When I started as an Nurse-Family Partnership nurse home visitor and saw the scientific results in the training materials, I thought, “Okay, it looks good;…
Fighting the Heroin Epidemic, Fighting for Clients Nurse Michelle Krantz had a bad feeling when her client kept canceling appointments. Cora and her husband, Eddie,…
China, a 21-year-old, senior nursing student, found out she was pregnant on a rainy morning, when a simple hunch led her to take the dollar-store…
“It was the best thing that happened to Elmira. David [Olds] saved a lot of young kids and changed a lot of lives,” said Georgie.…
Inclement weather in the mountains of North Carolina would sometimes keep Kathryn Ross, a nurse working with Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), a nonprofit that supports…
When she first found out she was pregnant, Natausha Smith, BSN, RN, was preparing to finish her nursing degree—not become a mother. Read Natausha’s…
FLORENCE, S.C. – One in five babies in South Carolina is born to a first-time, low-income mother. Many of the moms are young, like 18-year-old…
Tin Tin Aye sits on the floor in her Iowa apartment, laughing and stacking building blocks with her son who’s almost two. Her bright smile…
A significant disparity in the health of New York City’s babies exists. While the city’s infant mortality rates are at an all-time low, the most…
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee held a hearing for the first time to explore how evidence-based programs like Nurse-Family Partnership change outcomes. Tesha Bright, a…
“I look at the Flint River every day and I knew I couldn’t do it. It’s nasty. They’ve found diapers and trash and bodies in…
Sitting on the floor of her Duncanville, Texas, home, 20-year-old Mariah Gaines gently rolls a ball to her 8-month-old son Ezekiel. When he catches it,…
In the swamps of Louisiana, in the autumn of 2004, an infant named Daigan Theriot was born to a young teen-age mother named Alexis. Alexis’s…
Spotlight on Nurses – Pat’s story. As a community nurse, Pat believed in her heart that the work she was doing—providing preventive healthcare to young mothers…
