A nonprofit organization operating in the United States, founded in the 1970s by researcher David Olds, that connects mothers pregnant with their first child with registered nurses who provide home visits from pregnancy until the child's second birthday. The Nurse-Family Partnership focuses on improving maternal health, child development and family economic self-sufficiency, targeting low-income first-time mothers and emphasizing prenatal care, parenting skills and ongoing monitoring of child health during the earliest and most formative years of a child's life.
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Target PopulationLow-income, first-time mothers 1 Geographic ScopeOver 700 counties across 40 US states and the U.S. Virgin Islands 1 Program status (class) Classification
Program KindHealth Education Program 1 Connections
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Program description, target sentence
NFP targets low-income, first-time mothers
Operations section, counties sentence
NFP operates in over 700 counties across 40 states, as well as in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- Wikipedia 'Nurse-Family Partnership': 'is a non-profit organization operating in the United States'; checked 2026-09-27.
Associated With: Maternal and Child Health, Lead section
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a non-profit organization operating in the United States that connects mothers pregnant with their first child with registered nurses, who provide home visits until the child's second birthday.
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