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February 5, 2013 | Program Result
Child FIRST is a home-based early childhood intervention that works with the most vulnerable very young children and their families to reduce serious emotional disturbance, developmental and learning problems, and abuse and neglect.
September 5, 2012 | Video
Child FIRST is an innovative home-visit program in Connecticut, is designed to stabilize families, connect them with social services, and help develop and support nurturing, responsive caregivers.
June 29, 2012 | Story
New and notable quotes on home visitation programs, Action Coalitions in Georgia and Kansas, nurse practitioners, and more.
May 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
David Olds, PhD, is founder of the Nurse-Family Partnership, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 40th Anniversary Force Multiplier that provides maternal and early childhood health programs for at-risk, first-time mothers. He is a professor of pediatri ...
May 3, 2012 | Story
The timely intervention of a specially trained nurse held the potential to change the lives of poor young mothers and their babies for the better ... not just in the near term, but for many years to come.
March 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Are you signed up to receive Sharing Nursing’s Knowledge? The monthly Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) e-newsletter will keep you up to date on the latest nursing news, research and trends. Here are descriptions of some of the stories in the Fe ...
March 13, 2012 | Feature
The Nurse-Family Partnership gives young, low-income women who are first-time parents somewhere to turn.
October 4, 2011 | Program Result
Under the state of New Jersey's Nurse Delegation Pilot Program, registered nurses delegated specific health care tasks performed in the homes of some Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities or chronic conditions to certified home health aides.
December 16, 2010 | Program Result
Healthy Steps for Young Children is a program in pediatric and family practices that focuses on the first three years of life.
February 25, 2010 | Story
Harriet Kitzman is building on decades of research exploring the impact of a promising program that pairs registered nurses with low-income first-time mothers.