Families have access to necessary services through expanded eligibility, reduced administrative burden and fewer barriers to services, and identification of needs and connection to services.
Access to Needed Services
Parents’ Ability to Work
Parents have the skills and incentives for employment and the resources they need to balance working and parenting.
Sufficient Household Resources
Parents have the financial and material resources they need to provide for their families.
Healthy and Equitable Births
Children are born healthy to healthy parents, and pregnancy experiences and birth outcomes are equitable.
Parental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
Parents are mentally and physically healthy, with particular attention paid to the perinatal period.
Nurturing and Responsive Child-Parent Relationships
Children experience warm, nurturing, stimulating interactions with their parents that promote healthy development.
Nurturing and Responsive Child Care in Safe Settings
When children are not with their parents, they are in high-quality, nurturing, and safe environments.
Optimal Child Health and Development
Children’s emotional, physical, and cognitive development is on track, and delays are identified and addressed early.
