer service.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Nurse-Family Partnership's program goals are ongoing and every visit a nurse makes to a new mom is work towards those goals. Program outcomes are tracked locally and nationally to ensure quality implementation of NFP.
Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office's goals of growth, quality and delivering world class customer service will be realized through the following work:
• Work with other evidence-based home visiting programs to get the Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting program which is federal funding stream to states reauthorized.
• Evaluate options for increasing the scale of our program in certain geographic areas in order to show a direct impact on a community when Nurse-Family Partnership is implemented at scale.
• Continuous quality improvement work will focus on implementation efficiency issues in order serve more families and custom plans will be worked on as needed to strengthen program outcomes.
• Our customer service to NFP agencies is being greatly strengthened through ongoing work to establish an on-demand, customizable report portal for all NFP agencies.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Nurse-Family Partnership has the highest level of evidence that it is an effective program through three randomized controlled trials and strong outcomes from those trials:
• Improved prenatal health
• Fewer childhood injuries
• Fewer subsequent pregnancies
• Increased intervals between births
• Increased maternal employment
• Improved school readiness
Nurse-Family Partnership has a network of more than 230 agencies across the country implementing the NFP program and each of these agencies is connected with their communities.
The data from every visit a nurse makes to a family is recorded in Nurse-Family Partnership's national data system allowing for local reports that can truly help an agency recognize their strengths and areas where they can improve.
Nurse-Family Partnership works with other early childhood home visiting programs for federal funding and advocacy.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Nurse-Family Partnership has grown to serve families in 43 states. We have begun to serve Native American/Tribal families in the last few years and we are are constantly evaluating ways we can improve our program for the families we are serving. We have helped bring federal funding to states for Nurse-Family Partnership and other evidence-based home visiting programs.
With all of our work and progress toward serving more families, we would like to serve even more; to have increased and meaningful levels of participation within communities being served by Nurse-Family Partnership and showing how we can truley help break the cycle of poverty and positively impact the health and development of babies and their families.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Operations
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Nurse-Family Partnership
Board of directorsas of 03/16/2023
Paurvi Bhatt
Medtronic Foundation
Term: 2023 - 2028
Todd Wenner
Infinite Aegis
Fred Cerise
Parkland Health & Hospital System
David Perez
David Kass
Council on Foundations
Amy Young
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
Paurvi Bhatt
Medtronic Foundation
Rich Ostuw
Karen Howard
First Focus on Children
Chelsea Lawyer
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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