Year in Review: 2024

As we approach the new year, we get to reflect on how we have grown since 2024 began.

Throughout the year, we welcomed nearly 18 new staff members, three new programs, and cultivated more partnerships with aligned community organizations. FAIR project referrals have increased exponentially in the past several months, and we have supported a record number of nursing student placements within NNCC.

The items below capture just a few highlights from 2024 and, as we enter 2025, we aim to reach more families with high-quality services, advance policies that support the nursing workforce and the community we serve, and foster our own workforce to ensure they have what they need to optimize the growth that we experienced in this past year. You can read more highlights here.

Advocacy Wins of the Year

This year, we had the opportunity to participate with Philadelphia’s Shared Safety Coordinating Council in the development of trauma-informed emergency room discharge paperwork for people who were seen for intimate partner violence-related ailments and injuries. This document is currently being translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Khmer, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Sanskrit, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. When the translation is completed, we will be sharing the new discharge paperwork with Philadelphia healthcare centers and hospitals.?

In August, the Department of Education introduced new clarifying Title IX language, which included protections for lactation. The Coalition for Lactation-Friendly Schools responded by creating a toolkit for schools to become lactation friendly – to guide school administrators through finding and making space and accommodations for parenting students to pump milk. The Coalition for Lactation-Friendly Schools will publish, print, and distribute this toolkit to numerous schools throughout Pennsylvania.

Program Transitions

This year, NNCC welcomed two new programs transitioning from other organizations: the Philly-MontCo Family Center (formerly Carson’s Valley Children Association) and the Post-Partum Visit Program (former Visiting Nurses Association).

The Philly MontCo Family Center serves approximately 200 pregnant and parenting families per year through the Parents-as-Teachers curriculum in the Norristown area and north Philadelphia. The Post-Partum Visit Program connects individuals who have missed their six-week post-partum appointment with a registered nurse or nurse midwife to reconnect them with care during this critical period.

Both programs expand NNCC’s ability to support pregnant and parenting families in Philadelphia and within Pennsylvania with support and tools to advance their goals and improve their health and well-being.

NTTAP and Accreditation

The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. In 2024, we provided nursing continuing professional development credits for 22 courses or course series. We also hosted 31 trainings and saw 3,107 participants over the year.

Nurse Home Visiting Programs

This year, our two nurse home visiting programs, Nurse-Family Partnership and Mabel Morris, served 677 families in total and conducted around 6,500 visits. This means that every two weeks, 677 families in Philadelphia met with their nurse home visitors to create and work on their goals - whether in development, health, education, or economic self-sufficiency.?

Every month, families in the program also have the opportunity to participate in events hosted by NNCC and their program. With 18 events to attend through the year, ranging from learning about healthy food with The Food Trust to celebrating the end of the year with Mister John’s Music, families

Throughout the year, our families could also participate in advocacy opportunities. They joined us at the National Home Visiting Summit in Washington, D.C., and spoke in front of legislators in Pennsylvania and around the nation about the programs and how they have helped shape their lives.