Children thrive when they have regular interactions with responsive, caring adults. Families experiencing significant stressors related to financial insecurity, housing instability, or the impact of systemic and interpersonal trauma can be overloaded with stress, interrupting those interactions. Over time, and without adequate supports and resources, overloaded families can become vulnerable to adverse experiences, ranging from instability to involvement in the child welfare system, and even family separation for reasons of neglect.

The goal of the Strong Families, Thriving Children, Connected Communities (SFTCCC) initiative is to reduce the number of family separations for reasons of neglect by building communities focused on collaboratively pursuing policies and practices that support overloaded families and address systemic failings.

Join us as the Institute for Child & Family Well Being shares more about the SFTCCC strategy and journey over the past year. As a network of providers, we will discuss how our member organizations and other stakeholders across the state can become involved in the development and advancement of the Critical Pathways that seek to elevate or design specific and actionable system-level solutions.

Click here to learn more about the Strong Families, Thriving Children, Connected Communities Initiative 

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The Institute for Child and Family Well Being is a partnership between Children's Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Helen Bader School of Social Welfare.