Addressing the Needs of Young Children in Child Welfare: Part C-Early Intervention Services
Early intervention services can help young children with developmental delays or disabilities and their families overcome challenges and achieve improved well-being and outcomes. The Part C referral provisions in the 2003 reauthorization of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) and in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA) opened the door to an effective partnership between the child welfare and early intervention systems, which may benefit children birth to age 3 involved in substantiated cases of abuse or neglect. This partnership can expand the array of supports and resources for children and their caregivers in order to help children remain safely in their homes, stabilize placements, and improve well-being. It also can help child welfare staff in assessment and permanency planning.
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Maternal and Child Health and Mental Well-Being: Cornerstones of a Thriving Community: Webinar Resources
Archived Webinar April 16, 2025
This webinar recording and slide deck are part of the Whole Child, Whole Family, Whole System Webinar Series.
Plan of Safe Care: Making Safety Policy a Strategy for Child and Family Well-being Webinar Resources
Archived Webinar April 9, 2025
These resources are from the final webinar of the series “Moving Away from Family Separation: Cross-Systems strategies to Support Young Children and Families at Risk of Child Welfare Involvement."
Early Childhood Systems Building: Whole Child, Whole Family, Whole System
Video April 3, 2025
Early childhood professionals recognize that the child- and family-serving systems that are not generally considered to be under the umbrella of the early childhood system—like housing, economic development, and transportation—are less often viewed as opportunities for or barriers to child and family well-being. Each of these systems, and how they interact with one another, impacts a child’s outcome. It is up to early childhood systems builders to identify the barriers to positive outcomes that result from an issue with any of the elements within the overall system. This is one of the early childhood systems builders’ greatest challenges, as these barriers are deeply interwoven with our country’s history and ongoing practice of discrimination and disinvestment. This video describes how BUILD views an Early Childhood System that focuses on the whole child, the whole family, and whole systems.