Family Support/Child Safety
Programs that receive funding in this priority area work to strengthen families, empower parents, reduce stress, and prevent child abuse and neglect. Programs and services in this priority include:
The CHILD Project: Road to Resilience
The CHILD Project: Road to Resilience (R2R) is an innovative systems improvement designed to improve coordination of services and supports for families at the earliest point in a child’s life, prenatal – 1 year. R2R is free to families, offers individualized supports, and provides a better system for improved health, safety, early childhood experiences, and family strengthening in Yolo County. Families receive home visits, connections to resources, and support navigating complex service systems to ensure that all families have access to the care, supports, and services they need and deserve, to raise children who are healthy, safe, and ready to learn. For additional information and current flyer for R2R, click here.
The project design allows resources to be allocated according to the needs of families through a coordinated system at CommuniCare’s perinatal medical clinics across the County (Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento, and intermittent clinics in Winters and the County Jail), as well as through a collaborative partnership for referrals from both traditional and non-traditional agencies outside of the medical system.
Direct services are provided by CommuniCare Health Center’s Perinatal and Behavioral Health Departments, Yolo County Children’s Alliance, and Yolo Crisis Nursery. Supporting this direct service effort, First 5 Yolo leads The R2R Partnership Network, whose purpose is to establish a multi-agency, cross-sector partnership of local leadership to continually examine data, outcomes, and options for systems and practice improvements.
R2R direct services are collaboratively funded by First 5 Yolo, State of California Office of Child Abuse Prevention, City of Davis, City of Woodland, County of Yolo, and private contributors. Support for the R2R Partnership Network was generously sponsored by Dignity Health in 2019.
Welcome Baby
Welcome Baby is an extension of The CHILD Project: Road to Resilience (R2R) that serves all of Yolo County’s Medi-Cal and uninsured families giving birth. Each family receives one registered nurse home visit within the first week postpartum to assess both mother and baby and provide breastfeeding support, healthcare navigation, and infant education. In the following weeks, families can receive up to two additional home visits from a community health worker who connects the family to community resources and longer-term home visiting programs, if needed. Welcome Baby is designed to mitigate toxic stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and build family resiliency starting from birth.
ABC Home Visiting
ABC is an evidence-based parenting intervention home visiting program for caregivers of infants and toddlers who have experienced early adversity. It enhances children’s behavioral and regulatory capabilities and fosters the development of secure attachments between children and their caregivers. In Yolo County, the ABC intervention is available for infants between 6 and 24 months of age, and for toddlers between 24 and 48 months, referred by Child Welfare Services. To learn more, visit http://www.abcintervention.org.