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.
Help us celebrate Circle K week by reaching out to a Circle K member with some encouragement and inspiration. The week culminates at the Laurel Lodge in Duncansville, PA with InterPACK as Circle K members and advisors gather to serve, learn, and fellowship. ... See MoreSee Less
On October 6 at Kalahari Resort in the Poconos, the Pennsylvania District of Kiwanis received the Celebrate Literacy Award from the Keystone State Literacy Association. Governor Janet Owen and James attended. The award recognizes the District’s commitment to literacy through Little Free Libraries, PA One Book, Read Across Pennsylvania, Keystone reading sets for schools, classroom reading, advocacy, and partnerships with ReadyNation and the Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children.
Last year, 2,500 books were distributed to Head Start classrooms across Pennsylvania. Local Kiwanis members read The Great Cookie Kerfuffle across the Commonwealth and will continue participating in PA One Book this year.
Kiwanis members strengthen early literacy by bringing books and reading programs directly into classrooms.
The Pennsylvania District of Kiwanis celebrates Young Children Priority One Chair Emily Reed, recipient of the KSLA Exemplary Service Award from the Keystone State Literacy Association. This well-deserved honor recognizes Emily’s strong advocacy for early education and literacy. ... See MoreSee Less
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:
For more information or to find a location by your Kiwanis club, visit Nurse Family Partnership.


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On October 6 at Kalahari Resort in the Poconos, the Pennsylvania District of Kiwanis received the Celebrate Literacy Award from the Keystone State Literacy Association. Governor Janet Owen and James attended. The award recognizes the District’s commitment to literacy through Little Free Libraries, PA One Book, Read Across Pennsylvania, Keystone reading sets for schools, classroom reading, advocacy, and partnerships with ReadyNation and the Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children.
Last year, 2,500 books were distributed to Head Start classrooms across Pennsylvania. Local Kiwanis members read The Great Cookie Kerfuffle across the Commonwealth and will continue participating in PA One Book this year.
Kiwanis members strengthen early literacy by bringing books and reading programs directly into classrooms.
The Pennsylvania District of Kiwanis celebrates Young Children Priority One Chair Emily Reed, recipient of the KSLA Exemplary Service Award from the Keystone State Literacy Association. This well-deserved honor recognizes Emily’s strong advocacy for early education and literacy. ... See MoreSee Less
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