Plan of Safe Care: Making Safety Policy a Strategy for Child and Family Well-being Webinar Resources

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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