Breaking the Cycle: How Economic Supports Strengthen Families and Break Down Barriers-Webinar Resources
This recording and slide deck are from the second webinar in the Whole Child, Whole Families, Whole System Webinar Series.
Family economic well-being goes beyond merely having money; it includes access to essential resources like safe housing, nutritious food, and health care, as well as the emotional security that comes from financial stability. When families have what they need, they experience less stress, create more stable home environments, and can better support their children’s healthy growth and development. This is particularly important during pregnancy and the formative first 1,000 days of a child’s life.
In this webinar, we explore how economic supports, rather than short-term fixes, can provide a foundation for long-term stability. Economic supports include tax credits, raising the minimum wage, cash transfer programs, or home visiting programs that help families meet their basic needs. The webinar features state leaders who highlight the power of systemic change in breaking cycles of hardship and ensuring that families and communities can truly thrive.
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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.
How to Build a Bridge: Policy, Practice, and Relationships in Cross-Systems Collaboration: Webinar Resources
Video March 19, 2025
This recording and resources are from the webinar How to Build a Bridge: Policy, Practice, and Relationships in Cross-Systems Collaboration, part of the Moving Away from Family Separation: Cross-systems Strategies to Support Young Children and Families at Risk of Child Welfare Involvement webinar series.