What others are saying about Nurse-Family Partnership.
Nurse-Family Partnership has garnered support and recognition from influential organizations and individuals across the country.
More than 30 years of research from randomized, controlled trials provides convincing evidence that the Nurse-Family Partnership model works – and delivers multi-generational outcomes that benefit communities and earns a substantial return on investment. Today, we have advocates from all sectors and fields including members of the U.S. Congress, state lawmakers, mayors, business leaders, healthcare professionals, policymakers, economists, and other opinion makers.
"...If we want to stop the cycle of poverty, then we need to start with our families.
"We need to start supporting parents with young children. There is a pioneering Nurse-Family Partnership program right now that offers home visits by trained registered nurses to low-income mothers and mothers-to-be. They learn how to care for themselves before the baby is born and what to do after. It's common sense to reach out to a young mother.
"This program saves money. It raises healthy babies and creates better parents. It reduced childhood injuries and unintended pregnancies, increased father involvement and women's employment, reduced use of welfare and food stamps, and increased children's school readiness. And it produced more than $28,000 in net savings for every high-risk family enrolled in the program.
"This works and I will expand Nurse-Family Partnership to provide at-home nurse visits for up to 570,000 first-time mothers each year. We can do this. Our God is big enough for that..."
– Then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to the Hampton University Annual Ministers' Conference in Hampton, Virginia, June 5, 2007
"In identifying the Blueprints programs, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence reviewed over 650 programs with published research in peer-reviewed literature – only six-percent of these programs clearly worked, or even appeared promising. It's unethical and irresponsible for government agencies to promote programs that have never been evaluated or evaluated and found to be ineffective or harmful – particularly when the lives of children and family members are at stake. We fully support and endorse Nurse-Family Partnership as a model effective program."
– Dr. Delbert S. Elliott, director, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado, to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Law Enforcement Conference, August, 16, 2006
"We have excellent yet limited examples of where we have successfully implemented outcome-based investments and accomplished stunning results. … The Nurse Family Partnership is a Seattle crime-prevention program that works."
– Tim Burgess, Seattle City Councilman, "The Importance of Measuring Whether Government Works," The Seattle Times, May 24, 2011
"Nurse-Family Partnership is a program that has strict accountability and proven results."
– George Runner, California State Senator (R-Antelope Valley)
"…The question, of course, is what can governments do about any of this? The answer is that there are programs that do work to help young and stressed mothers establish healthier attachments. These programs usually involve having nurses or mature women make a series of home visits to give young mothers the sort of cajoling and practical wisdom that in other times would have been delivered by grandmothers or elders."
"In the case of early childhood intervention and particularly in the Nurse-Family Partnership program, we actually have solid, rigorous, experimental-based evidence that demonstrates that this is a program that generates not only benefits to participating children and their families… but real economic returns that are a payback to society for making those investments."
– Lynn A. Karoly, senior economist, RAND Corporation, October 6, 2006
"Better maternal and child health is one big result. ... Nationally, the partnership has provided other payoffs. Participating mothers have cost taxpayers less money in welfare-related services. ... For all these reasons, from aiding young mothers and their children to rewarding the community-based health care model to investing in practices that work, we hope the administration signs on. The Texas Legislature already has done so, and we likewise hope Austin keeps up its commitment in next year's cash-strapped session. ... There is evidence to back up this medical practice."
– The Dallas Morning News Editorial Board, "Nurse-Family Partnership Deserves Investment," May 25, 2010
"The Panel finds that [Nurse-Family Partnership] meets the Congressional Top Tier Evidence standard, defined as: Interventions shown in well-designed and implemented randomized controlled trials, preferably conducted in typical community settings, to produce sizable, sustained benefits to participants and/or society."
– Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2005
"Nurse-Family Partnership is one of the few proven methods of preventing our children from tumbling into the juvenile justice systems."
– Interim report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, 2004
"All too often we choose ideology over science...the evidence that has been compiled and analyzed over all these years is irrefutable. This is such a good investment… one that really makes a difference."
– Then-U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) at the Nurse-Family Partnership National Forum (March 11, 2004)
"While I was Governor, we invested in proven approaches to address crime and delinquency. I am proud of the investment we made in the Nurse-Family Partnership program – an exceptional evidence-based program that helped more than 10,000 at-risk families and saved taxpayers an estimated $119 million over five years. That kind of public investment makes sense and it is why Nurse-Family Partnership remains a valuable program in Pennsylvania."
– Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania governor, March 2009
"Of all the programs we have seen, Nurse-Family Partnership has the history to show it makes the greatest possible difference in reducing family violence, reducing child abuse, improving school performances, and reducing criminal activities of both mother and child. This program will change Texas for the better and this legislation may be looked back on by future generations as the best work in many years of the Texas Legislature."
– Jerry Madden, Texas State Representative (R-Plano)
"Successful social programs are rare. A nonprofit [Nurse-Family Partnership] that helps low-income young mothers may be a model for others."
"Nurse-Family Partnership pairs nurses with mothers-to-be. It has been described as one of the state's best kept secrets."
– The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board, May 13, 2005
"Fixing Children's Services is only half the battle. A new program, Nurse-Family Partnership, helps mothers avoid trouble before it occurs."
– Chris Smith, "Mom School," New York Magazine, February 12, 2006
"Nurse-Family Partnership empowers first-time mothers with the resources and knowledge to provide an environment in which children can reach their full potential."
– Former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA)