A Developmental Approach to Child Welfare Services for Infants and Toddlers

Part of the Resource Collection: Child Welfare and Early Childhood: Cross-Systems Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Young Children and Their Families Website

By: Zero to Three February 20, 2012

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This resource is a companion piece to the report - A Call to Action on Behalf of Maltreated Infants and Toddlers. This comprehensive assessment tool helps states and counties examine ways to embed a quality, developmental approach to serving infants and toddlers in the child welfare system, as well as meet the new federal requirements for state child welfare plans.

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