Giving a Baby a Better Life
March 13, 2012 | Feature
The Nurse-Family Partnership gives young, low-income women who are first-time parents somewhere to turn.
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Quotable Quotes about Nursing, June 2012
June 29, 2012 | Story
New and notable quotes on home visitation programs, Action Coalitions in Georgia and Kansas, nurse practitioners, and more.
Improving on Success: Why the Nurse-Family Partnership Model is a Work in Progress
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 ...
Sharing Nursing's Knowledge: What's in the February Issue
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 ...
Edge Runner Digs Deeper Into Work on Behalf of Low-Income Mothers
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.
Home Visiting by Paraprofessionals and by Nurses
September 1, 2002 | Journal Article
This study focuses on the effectiveness of home visiting by specially trained paraprofessionals and nurses as separate means of improving maternal and child health
The Nurse Home Visitation Program
January 1, 2002 | Book
This chapter in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Anthology V, examines nurse visitation programs to disadvantaged first-time mothers during and after their pregnancies.
Expanding Healthy Steps, an Effective Program that Augments and Improves Pediatric Care
February 13, 2008 | Program Result Report
Healthy Steps for Young Children (Healthy Steps), managed by ICF International (formerly ICF Incorporated), was a national initiative, started with funding from the Commonwealth Fund in 1994, to augment pediatric care in order to enhance the growth and development of young children.
A Closer Look at the Olds Model
August 26, 2008 | Program Result Report
The architects of the Nurse-Family Partnership grounded the program's strategy and content in research and theory.
Nurse-Family Partnership Program
August 26, 2008 | Program Result Report
RWJF has provided 12 grants totaling $26.8 million to support development of David L. Olds' home-visiting model and its national replication as the Nurse-Family Partnership.