Philly SPROUT Program

Program Overview

Philly SPROUT (Philadelphia Supporting Parenting Relationships through Outreach, Understanding, and Training) is designed to enhance and support child development and improve infant and early childhood mental health. The program will also enhance the capacity of child and family service providers through infant and early childhood mental health training and learning collaboratives. Philly SPROUT helps children ages 0-5 who may face a higher likelihood of developing social-emotional difficulties and caregivers who may benefit from support to foster positive parent-child interactions. 

Philly SPROUT is funded by a five-year grant from SAMHSA, with the Joseph J. Peters Institute (JJPI) as the lead grantee in collaboration with NNCC. Learn more about JJPI’s work here.

Training for Providers

Training is open to providers in child- and family-serving programs looking to build on their strengths in child development, including the following four sectors: child welfare, early intervention, early childhood education, and home visiting. Focus areas include:

  • Recognizing and addressing mental health needs.
  • Facilitating cross-sector collaboration for comprehensive child and family support.
  • Topics and interventions that benefit children and their support systems.

Information on additional virtual training opportunities in 2025 will be added on our NNCC Training Opportunities page.

Philly SPROUT Summit

On May 17, NNCC hosted the First Annual Philly SPROUT Summit, a full-day training focused on strengthening cross-sector collaboration to support the infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) workforce. 

Learn about the Summit!

 

Additional Resources

Philly SPROUT Informational Flyer

Read more about Philly SPROUT on our Policy Blog.

Referrals: If you are a participant in NNCC's Mabel Morris or Nurse Family Partnership programs and are interested in a referral to the program, please reach out to your assigned nurse home visitor.

 

TCPI Power Packs

TCPI Power Packs

As the only professional nursing organization involved in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) we were part of a collective of 10 professional associations charged to assist over 140,000 clinicians in improving how care is delivered by providing technical assistance support for integrating quality and process improvements, and by building on and spreading existing change methodologies, practice transformation tools, published literature, and technical assistance programs.

In collaboration with other SANs we developed a number of Power Packs to spread the transformational work undertaken by clinicians and practices nationally.

Each Power Pack presents a specific service delivery challenge and the steps taken by the spotlighted practice to address the challenge. Power Packs provide a set of change tactics and resources from the SANs and other professional associations that clinicians can use to address a similar challenge within their own practices.