The Texas Nurse-Family Partnership is a free, voluntary program where nurses partner with first-time mothers to improve prenatal care and provide one-on-one child development education and counseling.

Service Population: First-time, low-income mothers and their families from their 28th week of pregnancy through their child's second birthday.

Participating clients receive one-on-one home visits from a registered professional nurse. The visits begin early in the client’s pregnancy (with program enrollment no later than the 28th week of pregnancy) and conclude when the client’s child turns 2 years old. NFP is designed to improve (1) prenatal and maternal health and birth outcomes, (2) child health and development, and (3) families’ economic self-sufficiency and maternal life course development.