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Nurse-Family Partnership
In December 2005, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene awarded the Visiting Nurse Service of New York’s Children and Family Services (CFS) program the contract for the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) in the South Bronx. NFP is a national model of support for low-income, first-time mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday. Research has shown that this program results in improved long-term and short-term outcomes for both the mothers and their children.
In 2007, Children and Family Services received two new grants from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The first grant, for $4.9 million, will expand our Nurse-Family Partnership in the Bronx. The program, which currently serves 400 first-time, low-income mothers in the South Bronx, will now serve an additional 300 mothers in the Bronx who live in Community Districts 11 and 12.
The second grant, for more than $4.9 million, will allow us to launch a Nurse-Family Partnership program on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This program will serve 300 mothers and their children. By July 2009, VNSNY’s program will serve 1000 clients and be the largest NFP in New York City.
Trained under national NFP guidelines, VNSNY nurses make home visits under the supervision of a full-time nurse manager. Typically, a nurse will first see the mother during the second trimester and continue to visit mother and child for up to two years after birth. In addition to the nurses, three escort/translators and clerical personnel are employed.
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