Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is an evidence-based, nurse home visiting program that improves the health, wellbeing and self-sufficiency of first-time, low-income parents and their children.NFP Nurse Home Visitors work with their clients to achieve three important goals:

• Improve pregnancy outcome 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.

Program Elements:

• Home visitors are highly educated and trained registered nurses.
• Nurse home visitors follow visit guidelines that focus on the mother's personal health, quality of care-giving and life-course development.
• Women voluntarily enroll as early in their pregnancy as possible with nurse home visits beginning ideally by the 16^th week of pregnancy, and continuing through the first two years of the child's life.
• Registered nurses visit weekly for the first month after enrollment and then every other week until the baby is born.Visits are weekly for the first six weeks after the baby is born, and then every other week through the child's first birthday.Visits continue on an every-other-week basis until the baby is 20 months.The last four visits are monthly until the child is two years old.
• Nurse home visitors involve the mother's support system including family members and friends, and they assist in assessing the need for other health and human services.