Best Practices
Ages 0–2
Prevention
- Involve community stakeholders in establishing clear and consistent social norms and effective social policies.
- Support first-time, low-income mothers with education, nutrition, health, safety, and human service resources to
improve maternal, prenatal, and early childhood health and well-being.
Intervention
- Build a comprehensive framework for the integration of child and adolescent services programming that links the juvenile
justice system with human service and other related agencies, including schools, child-welfare services, mental health
agencies, and social services.
- Create an infrastructure consisting of client information exchange, cross-agency client referrals, a networking protocol,
interagency councils, and service integration.
