NYC Nurse-Family Partnership E-News
June 2014
www.nyc.gov/health/nfp
Staten Island NFP Gets Creative in
Celebrating Its Clients
IN THIS ISSUE
NYC NFP’s Staten Island site, run by Richmond Home Need Services under
contract with the NYC Health Department, likes to get creative when it comes to
celebrating its clients. On May 7, the site held its annual Mother’s Day
celebration at the Staten Island Children’s Museum on the grounds of Snug
Harbor Cultural Center. In addition to involving clients in making its traditional
foot- and hand-print keepsakes, several new craft-making activities were
introduced. The more than 15 moms in attendance—along with some dads and
other family members, too—created magnetic refrigerator note-holders out of
clothespins, ribbons and paper for displaying messages, affirmations, recipes or
important notices—such as NFP visit appointment reminders.
Creative in Celebrating Its
Clients
Nurs e Stephanie Ludwig (left) as s is ts Luz Maria Es pinal and Jaime
Aquino in making keeps ake prints of their s on Angel Aquino-Es pinal's
16-month-old feet at Staten Is land NFP's Mother's Day celebration in
May.
Later, nurses Susan Clancy and Denise Flynn led a discussion called "The Many
Hats of Motherhood," in which clients examined their ideas and beliefs about
their new roles as mothers. The group created a "motherhood hat" decorated
with all the thoughts the clients had shared about the many hats a mother
wears. Responses included "protect my baby," "educate and read to my baby,"
"be a role model," "teaching right from wrong," "tell him I love him every day,"
and "I teach him how to care, respect and be humble."
In addition to such inspired craft-making, those in attendance enjoyed
refreshments, each other’s company and dancing—and it wasn’t just the
children whose "happy feet" were unleashed when the Pharrell Williams song
"Happy" was played. Clients also received a gift bag of children’s books, and to
express their appreciation to Simon and Schuster and Baby Buggy, who donated
the books, they made short thank-you videos—one of which was soon to
become an award-winning video (see "Baby Buggy Bonus," below).
• Staten Island NFP Gets
• "Baby Buggy Bonus"
Awarded to Staten Island
NFP
NYC NFP IN THE
NEWS
On June 10th, NYC NFP
Director Roberta HolderMosley, Targeted Citywide
Initiative nurse Linda
Grady and recent program
graduate Marsha Blemur
were guests on BK Live , a
live news and discussion
show on Brooklyn
Independent Television.
The three were
interviewed by the show's
hosts about the work NYC
NFP is doing throughout
the city, and Brooklyn
resident Blemur spoke
movingly about her NFP
experience—her close
relationship with Grady,
who helped her develop a
strong bond with her son,
Noah, and her plans for
the future. Click here to
watch the segment.
NYC NFP TAKES
PART IN
GROUNDBREAKING
NURSE EDUCATION
VIDEO SERIES
Last year, nurses and
clients from two NYC NFP
sites—the Targeted
Left: Staten Is land NFP client Quadia Wood proudly dis plays the
clothes pin refrigerator magnets s he made at the Staten Is land NFP
Mother's Day celebration. Center: A s ampling of s ome of the magnets
made by Staten Is land clients . Right: The "motherhood hat."
Because Staten Island NFP serves clients from both Staten Island and Brooklyn,
the site also hosts an annual "Brooklyn Day" to celebrate its "other-borough"
clients. This year, on the rain date of June 25, approximately ten clients and their
children—plus one dad standing in for a mom who had to work—gathered in
Prospect Park to take part in some of the same activities as their Staten Island
sisters did at Snug Harbor. Despite the heat, everyone enjoyed making foot- and
handprints and clothespin magnets, eating snacks, blowing bubbles and sharing
stories in the park. What better way to celebrate Brooklyn as their home and
themselves as new parents?
Staten Is land NFP's Brooklyn clients relax in the s hade on a warm
s ummer's day at Pros pect Park. Front row, from left: Natonia Cazaubon
with daughter Amara, Crys tal Vann with daughter Kierra, and Beverly
Fullerton and daughter Danyelle. Back row from left: Kes ter Shelbourne
with s on Korey, Natas ha Guls ton and daughter Kaylee, Eltude Vilbrun
with twins Jacob and Jas on, and Irma Labios a with s on Max.
