Proven increases in economic self-sufficiency.
Nurse-Family Partnership families are able to plan a life course for success.
The Nurse-Family Partnership program not only prevents a lot of harmful things from happening, it also prompts good things that often aren't expected. As Nurse-Family Partnership Nurse Home Visitors provide first-time, low-income moms with a relationship and guidance they can count on, the moms' visions for the future can emerge, and families start to find their strengths – moving from the risk of poverty to economic self-sufficiency.
The results of three randomized, controlled trials demonstrate that Nurse-Family Partnership delivers against its three primary goals of better pregnancy outcomes, improved child health and development, and increased economic self-sufficiency.
Among the increased economic self-sufficiency outcomes that have been observed in at least one of the trials of the program are:
- Fewer unintended subsequent pregnancies
- 32-percent fewer subsequent pregnancies
- Increase in labor force participation by the mother
- 83-percent increase by the child's fourth birthday
- Reduction in welfare use
- 20-percent reduction in months on welfare
- Increase in father involvement
- 46-percent increase in father's presence in the household
"We know the dramatic effect good parenting can have on children. When Nurse-Family Partnership empowers these young women with critical skills and knowledge, fragile families learn how to become healthy families."
– Estelle Richman, secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
Nurse-Family Partnership public awareness video, 2001