{"id":31136,"date":"2015-05-22T18:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T18:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caseyfamilyv2.wpengine.com\/prioritizing-early-childhood-safely\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:35:42","slug":"prioritizing-early-childhood-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/es\/prioritizing-early-childhood-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"Prioritizing Early Childhood to Safely Reduce the Need for Foster Care: A National Scan of Interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-section light fresh-text single wp-block-fresh-text backgrounds-and-margins-aware-block margin-top margin-bottom\">\n <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n\n \n \n <!-- The CTA is moved up next to the title when in the Head Section style -->\n \n  <div class=\"callout\"><p>The research and practice brief, <em>Prioritizing Early Childhood to Safely Reduce the Need for Foster Care: A National Scan of Interventions<\/em>, is a companion brief to Casey Family Programs\u2019 October 2013 research and practice publication, <em><a href=\"\/es\/case-early-childhood-intervention\/\">Making the Case for Early Childhood Intervention in Child Welfare<\/a><\/em>, which underscores the importance of intervening early when families with young children come to the attention of child welfare systems. This brief provides a more in-depth exploration of programs and highlights the practice elements that contribute to effective programs for parents and their young children involved with child welfare systems based on a national scan and six site visits.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The physical and emotional vulnerability of young children, the vital importance of nurturing caregiving for positive child development and the reality that almost half of entries into out-of home-care are children under age six are a few main reasons why this age group needs to be a public policy priority.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The brief describes the essential service elements needed to create a comprehensive child welfare system focused on the safety, well-being and developmental needs of young children:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Focus on child-caregiver relationship.<\/li>\n<li>Address substance abuse.<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate early childhood systems of care.<\/li>\n<li>Support court-driven collaborations.<\/li>\n<li>Provide therapeutic\/mental health services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The findings from the site visits suggest promising avenues for how the difficult challenges of serving families with young children in child welfare can be effectively addressed. The brief concludes with recommendations for system improvements focused on four areas:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create bridge services for systems and families.<\/li>\n<li>Adjust policies, funding and the service array to match the severity and complexity of issues.<\/li>\n<li>Advocate for and fund services that address families\u2019 needs created by their socio-economic status and environment.<\/li>\n<li>Invest in evaluation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n \n \n <!-- conversly to above, we need to not show the CTA here if it's the Head Section style -->\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"fifty-fifty backgrounds-and-margins-aware-block back-sprint-wood-gradient margin-top margin-bottom padding-top wp-block-fifty-fifty\">\n <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n <div class=\"grid split-6040 media-left addon-button\">\n <div class=\"content pt-7 md:pt-0\">\n   <div class=\"label text-revolver mb-7 pre-header\">Lea el informe completo<\/div>\n   <h2>Prioritizing Early Childhood to Safely Reduce the Need for Foster Care<\/h2>\n   <div class=\"my-6 text-salt-box\"><p>This report identifies what makes child welfare programs successful for young children and their parents, based on a national study and site visits.<\/p>\n<p>PDF: 1.11 MB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n   <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/prioritizing-early-childhood.pdf\" target=\"\">Descargar<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"gap\"><\/div>\n <div class=\"media  pt-0 md:pt-9\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pages-from-prioritizing-early-childhood.pdf.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This research brief highlights practice elements that contribute to effective programs for parents and young children involved with child welfare systems.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[281,280,266],"content_type":[205],"hidden-tags-misc":[],"audience":[317,498],"content_location":[329],"topic":[421,459],"class_list":["post-31136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-well-being","category-innovative-programs","category-safely-reduce-need-for-foster-care-across-nation","content_type-brief","audience-child-welfare-leader","audience-social-worker-direct-practitioner","content_location-national","topic-early-childhood","topic-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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