Three NFP Goals
Nurse-Family Partnership's three goals during each visit are:
- Help clients obtain prenatal care from their physician
- Help clients reduce their use of cigarettes, alcohol and illegal drugs
- Teach clients about healthy nutrition during pregnancy
- Help parents provide more competent care of their children in the first two years of life
- Teach parents how to care for their children and provide them with a positive home environment
- Teach parents how to nurture their children
- Help parents create a safe envionment, both within and around the home, were their child can live and thrive
- Teach parents safe and consistent practices of child discipline
- Help parents get proper health care for their child
- Teach young mothers to keep their lives on track and develop a vision for their own future
- Help the mothers make reasoned choices about the partners, family and friends who are involved with their child
- Help mothers plan future pregnancies
- Help mothers continue their education and reach their educational goals
- Help mothers find adequate employment