Plan of Safe Care: Making Safety Policy a Strategy for Child and Family Well-being
April 3 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm PDT
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 Help Me Grow Washington and Colorado Department of Human Services—Division of Child Welfare, and their partner Illuminate Colorado.
