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Physical Health & Nutrition
Empowering Professionals to Support Young Children
Early Development
Supporting Parents to Prevent Childhood Trauma
Child CareEconomic Security
Hardships and Joys: Parenting and Pushing for Affordable Child Care
A lot of people think stay-at-home-moms are rich white women but that’s not always the case. For some people it’s more affordable to stay at home than send your kids to daycare.
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Creating Space for Healing
Mental health is not just about mental illness. It's about community, it's about relationships, it's about our everyday interactions.
Child WelfareInfant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Empowering Parents to Navigate the Child Welfare System
An empowered parent invests in their child’s future, a supported parent can be present for their child and a healing parent can heal their child.
Physical Health & Nutrition
Baby Carlie Avoids the Hospital
Sarah is thrilled. Her baby had not eaten like this, ever. Renee, the HealthySteps Specialist, is thrilled too and rushes to find Dr. Prince, who gladly ends her call with hospital admissions.
Racial Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
When Children and Educators Can Both Be Their Truest Selves, That’s Pride
For queer people, it is just a matter of being given the opportunity to exist in spaces we occupy daily, for example, schools. Early childhood educators have the opportunity to start that welcoming journey for those children and their families.
Child Welfare
Transforming the System
My vision is a child welfare system that's a support system and not a reporting system.
Infant and Early Childhood Mental HealthRacial Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Hope and Accountability in IECMH
Investing in early childhood has the potential to improve generations to come in ways that we will not be able to see in our own lifetimes – and the investment is worth the hard work.
Child Welfare
Altering the Course
I thought if I went to a treatment center I would lose my kid. If we can find parents help before they enter the child welfare system, it's going to help in the long-run.
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Child Welfare

Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen on the Importance of Advocacy

Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen's expertise is helping us transform child welfare into the practice of strengthening child and family well-being.
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Child Welfare

Shana King’s Journey with Safe Babies

In partnership with Safe Babies, Shana is using her personal experience in the child welfare system to support families.
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Physical Health & Nutrition

Empowering Professionals to Support Young Children

Pradeep highlights the value in the LEARN professional development offerings.
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Early Development

Supporting Parents to Prevent Childhood Trauma

Teresa Cox-Bates is breaking the cycle of childhood trauma for her children with support from a HealthySteps specialist to understand and process her own upbringing.
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Infant and Early Childhood Mental HealthPhysical Health & Nutrition

Hope’s Journey to Discover Parenting Confidence

Hope was found the HealthySteps program valuable in her life and is advocating so more people can learn about its benefits.
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Child CareEconomic Security

Hardships and Joys: Parenting and Pushing for Affordable Child Care

Jessica is now aiming to give her kids the things she wished for in her own childhood. In a structured early learning environment in her house, she uses the things she learned during her time as an early childhood educator to nurture and teach her own children. She says it’s an honor to be able to stay home, especially as a Black woman who historically have not always had that privilege.
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