Nurse-Family Partnership  

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is designed for pregnant women with low-incomes and their children and focuses on first-time parents. Participating clients receive one-on-one home visits from a registered professional nurse. The visits begin early in the client’s pregnancy (with program enrollment no later than the 28th week of pregnancy) and conclude when the client’s child turns 2 years old. NFP is designed to improve (1) prenatal and maternal health and birth outcomes, (2) child health and development, and (3) families’ economic self-sufficiency and maternal life course development.  

What Nurse Family Partnership Does 

Registered nurses work with the mothers-to-be during pregnancy to promote and teach positive health and attachment behaviors between a mother and her baby. Nurses are trusted and respected professionals who are able to foster a powerful bond with the mother. The relationship of trust makes a measurable difference for the whole family. 

Nurse-Family Partnership encourages fathers, family members and even friends to be involved in the visits to learn how they can best support new mothers. 

 Kiwanis Partnerships 

Kiwanis Club across the state are partnering with their local Nurse Family Partnership. In 2025-2026, Past Governor Tom Harp’s Governor’s Project was to support Nurse Family Partnerships. During that year, Pennsylvania Kiwanis clubs were able to donate 400 baby bath duck thermometers, 400 soother sleep sound machine night lights, 400 forehead infant/toddler thermometers, and 400 high contrast black and white board books to Nurse Family Partnership programs across the state.

Clubs can and have also: 

  • Raised monies to purchase needed materials (highchairs, cribs etc)
  • Hosted holiday parties
  • Created Mother’s Day craft kits or flowerpot kits
  • Facilitated a drive for diapers, wipes, baby food and other necessities
  • Created backpack of necessities for each mother in the program
  • Purchased CPR dolls for parent training 

For more information or to find a location by your Kiwanis club, visit Nurse Family Partnership.

 

 

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