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P O L I C Y B R I E

23 Apr 2019

A system of well-baby health care is thought to To make a serious dent in the nation’s social and promote healthy development and prevent illness health problems, the child welfare system—and and death. [...] To manage costs, they rapidly the program and its purpose are explained to evaluate families so that expensive interventions the mothers (and their partners, if present) and are delivered to a smaller group, within the an appointment is scheduled to visit the family context of universal care. [...] and babies but produced similar results with In some cases, the community doesn’t wish to regard to both the implementation and impact commit to the requirements of implementing an measures. [...] Thus Family Connects passed the community must determine whether it has the 4 THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN funding to implement and sustain the program. [...] If the decision leans toward implementing Family The third stage is an implementation contract Connects, the next stage is a planning period, in which the site commits resources to start the often funded by a small grant from philanthropy program and establishes a contract with the Family or the community.
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