The Nurse-Family Partnership is a community health program aimed at transforming the lives of first-time moms and their children. By implementing home visits to low-income, first-time moms, registered nurses are able to provide them with the care and support they need to ensure a healthy pregnancy as well as to properly care for their children and to become self-sufficient economically. Starting from pregnancy until the baby turns two, Nurse-Family Partnership forms trusting relationships with first-time moms to make them more confident and empowered to seek a better life for them and their children.

Founded on the works of David Olds, a pediatrics, preventive medicine, and psychiatry professor at the University of Colorado, the Nurse-Family Partnership was first administered to local communities in Dayton, Ohio and some counties in Wyoming in 1996. Within the same year, funding from the US Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention helped support the program’s dissemination to Los Angeles, Fresno, Clearwater, St. Louis, and Oklahoma City.