Safe Babies
Safe Babies transforms child welfare into the practice of child well-being by strengthening families, parents, and caregivers experiencing extreme hardships to help prevent the need for babies and toddlers to enter the child welfare system.
Safe Babies works to align and coordinate early childhood systems, with the goal of keeping families together whenever possible.
Parent leaders with lived experience are involved — from policy to practice — to infuse equity and parent voice in all aspects of the program. Safe Babies is now active in 140 sites across 30 states.
Hear from Heidi, a Safe Babies parent leader striving to create systemic change and disrupt intergenerational cycles of trauma and poverty for families.
Supporting Child Welfare
Provided technical assistance to 5,624 professionals, court personnel and community partners through 954 training events to improve and deepen their support of children and families in the child welfare system.
National Programs
Expanded its national reach by supporting program implementation in 17 states.
Advancing Pediatric Care
Hosted our 17th annual Cross Sites convening with 400 leaders in child welfare, with a focus on building capacity and strengthening connections.
Partnerships
Partnered with Child Trends on a report on the Family First Act, including state efforts to build comprehensive systems prioritizing the prevention of child welfare involvement and promoting child and family well-being.
New Tools
Developed a new policy scan tool to help states identify key partnerships, champions and funding related to infant-toddler court teams.
