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YOUR CART

Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) is:
  • An evidence-based, community health program
  • Transforming lives of vulnerable, first-time mothers living in poverty
  • Improving prenatal care, quality of parenting and life prospects for mothers by partnering them with with a registered nurse
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Every dollar invested in NFP can yield more than five dollars in return.
Program Goals
  • Improve pregnancy outcomes
  • Improve child health and development
  • ​Improve parents' economic self-sufficiency

Who can enroll in the program?
Any pregnant woman who:
  • Is less than 28 weeks gestation
  • Will be a first-time mother (first live birth)
  • Meets low income requirements, such as Medicaid or WIC eligible
  • ​Resides in 32808 and 32818 zip code
Key Program Components
  • Knowledge, judgment and skills
  • High levels of trust, low stigma
  • Credibility and perceived authority
  • Nursing theory and practice at core of original model 

Key Program Components
  • First-time, at-risk mothers
  • Registered nurses
  • Intensive services (intensity, duration)
  • Focus on behavior
  • ​Program fidelity 

For more information on the Nurse-Family Partnership, please contact us at
(407) 228-1478
"There is a magic window during pregnancy...it's a time when desire to be a good mother and raise a healthy, happy child creates motivation to overcome incredible obstacles including poverty, instability or abuse with the help of a well-trained nurse."

David Olds, Ph.D., Founder Nurse-Family Partnership
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