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Nurse-Family Partnership Celebrates 10 Years of Replication in Pennsylvania!
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| Nurse-Family Partnership and P/PV celebrated a decade of home-visiting programs for low-income Pennsylvania families at an event in Harrisburg. P/PV President Nadya K. Shmavonian spoke at the event, along with Department of Public Welfare Secretary Harriet Dichter and Former Pennsylvania First Lady Michele Ridge (pictured above with a group of nurses). Nurse-Family Partnership home visitors currently serve more than 3,000 families a day in 40 of the state's 67 counties. To see more photos of the event, visit P/PV's Facebook page. |
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Nurse-Family Partnership Featured in PBS Series
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| On January 4, the Nurse-Family Partnership was featured in the first installment of the three-part PBS series, This Emotional Life. This episode explored the relationships and social connections that are central to people's well-being. (Check your local listings for additional air times.) P/PV manages the replication of Nurse-Family Partnership throughout the northeastern US. |
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Growing What Works: Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania's Nurse-Family Partnership Initiative
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by Jennifer Collins Stavrakos and Geri Summerville with Laura E. Johnson
September 2009, 42 pages
Using the Pennsylvania Nurse-Family Partnership experience as a case study, this report provides key lessons for policymakers and funders interested in bringing proven models to a statewide scale. Growing What Works also details best practices for selecting implementing agencies; fostering a sense of community among geographically dispersed sites; monitoring program results to promote quality; and engaging local administrators and site leaders.
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Overview
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P/PV has been involved with a number of programs designed to bring quality health services and health education into schools and homes in low-income areas, often as part of comprehensive community initiatives.
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Recent Publications
Major Initiatives
Children's Futures
P/PV is conducting an evaluation of this Trenton, NJ, initiative, which aims to increase access to prenatal and other health services, parenting skills education and childcare.
Replication of Nurse-Family Partnership
Found to produce substantial and enduring improvements in the health and well-being of low-income first-time mothers and their children, this program now operates in over half of all U.S. states.
Replication of Plain Talk
The Plain Talk program seeks to increase parental involvement and adult/teen communication about sex. P/PV developed Plain Talk's national replication, including the creation of implementation and training materials, site selection and data collection.
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