Nurse-Family Partnership
What Is It?
Nurse-Family Partnership is an evidence-based program that positively impacts school readiness and provides positive long-term results for children and their families.
The program is launching in Anderson, Greenville, Lexington, Richland and Spartanburg counties. NFP and its partners in the state are working to expand to additional counties in South Carolina in the near future.
The Duke Endowment, South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control and The Children's Trust Fund of South Carolina are collaborating in the South Carolina program launch.
NFP nurse home visitors work with their clients to achieve three goals:
- Improve pregnancy outcomes by helping women engage in preventive health practices, including obtaining thorough prenatal care from their healthcare providers, improving their diet, and reducing their use of cigarettes, alcohol and illegal substances;
- Improve child health and development by helping parents provide responsible and competent care; and
- 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.
Randomized, controlled trials conducted over 30 years prove Nurse-Family Partnership works. Substantial and dramatic results observed in those trials include:
- 67 percent reduction in behavioral and intellectual problems at age 6;
- 48 percent reduction in child abuse and neglect;
- 56 percent reduction in emergency room visits for accidents and poisonings;
- 59 percent reduction in arrests of children at the age of 15;
- 72 percent fewer convictions of mothers at child age 15.
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Who Is Eligible?
Nurse-Family Partnership focuses on expectant first-time mothers. Enrollment is available during the 16th -28th week of gestation.
How To Apply
Implementing Agency:
Spartanburg Regional Health Services District, Inc.
Phyllis Osborne
posborne@srhs.com