Plan of Safe Care: Making Safety Policy a Strategy for Child and Family Well-being Webinar Resources
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."
Most new parents leave the hospital and enter the sometimes-scary world of being responsible for the safety and well-being of an infant. For parents who struggle with substance use and addiction, underlying stressors can make an already challenging time more difficult. A Plan of Safe Care is a family-centered plan designed to promote the safety and well-being of birthing parents and their infants with prenatal substance exposure.
Plans of Safe Care support families impacted by perinatal substance use or substance use disorders by:
- Ensuring the parent(s) and infant remain safe and healthy
- Working with the family to meet identified health and substance use needs
- Connecting the family to resources in the community
- Improving care coordination across systems
In this 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,” learn about how two states designed preventive strategies for their Plans of Safe Care through public-private partnerships and the input of parent voices, Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families and their partners at WithinReach; and Colorado Department of Human Services—Division of Child Welfare, and their partner Illuminate Colorado.
Panelists
- Kate Agyei Yeboah, Manager of Perinatal Partnerships, WithinReach
- Alysia Chang, CAPTA and Federal Funding Administrator, Colorado Division of Child Welfare
- Erinn Havig, State Innovation Specialist, Infant Toddler Court Program
- Kelli Sutton, Director of Behavioral Health Initiatives, Illuminate CO
- Maria Zdzieblowski, LICSW, Director of Service Continuum
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Moving Away from Family Separation: Cross-Systems Strategies to Support Young Children at Risk of Child Welfare Involvement
Report March 12, 2026
Between October 2024 and April 2025, the BUILD Initiative hosted a six-part webinar series, offered through BUILD’s Prenatal-to-Three Capacity Building Hub. This report provides key learnings and highlights from the webinar series.
Community Births – A Solution to Maternity Care Deserts
Archived Webinar March 3, 2026
According to the March of Dimes 2024 report, "Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the United States," 1,104 counties, or about 35% of the nation’s 3,142 counties, are designated as Maternity Care Deserts.
Evidence for Expanded Access to Head Start and Early Head Start
Blog February 27, 2026
Head Start and Early Head Start have been proven effective for supporting young children’s development, and their parents, for many years. But did you know that Head Start and Early Head Start can reduce child maltreatment and child welfare system involvement?