By Kamelia Tzeneva | Project Lead
Dear supporters and friends of our home-visiting service,
I would like to thank you all on the behalf of the Trust for Social Achievement and the Nurse-Family Partnership team for your support and engagement with our mission. With your help, we are continuing to stand by young economically disadvantaged mothers and to support them in the exciting, but also scary adventure of being a first-time mom.
We would like to proudly share with you one big step that we recently took towards ensuring the sustainability of home-visiting service for vulnerable first-time parents. We recently organized one of our biggest advocacy events so far, gathering over 40 experts and decision-makers around the table to hear from two very special guests: International guests at the roundtable were Ms Carolyn Wilson, Head of Child and Maternal Health Support in the Scottish Government, responsible for the implementation of NFP nationally, and Dr Gena O'Keefe, Consultant to Baltimore’s Strategy for Improving Pregnancy Outcomes, who oversees the successful implementation of NFP at the local level.
The National Round Table brought the wisdom and knowledge gathered over many years of implementing the service in the contexts of the US and Scotland – and what the speakers had to share was truly moving. Ms Wilson shared that in Scotland, research has shown that, once introduced as a national programme, the home-visiting service for vulnerable mothers increased the wellbeing of women and children whose outcomes had not changed for years through the universal service. Talking about the US experience, Dr. Gena O'Keefe portrayed how thanks to the intervention and the coordinated efforts of all stakeholders, after only ten years of Nurse-Family Partnership in Baltimore, an impressive 20% drop in infant mortality in the city was achieved.
The Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy Ms. Nadia Klissurska, who opened the event, expressed her support for NFP and stressed that it is one of the most effective interventions related to maternal health care. Support for the national dissemination of the program was also expressed from key experts in the field, including doctors’ and midwifes’ associations and university professors.
We are continuing forward towards our goal, knowing that with your help, the support of our international colleagues and forward-thinking decision makers, we are on the right track!
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