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Safe Babies Program Overview

The Safe Babies program by ZERO TO THREE aims to keep families together by preventing the need for babies and toddlers to enter out-of-home care. It focuses on building coordinated early childhood systems that provide safe, stable, and nurturing environments for children under three, addressing social and health inequities. The program emphasizes empowering parents, promoting racial equity, and ensuring healthy development through timely resources and support.

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Safe Babies Program Overview

The Safe Babies program by ZERO TO THREE aims to keep families together by preventing the need for babies and toddlers to enter out-of-home care. It focuses on building coordinated early childhood systems that provide safe, stable, and nurturing environments for children under three, addressing social and health inequities. The program emphasizes empowering parents, promoting racial equity, and ensuring healthy development through timely resources and support.

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Program Overview

Providing babies, toddlers, and


their parents or caregivers the safe
connections and supports needed
to remain safe, stable, and healthy

Safe Babies, a program of ZERO TO


THREE, works to keep families together by
preventing the need for babies and toddlers
to enter out-of-home care, or for further
involvement in the child welfare system.

EVERY BABY HAS UNLIMITED POTENTIAL


Positive experiences and emotionally nourishing relationships are critical to the
healthy development and lifelong well-being of babies and toddlers. Yet, due to the
adverse childhood experiences and systemic social and health inequities faced by
some parents, children under the age of 3 enter the child welfare system at a higher
rate than any other age group.

WHAT WE DO
Build coordinated and aligned early childhood systems to support a
SAFER path for families to flourish and thrive

OUR FOCUS (SAFER)

SERVE ADVANCE FOCUS EMPOWER REDESIGN


as an entry point for child and family on the babies’ parents to lead with policies and
community access to well-being by developmental their voices and practices to
align a continuum of providing the need for safe, stable, lived experiences promote racial
timely and equitable resources and and nurturing early to transform child equity and social
services for all families, supports that relationships during welfare practice and justice
regardless of their babies and toddlers all decision-making advocate for fellow
circumstances need for a strong parents across the
start in life country
Program Overview

IMPACT
Meeting the immediate needs of babies and toddlers through an innovative,
team-based approach that strengthens early relationships with parents and
caregivers, ensuring healthy development and well-being

FAMILIES REMAIN EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS HAVE A SPACE


TOGETHER DEVELOPMENT STAYS ON TRACK TO CONVENE

Keeping babies and Promoting timely screening Collaborating on a


toddlers with their and assessment for shared mission and
families whenever developmental needs and vision, with children and
possible services families at the center

Connecting children Increasing medical home Prioritizing parents’


and their families with access for preventative voice and leadership
timely and equitable pediatric care within the team
services and supports
Prioritizing family time Developing strategies
Strengthening when children are placed using a continuous
families to reduce the out of home quality improvement
likelihood of repeated lens
maltreatment or
involvement with Child Strengthening
Protective Services communities by building
supports and services
for families

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