Address:  300 Central, Springfield, MO 65802

Telephone:  417.874.1265

FAX:  417.874.1285

Website: http://www.ci.springfield.mo.us/health/bbx.html

Purpose

Building Blocks is a Nurse-Family Partnership program that works with first-time parents to help them develop effective parenting skills and build resilient families. The program is funded through Springfield Public Schools' Safe Schools Healthy Students Initiative.

Goals: 

• To help women improve the outcomes of pregnancy by helping them improve their health behaviors.
• To help mothers improve their child's health and development by helping them provide more responsible and competent care for their children.
• To help mothers become economically self-sufficient by helping them develop a vision for their own future, plan future pregnancies, continue their education and find jobs. 

Population Served

First-time mothers of any age.

As of 8/06

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