NYC Nurse-Family Partnership E-News Staten Island NFP Gets Creative in
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NYC Nurse-Family Partnership E-News Staten Island NFP Gets Creative in
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! NYC NFP ON TWITTER Follow us at @nycnfp, and tweet about us with hashtag #nycnfp! NYC NFP ON FACEBOOK 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). ____________ To join our mailing list, send an email with "subscribe" in the subject line to [email protected]. Have you visited NYC NFP on Facebook lately? Click above or go to www.facebook.com/nycnfp to interact with us, "like" us and help spread the word about NYC NFP! 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. 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