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Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Futures: A Judge's Guide
This Judge’s Guide is designed especially for judges and legal professionals to guide them through permanency planning for infants and toddlers in the child welfare system.
Written collaboratively by ZERO TO THREE, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and the American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law, the Judge’s Guide is designed especially for judges and legal professionals to guide them through permanency planning. With this comprehensive guidebook that focuses on the unique physical and socio-emotional needs of infants and toddlers, judges are equipped with a context for developmentally appropriate issues concerning young children and their families.
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