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Assessing Infants and Toddlers In Your Area: Use Data to Create a Community Profile

Planning Tool
June 7, 2022
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The purpose of this tool is to help you hone in on the unique characteristics, strengths, and needs of infants, toddlers, and families in your community. It includes questions designed to help you focus on creating healthy starts at birth, support families with infants and toddlers, and increase access to high-quality infant and toddler child care.

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State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States

Report December 4, 2024

This comprehensive child welfare resource from Child Trends provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, permanency, and older youth in care. The data are essential to help policymakers understand how many children and youth come in contact with the child welfare system, and why. States can use this information to ensure that their child welfare systems support the safety, stability, and well-being of all families in their state.

Ensuring Children in Foster Care get the Supports They Need: Innovating Our Way to Solutions

Blog November 26, 2024

Since 2020, BUILD Initiative has explored how the child welfare system and other early childhood systems (i.e., health, mental health, housing, early intervention, transportation, economic support, early care and education and all the child-and-family serving systems) can align and work together to achieve better outcomes for children and families. According to Dr. Cynthia Tate, who leads the project, several states are developing promising programs, policies, and strategies that can inspire other states.