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The
Children First Program is a nurse home visiting program that
follows the Dr. David Old’s Nurse Family Partnership Model.
Highly trained nurses make home visits to low resource,
first time parents teaching them about pregnancy, nutrition,
fetal development and how to care for themselves and their
baby after delivery. It is a voluntary program, and is
offered at no cost by the Oklahoma City County Health
Department. Clients must be enrolled prior to 29 weeks gestation. The nurse and client schedule weekly,
bi-weekly and monthly visits until the baby reaches his or
her second birthday. The mom and baby then graduate from
the Children First Program.
The
nurses follow well-developed and well-researched program
protocols that focus on the following domains:
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