NNCC is committed to protecting and expanding funding for Home Visiting programs (MIECHV) with the understanding that home visiting programs have a strong evidence base that shows positive health outcomes, and that these programs are important to families across the country.
NNCC advocates for federal and state funding through the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program, which helps to support our work through the Philadelphia Nurse Family Partnership and Mabel Morris Parents as Teachers Program. These evidence-based models of care implemented in a nurse-led structure at NNCC provide crucial support for under-resourced families in our home city of Philadelphia and across the country.
NNCC’s Nursing-Legal Partnership empowers public health nurse home visitors to advocate on behalf of their patients at the local level. Our nurses have lobbied for lead safety, tenant protections for public health threats like bed bugs, and the rights of lactating students to stay in school.
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.