St. Luke's Nurse-Family Partnership Program

Our speaker will be Kelly Berk, program manager for St. Luke’s Nurse-Family partnership (NFP)

·      NFP is a home visitation program for low-income mothers starting early in pregnancy.

·      NFP has been in the Lehigh valley starting in Bethlehem in 2001. In 2009 Allentown Bethlehem and Easton joined to create one larger program. In 2019 we expanded to serve an additional 25 clients allowing us to care for 275 and most recently in 2022 we were able to expand again by 1 nurse bringing our total to 300 clients.

·      This program is based on over 45 years of research

·      Kelly Berk has been working in public health and maternal child health nursing for over 23 years.