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Nurse-Family Partnership works by having specially trained nurses regularly visit first-time moms-to-be, starting early in the pregnancy and continuing after the baby is born.
Our goals are to improve pregnancy outcomes by helping women engage in good preventive health practices, improve child health and development by helping parents provide responsible and competent care, and improve the economic self-sufficiency of the family by helping parents develop a vision for their own future, plan future pregnancies, continue their education and find work.
Nurse-Family Partnership is a national, evidence-based program currently serving 42 states.
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Outcomes
Nationally, nurse visited mothers and babies have:
- Decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking
- Fewer hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
- Fewer closely-spaced subsequent pregnancies
- Improved diet
- Fewer preterm births
- More mothers breastfeeding at 6 months
- More infants immunized at 6 months
- Reductions in child abuse and neglect
- Reduction in health-care encounters for injuries
- Improved school readiness
- Reduction in use of welfare and other government assistance
- Greater employment for the mothers
- Increase in father presence and partner stability
In its first year and a half, the Nurse-Family Partnership of Central Alabama:
- Saw 98 successful births
- Expanded by two registered nurses in Jefferson County
- Fewer closely-spaced subsequent pregnancies
- Expanded care to Walker County
- Added psychiatric and mental health resources for mothers
- Connected mothers-to-be and new mothers to employment resources
- Decreased pre-term birth rates below the Jefferson County average
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Impact
“This partnership is a lot easier. I don’t have to always call the pediatrician when I have a question, and I have had a lot of questions. I didn’t expect this to be so hands-on, but it has been nice to know Brandy since before Aria was here. It’s like we’ve grown at the same time.”
- Alexus
“It’s opened a lot of doors for me, including providing resources for jobs. This has given me a lot of helpful information. We get to talk about a lot, and then I share that information with people I know who have babies or are pregnant. Charlotte was very helpful (throughout my pregnancy), and I know it will continue to be helpful to have someone to talk to instead of Google.”
- Jametta
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Our Nurses
Kaylee Baswell, BSN, RN
Kim Boles, BSN, RN
Lauren Crawford, BSN, RN
Raven England, BSN, RN
Karmie Johnson, DNP, CRNP
Candace Knight, PhD, RN
Brandi Moore, BSN, RN
Michelle Peterson, BSN, RN
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Donate
For information about donating, please contact the Office for Development and Alumni Relations
Email:
jhorton@uab.eduPhone:
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News
Nurse Family Partnership graduates first class
Has seen more than 100 successful births since beginning nearly three years ago.Expanding care to at-risk families
The Nurse Family Partnership of Central Alabama, administered by the UAB School of Nursing, now provides mental health care services to clients to help families achieve emotional wellbeing.Quilts give comfort through community
Community groups donate quilts for first-time mothers in Nurse-Family Partnership programMore Nurse-Family Partnership News
Contact Us
Candace Knight, PhD, RN
Director, Nurse Family Partnership of Central Alabama
Email: knightc@uab.edu
Call or Text: 205.597.3741
