Trauma-informed care embeds screening or surveillance in the context of comprehensive care. It starts with engaging families, building resilience, addressing attachment and assuring safety at all visits.

The proportion of new moms on leave for at least seven weeks increased from 54% to 96% after a one-month parenting rotation was created.

Pediatricians play a vital role in supporting families of adopted children, including counseling parents during the preadoption phase, providing health care for children after adoption and offering resources to help families integrate the adopted child into the family unit.

The Family First Prevention Services Act shifts the focus of the child welfare system to prevention and prioritizes keeping families together when possible.

Despite overall better outcomes, families providing kinship care endure many hardships, and the children experience many of the same adversities as children in traditional foster care.

AAP: Adoption friendly workplace