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This brief provides an overview and initial lessons learned from DULCE, an intervention that brings together health, legal, and early childhood systems partners to better support families of infants during the critical first six months of life.
(16 pp)
The secret sauce of the DULCE approach is the interdisciplinary team, a group of experts that combine three distinct systems; health care, early childhood, and legal to address the needs of families and promote the healthy development of infants from birth to six months of age. Vital to the success of the interdisciplinary team is the Family Specialist who develops a relationship with families to identify needs, problem solves collectively with other team members, and connects families to resources and supports.
This video clip highlights interdisciplinary team members at current DULCE sites, assessing their take on working collectively in service of families.
We spoke with some Parent Leaders at the inaugural gathering of the Parent Leader Network (PLN) in 2019. This video captures what it means to them to be on the PLN and why they are so committed to doing this work.
This case study takes a deeper dive into how the state of Vermont (specifically Lamoille Family Center, in partnership with Appleseed Pediatrics and Vermont Legal Aid) began implementation of DULCE in 2016.
(3 pp)
This brief focuses on the important role that legal interventions can play in accelerating access to concrete supports in times of need for families with young children. It calls upon early childhood systems to robustly integrate legal partnering into its concrete support “toolbox”—so that all families “know their rights” and more families can pursue those legal rights if they wish.
(27 pp)
This webinar discussed 90by30, a community-campus partnership based in Lane County, Oregon whose stated mission is to decrease child abuse 90% by the year 2030. This initiative is housed at the University of Oregon’s Center for the Prevention of Abuse and Neglect (CPAN), a community engagement, public health model using the Strengthening Families Protective Factors approach within a Collective Impact framework.
This presentation provided effective strategies on how to engage the business community through local chambers of commerce to increase investments in early care and education. Participants heard how Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Association of Washington Business worked together in Washington State to create such investments and the benefits it has provided to families, business, and the broader community. Presenters included Julia Barfield, Senior Manager at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation; Michele Beehler, Director of Human Resources at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories; and Amy Anderson, Government Affairs Director at the Association of Washington Business.
This presentation provided community engagement strategies for sharing power and building allies to help advance work in the prenatal-to-three space. Presenters shared frameworks for community engagement which increase levels of impact, trust and communication as well as what it takes to create conditions for full engagement where all participants feel welcomed, supported, and respected for their unique contributions.
During this webinar, representatives from two EC-LINC communities shared how they created funding for local early childhood initiatives and discussed the successful ballot initiative that established the CSCPBC organization and the role it plays as a local funder of early childhood services in Palm Beach County. The speakers also shared tips on how to be successful with similar attempts in other communities and answered questions from participants.
This brief outlines how child welfare systems can implement these eight strategies to address existing disproportionalities and disparities for LGBTQ+ children, youth, and families, promote optimal well-being, and recognize and affirm the multidimensional identities of youth and families including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and immigration status.