Nurturing Care Family Navigator

The Nurturing Care Family Navigator (NCFN) is a comprehensive barrier-focused and long-term family-centered intervention that will offer screenings for food insecurity, referrals to community resources, and follow-up with families experiencing very low or low food security in the past 12 months. The goal of the NCFN is to increase knowledge (cognitive factors) and self-efficacy (behavioral factors) to navigate barriers across the four pillars of food insecurity by securing enrollment and sustaining engagement with a set of community nurturing care services (environmental factors) to improve levels of food security, and ultimately maternal-child health and nutrition outcomes of low-income families during the postpartum phase.