Project Description

In partnership with the nonprofit organization ZERO TO THREE, RTI International and Cecilia Casanueva are creating a system to protect children from harm and ensure safety, permanency, and well-being. The process, though, is complicated, involving families, courts, public and private agencies, schools and child care providers, nonprofit groups, and more. ZERO TO THREE designed a new approach for supporting the health, mental health, and developmental needs of young children in the child welfare system and expediting safe and nurturing permanency outcomes. Known as Safe Babies Court TeamTM (SBCT), this approach is a collaborative, problem-solving systems-change innovation focused on supporting the health, mental health, and developmental needs of babies and toddlers under the court’s jurisdiction and expediting safe, nurturing permanency outcomes.

Project Partners
ZERO TO THREE
Project Open
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