Our Mission
Nurse-Family Partnership positively transforms the lives of vulnerable babies, mothers and families.
Our Vision
A future where all children are healthy, families thrive, communities prosper and the cycle of poverty is broken.
Our Values
With an intentional and intense sense of urgency to change lives, we will:
- Be tenacious caregivers by bringing passion and excellence to our nursing practice and professional services
- Actively listen to and persistently serve our families and our implementation network
- Provide leadership in the field of evidence-based and home visitation programs
- Seek and find solutions
- Innovate and stay relevant
- Translate and enhance the science of pregnancy, brain and early childhood development to serve vulnerable babies and families
- Promote health equity and eliminate disparities to improve outcomes for the moms and babies we serve now and beyond
- Respect and honor differences in race, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and veteran status
- Be respectful, collaborative and tenacious in all of our interactions with each other and on behalf of our families and implementation network
- Do more with less
Project Director
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HIPPY Assistant Coordinator
Leona Garcia,
Is the Project Director of the Texas Home Visiting Program under the Coalition of Health Service in Amarillo that works with at risk families and children in their homes aging from prenatal and birth to 5 years of age to help parents become self-sufficient and give children a boost to get ready for school. Kacie started at the inception of the Texas Home Visiting Program in 2012. By way of background, Kacie worked with pregnant teens, parents, and their children at two of the local high schools for ten years under AISD and Region 16. In addition, she worked in direct services as a Home Visitor for Region 16 Early Head Start for 3 years. She has a passion for meeting families where they are, and in turn empowering them to become successful. If Kacie is not working, she is watching her only daughter, Taytum, play basketball, whom is now a college student athlete, freshman, at WTAMU and on the Lady Buff Basketball team. Kacie holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Occupational Education from Wayland Baptist University.
