Watch a powerful example of the challenges involved in breaking generational patterns while staying intentional about parenting choices.
After watching the video, we encourage you to:
Pediatrics Supporting Parents (PSP), a national initiative, set out to explore this question in partnership with five Proof Point Communities (PPCs) across the country. The recently launched PSP webpages bring together what they’ve learned and the impact their work is having on the families they serve, highlighting how well-child visits can become meaningful opportunities to strengthen early relationships and support family well-being.
We encourage you to explore the PSP Innovations Library, which features real-world solutions—searchable by topic area and clinic type—drawn from these five communities. The site also shares PSP’s origin story, highlights its distinctive approaches to clinical practice, family partnership, and governance, and offers more information about each PPC. After your exploration of the PSP Innovations Library, we encourage you to:
From addressing infant and toddler homelessness through the Thrive From the Start policy agenda to expanding access to high-quality child care, these tools offer practical examples and evidence-based approaches from states across the country. Together, they provide guidance for leaders and professionals working to strengthen early childhood systems and ensure all families have the support they need to thrive.
From birth every child needs a stable place to call home. A safe place to play, learn, and grow is critical to supporting early childhood development. Yet an estimated 450,000 infants and toddlers experience homelessness each year. Thrive From the Start is a network of leading organizations across the early childhood, housing, and homelessness systems dedicated to ensuring all expectant parents, infants, toddlers, and their families have the resources and opportunities to thrive. This tool provides state examples and national resources to support the Thrive from the Start’s policy agenda.
To help state decisionmakers solve infant and toddler child care supply issues, we reviewed the early care and learning landscape across the country and collected examples of how states are working to increase supply in ways that best support the health and safety of our youngest children. This brief highlights the top 10 strategies we found in our scan. For detailed examples of how states are implementing each of these strategies, visit our Infant and Toddler Child Care Supply Building Strategies: A 2025 Baby Book Extra. After exploring these policy and systems resources, we encourage you to:
Through a short video and guided reflection questions, you can see how infants pay attention to and interpret emotional cues, an essential foundation for social and emotional development.
The Critical Competencies for Infant–Toddler Educators™ is a research-based curriculum that defines the knowledge and skills needed to support social-emotional, cognitive, and language and early literacy development. Offered by ZERO TO THREE as one of its professional development options, the Critical Competencies support educators, coaches, trainers, and higher education faculty with practical tools, activities, and learning experiences to strengthen their work with babies, toddlers, and their families.
After watching the video, you’ll reflect on the child’s attention and reactions, consider implications for your own setting, and deepen your understanding of how children learn about emotions through everyday interactions, consider the following questions:
The HealthySteps approach helps identify concerns early, strengthens relationships between families and pediatric providers, and offers guidance on topics like development, behavior, and family well-being during and between well-child visits.
HealthySteps created a resource for professionals and families that provides practical guidance to commonly asked questions about vaccines. The reviewed and research-based responses can be used in conversations, to build trust and support open dialogue. It emphasizes listening to parents’ concerns, sharing accurate information, and responding in a respectful, nonjudgmental way, helping families make informed decisions about their child’s health.
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