Nursing-Legal Partnership

 

In Philadelphia, a team of lawyers works hand-in-hand with nurses who educate and support new parents through the evidence-based Nurse-Family Partnership and Parents As Teachers home visiting programs. As nurses educate parents, lawyers offer concrete support to families in crisis. 

Our interdisciplinary team of lawyers and public health nurses works to ensure that pregnant women and mothers have the opportunity to raise their children in safe, healthy homes, with uninterrupted health insurance coverage and other benefits. Services are available to mothers of young children with unmet legal needs, including issues related to housing, income, education, employment, immigration and domestic violence.

Nursing-Legal Partnership Goals

  • Serve at least 300 mothers and children
  • Improve housing conditions for families living in unsafe and substandard homes
  • Ensure pregnant women and children have health insurance
  • Improve economic well-being of vulnerable families
  • Decrease toxic maternal stress
  • Evaluate program results
  • Build a movement for statewide and national replication

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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.