The Foundation for Delaware County

The Foundation for Delaware County’s Family Village improves Delaware County families’ birth outcomes, maternal, child, and adolescent health, parenting capacity, and overall family well-being and self-sufficiency. In 2010, the Foundation’s Healthy Start program, in collaboration with HELP: MLP, was one of three programs nationwide to receive funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration to integrate attorneys into Healthy Start to increase family advocacy.  Since then, HELP: MLP’s partnership with the Foundation has expanded. Today, HELP: MLP collaborates with the Family Village’s Healthy Start, Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), Delco First, and Housing Opportunities for Equity Program (HOPE) programs. 

National Nurse-Led Care Consortium

The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium works to strengthen community health through quality, compassionate, and collaborative nurse-led care. HELP: MLP partnered with NNCC in 2016 to establish the first Nursing-Legal Partnership model in the nation, which provided integrated no-cost legal services to families participating in NNCC’s Nurse-Family Partnership program. In 2020, HELP: MLP and NNCC established the Family Advocacy and Integrated Resources (FAIR) Project, which expanded the work of the Nursing-Legal Partnership to include an emergency Family Support Fund. The FAIR Project now serves families participating in home visiting programs across the City of Philadelphia.