Canadian Nurse Family Partnership

The Nurse-Family Partnership is a program of prenatal and infancy home visiting for young, socially disadvantaged, first-time mothers. This nurse home visitation program has been evaluated in three randomized controlled trials in the US. A summary of the evidence supporting the Nurse-Family Partnership program can be accessed through www.nursefamilypartnership.org.

Canadian Nurse-Family Partnership

The goals of the Nurse-Family Partnership Program are:

To improve pregnancy outcomes
To improve child health and development
To improve parental life-course

In 2008, McMaster University and the City of Hamilton Public Health Services initiated the first Canadian NFP pilot project.

To transfer this best available evidence for improving important maternal-child health outcomes into an applied public health setting, it is imperative to first evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention in this new context. Without these steps, there is a risk that the magnitude of effects measured in the US-based clinical trials will not be repeated with replication in the applied setting.

Funding to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the NFP Pilot Project in Hamilton, ON has been received from:

Catholic Children's Aid Society of Hamilton
Children's Aid Society of Hamilton
City of Hamilton Public Health Services PHRED Program
Community Child Abuse Council
Hamilton Community Foundation
McMaster Child Health Research Institute
Ministry of Children & Youth Services
Nursing Research Fund, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Nursing Secretariat, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO

The Canadian NFP Network is located at the Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University.

McMaster University
City of Hamilton Public Health Services
Offord Centre for Child Studies

In the News

Grassroots nursing for impoverished parents featuring NFP

Canadian NFP Network Newsletters

Volume 3, Issue 1NFP Education for British Columbia PHNs

Volume 2, Issue 3 A Father's Experience in the Nurse-Family Partnership

Volume 2, Issue 2 British Columbia Gives At-Risk Families the Healthiest Start to Life

Volume 2, Issue 1 City of Hamilton Awards NFP Team in First City Manager's Award for Public Service Excellence in Hamilton

Volume 1, Issue 5 Acceptability of the Nurse-Family Partnership to Stakeholders in Hamilton, Ontario

Past Newsletters