"Baby Buggy Bonus" Awarded to Staten
Island NFP
As mentioned in April’s E-News, NYC NFP has enjoyed a rewarding partnership
with nonprofit group Baby Buggy for the last eight years. Recently, the
organization—which distributes new and gently used baby items to families in
need—instituted a contest among its partner organizations. Each month, a "Baby
Buggy Bonus" email is sent out, inviting community partners to send in thankyou notes, photos and other expressions of appreciation for donations received,
with the chance to win one of three special donated "prizes". For the video
recorded at its Mother’s Day celebration (see above), in which clients displaying
their donated books shouted "Thank you, Baby Buggy!" in unison, Staten Island
NFP was awarded one of the May bonus items—a beautiful upholstered glider
chair to be given to one of its clients. A few weeks later, the chair was delivered
to client Maria Guzman, who demonstrated her gratitude in her own video (click
here to watch it). Getting the chair into Guzman’s apartment posed a challenge
for her nurse, Denise Flynn, and Nurse Supervisor and Program Director Jo-Ellen
Citywide Initiative (TCI) and
Bronx NFP, run under
contract with the Health
Department by Visiting
Nurse Service of New York
—assisted the NFP National
Service Office (NSO) in
creating the organization's
first nurse education
videos. Produced by
filmmaker, nurse and NSO
board member Dr. Susan
Hagedorn with help from
nurses and clients from
several NFP sites around
the country, these
professional development
videos model nurse/client
interaction techniques.
They also include a
sample case conference,
featuring members of TCI
Team 2. The videos are
set to be released at the
end of this month, when
they will be made
available online to nurses,
supervisors and staff at
NFP implementing
agencies nationwide.
NYC NFP is very proud of
the role it played in
making this education
series happen, and would
like to thank former VNSNY
Nurse Supervisor Connie
Prescott; VNSNY Nurse
Supervisors Clarissa Igle
and Takiysha McLeod; TCI
Nurse Supervisor Roberta
Greengold; former nurse
Shaneeka Clarke; nurses
Gracieuse Arnauld,
Dorothie Belgrade, Lisa
Eng, Abby Goldstein, Linda
Grady, Femida
Mohamedali and Dorothy
Valcin; and NYC NFP's
"star" clients for giving
generously of their time to
help current and future
NFP nurses serve first-time
moms even more adeptly!
Brannigan, who together had to remove the front door using, as Brannigan put it,
"screwdrivers, a hammer and NFP muscle." But soon Guzman was feeding her
three-month-old son, Noah, and rocking him to sleep in their comfortable new
chair. NYC NFP is grateful, as always, to Baby Buggy for helping meet some of its
clients’ most tangible needs, and proud of Staten Island NFP for employing its
creativity yet again on behalf of its clients!
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Staten Is land NFP client Maria Guzman (left) holds s leeping s on Noah in
her new glider delivered to (and through) her door by her nurs e, Denis e
Flynn (right).
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ABOUT US
The Nurse-Family
Partnership (NFP) is an
evidence-based,
nationwide nurse home
visiting program
committed to improving
the health, well-being and
self-sufficiency of lowincome first-time mothers
and their children (national
NFP website). The program
is voluntary and there is
no cost to the client. NYC
NFP is the largest urban
program in the country,
having served more
than 11,000 clients since
its inception in 2003 and
currently serving more
than 1,700 clients across
all five boroughs.
The New York City Nurse-Family Partnership is administered by the NYC Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene, which contracts with the following agencies
to provide services: Harlem Hospital Center , Public Health Solutions,
Richmond Home Need Services , SCO Family of Services and
Visiting Nurse Service of New York . The program is funded by New York City and State as well as with
federal Medicaid, MIECHV (Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program) and TANF dollars.
In addition, since 2003 it has received generous support from dedicated individual donors and private
foundations, including the Altman Foundation, The Arthur Foundation, The Dunn Foundation,
the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence , the New York State Health Foundation , Newman's Own
Foundation, The Pinkerton Foundation, Robin Hood, the Samberg Family Foundation, Schwartz
Cousins Fund, The Edith Glick Shoolman Children’s Foundation and Starr International
Foundation.
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