Franklin County Home Health Agency is celebrating the first graduating class in our Franklin, Lamoille and Grande Isle County Nurse-Family Partnership Program on Tuesday, June 2 at Church of the Rock on Fairfax Road, St. Albans. Six young mothers and their children from Franklin and Lamoille County have completed this 2 ½ year, evidence-based community health program that helps transform the lives of vulnerable mothers pregnant with their first child.
Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) participant mothers and their babies, NFP Home Visiting staff, and supporters from around the state will celebrate the successful completion of this 2 ½ year program by six young families at Church of the Rock, Fairfax Road, St. Albans, at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2.
The graduation speaker, Dr. Breena Holmes, Director of Maternal and Child Health, Vermont Department of Health, will address an audience of families, friends and community supporters. Franklin County Home Health Agency was one of Vermont’s early adopters of this program.
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a voluntary prevention program that provides nurse home visitation services to low-income, first-time mothers. Nurses begin home visits early in the mother’s pregnancy and continue visitation until the child’s second birthday. Nurses provide support, education and counseling on health, behavioral and self-sufficiency issues.
NFP is one the most rigorously tested program of its kind. Randomized controlled trials conducted over the past 35 years demonstrate multi-generational outcomes for families and their communities. Mothers and children who have participated in the program have consistently demonstrated significantly improved prenatal health, fewer subsequent pregnancies, increased maternal employment, improved child school readiness, reduced involvement in crime, and less child abuse, neglect and injuries.
In 2012 Nurse Family Partnership was implemented in Franklin and Lamoille counties, and subsequently Grand Isle County, under the direction of Franklin County Home Health Agency. Twelve out of fourteen Vermont counties now offer this program. Since 2012 NFP has touched the lives of 331 Vermont women who have delivered 209 babies and those numbers are changing every day. Nurse-Family Partnership serves families in 43 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information about Nurse-Family Partnership in Franklin, Lamoille and Grand Isle Counties, contact Rhonda Desrochers, (802) 527-7531, rdesrochers@fchha.org.
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