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Oct 4, 2017

George Kaiser Family Foundation Continues Initiative to Break Cycle of Poverty in Tulsa

The program’s first phase is underway, and over the next two years it hopes to reach 17,000 children living at or near the poverty level in Tulsa.

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Oct 1, 2017

Getting to Know Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa’s Team Leader

Studio Tulsa Interviews Sophia Pappas, the team leader in charge of introducing and implementing George Kaiser Family Foundation's Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa.

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Sep 25, 2017

Day by Day: “Unadoptable” label is one no child deserves

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption began 25 years ago and believes every child deserves a loving family. “Unadoptable” is unacceptable.

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Sep 15, 2017

City Hospital System Is Expanding Children’s Mental Health Programs

The New York Times reports New York City public hospitals are adopting HealthySteps and other programs that recognize “there’s a continuum in a child’s life—at home, in school, certainly in health care centers.”

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Sep 12, 2017

Home Visiting Programs Are Vital for Maternal and Infant Health

A Center for American Progress issue brief highlights the importance of NFP and the federal Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Visiting program that helps fund it.

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Sep 8, 2017

Discover The Missing Year And Prepare Your Baby For Success In School

Many parents are not aware of just how early their babies’ brains are developing—taking in and responding to experiences in the world in their earliest months, with impacts into the long-term.

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Aug 28, 2017

Strong Roots: Home Visiting Programs Expand Medical Care into Communities

The American Academy of Pediatrics endorses home visits to low-income families and integrating them into pediatric care.

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Aug 21, 2017

Brain Matter Matters: Should We Intervene Well Before Preschool?

A Brookings Institution blog post cites Nurse-Family Partnership as a prime example of a program that can positively affect the cognitive development of at-risk infants.

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Aug 8, 2017

First Statewide Pay-for-Success Program Helps At-Risk Moms

Governing magazine reports on South Carolina’s innovative public-private initiative to quadruple the number of low-income families Nurse-Family Partnership serves.

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Jul 25, 2017

Website Helps Delaware Women Get Free Birth Control, Rides to Health Clinics

The Be Your Own Baby website is a part of the $10 million Delaware Contraceptive Access Now initiative, started by the nonprofit Upstream USA with no government funding.