Project Report
| Mar 29, 2016
Learn from the Lone Star Nurse
By Michelle Stapleton | Director of Development
Your support of Nurse-Family Partnership helps us to serve more low-income first-time families - but what does that look like? A Nurse-Family Partnership Nurse, “..sees the good and potential in everyone, and she uses her considerable talents to help them see that in themselves.” (Dawn Porter, Lone Star Nurse Filmmaker)
There is a new series that brings America's most award-winning magazine, The New Yorker, to the screen with episodes called The New Yorker Presents and they have come out with a short episode called the Lone Star Nurse which follows a Nurse-Family Partnership nurse in Port Arthur Texas as she visits a few of her clients.
Click here to learn a little more about the work you are supporting: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-new-yorkers-television-show-lone-star-nurse
Thank you for the difference you have made in the lives of Nurse-Family Partnership families!
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Dec 29, 2015
Nurse-Family Partnership builds strong communities
By Michelle Stapleton | Director of Development
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Carmen, age 2
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) builds strong families and also “helps us to build a strong community for the future.” says Ann Stehn, director of the Kandiyohi County Minnesota Health and Human Services Department. Ann oversees the NFP program in Kandiyohi County Minnesota and they just held their first graduation!
Alexis, a Nurse-Family Partnership mom and her daughter Carmen are part of the first group of families to graduate from this Minnesota NFP program and she and her nurse, Lois share a little bit of their story in Minnesota (see link to article below.)
“I didn’t know what I was doing. I was five months pregnant and I didn’t know what to do,” Alexis said. “I was scared.”
Alexis is not alone, NFP is serving more than 31,000 families, like Alexis and Carmen, throughout the United States and growing. Your support helps to make these stories happen and on behalf of Nurse-Family Partnership and our families we thank you for helping bring this evidence-based intervention to so many.
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Sep 28, 2015
Nurse-Family Partnership Graduation
By Michelle Stapleton | Director of Development
There are moms and babies across the country who graduate from Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) all the time - this means they have worked with a NFP nurse from the time they were pregnant until their child turned two. They worked to have a healthy pregnancy; they worked to be the best parents they could be through reading to their children, being engaged and encouraging language skills and other key developmental milestones; and they worked to become self-sufficient through becoming advocates for themselves and their children, going back to school and finding work. Your support of NFP helps theses moms graduate and change their lives and the lives of thier children - thank you!
Following is a video created by a Nurse-Family Partnership graduate, please take a few minutes to enjoy thier story and know that you helped to make this possible (4 minutes, 52 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN-E-MnYlz8
Thank you for helping to make stories like this possible.
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