Safe Babies serves children age birth to 36 months who have been removed from their homes by Child Protective Services due to child neglect or drug exposure at birth.
Interventions are chiefly designed to support birth parents to build healthy attachment relationships with their children through coaching from a Safe Babies staff member and the children’s foster parents, shared parenting of children with the foster parents, coordination of care among service providers, and training stakeholders who influence child welfare cases in early childhood development. Expected outcomes include increased reunification rates, reduced recidivism, placement stability, decreased time to unsupervised visits and permanency, fewer parental rights terminations, improved child well-being outcomes, a stronger alliance between service providers, and the creation of developmentally informed policies that guide the treatment of infants and toddlers in the child welfare system.