The Floor Beneath Them: What Stability Makes Possible for Babies and Families

A baby learns the world through what repeats: the same arms, the same bedtime song, the same voice answering back. When a family has secure housing, enough income, and food on the table, those small rituals have room to happen. When any one of those supports slips, everything else gets harder to hold.

Join us for Building Blocks for Brighter Futures, a five-part webinar series on policies and programs that support healthy births and help families stay economically secure. The first webinar, The Floor Beneath Them: What Stability Makes Possible for Babies and Families, asks what it would take to put a steady floor beneath every family.

Dr. Lindsey Burghardt from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University will walk us through the recent paper, From Resources to Routines: The Importance of Stability in the Developmental Environment. We will then hear from state- and community-level programs that prioritize families’ stability by building on the strengths they already have. These programs trust parents to know what their babies need. They surround families with support from their own communities. They honor the culture and traditions families carry. And they work to keep parents and babies together.

Join us to explore how policy, practice, and funding can protect the connection, community, and joy that allow babies and families to thrive.

Live Spanish interpretation will be available for all webinars.

Register for The Floor Beneath Them: What Stability Makes Possible for Babies and Families on Thursday, November 12, 2:00–3:30 PM ET.

Save the Dates for Future Webinars

All webinars in the series will be held on the second Thursday of the month from 2:00–3:30 PM ET.

• Thursday, November 12, 2026
• Thursday, January 14, 2027
• Thursday, March 11, 2027
• Thursday, May 13, 2027
• Thursday, July 8, 2027