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California is reshaping Medicaid to bring new health services to families

Navigating Parent-Child Separations

Need Parenting Help? Therapy? Food? California Pediatrician Offices May Soon Be Able to Help

HealthySteps Provides Holistic Care During Crucial First Three Years of a Child’s Life

Pandemic babies: how are they developing in a world upended by COVID?

Researchers are tracking how babies born shortly before and during the pandemic are developing both socially and emotionally.

What Does It Mean for Children and Families to Be Healthy?

Understanding health beyond the physical.

What's “Mattering” In Young Children and Why Does It Matter?

How babies and toddlers can feel valued.

California is set to make a big investment in treating parents and children together

California will be the first state to pay for “dyadic care,” treating parents and children simultaneously.

A Family Wellness Check: California Invests in Treating Parents and Children Together

Five ways you can help ease kids’ stress from the last year

As children transition to post-pandemic life, here’s how adults can help.

What changes families need to recover from the past year

One-fourth of families with young children still can’t pay bills, afford basic needs.

PBS NewsHour Highlights HealthySteps as Solution to Prevent ACEs

Opening ‘so many doors for families’: COVID underscores importance of wrap-around care for new moms and children

HealthySteps continues to link patients with resources during the pandemic, when programs connecting at-risk families and babies with services have become more critical.

The Kids Aren’t Alright: How Social Isolation Affects Social Development

HealthySteps National Director Rahil Briggs, PsyD speaks as a guest on the 1A podcast on serious long-term effects of the pandemic on children.

What Parents of Babies and Toddlers Need Right Now

Dr. Rahil Briggs shares how practitioners can help caregivers and young children during stress of quarantine and social distancing.

A Noble Collaboration: Capital Flows to Social-Service Groups

This article details how NY’s Montefiore Medical Group’s HealthySteps program assists a young mother in battling housing insecurity while caring for her young daughter, under the funding of Blue Meridian Partners.

For new parents, there’s reason to relax about the pandemic’s effect on a baby’s development

HealthySteps National Director, Dr. Rahil Briggs speaks to parents and caregivers about when to expect challenges during the pandemic, and how to look for specific clues about their baby’s development.

Will Social Distancing Affect My Toddler’s Development?

Dr. Rahil Briggs shares how caregivers and parents can stay engaged and manage stress.

Support for Moms With Anxiety and Depression

Caregivers don’t have to suffer alone. Dr. Rahil Briggs writes about Jordan and her baby Patrice’s story of navigating perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD) through natural supports, care coordination, and ongoing coaching.

Talking With Young Children About Death

Dr. Rahil Briggs gives parents and caregivers valuable advice, insight and resources on discussing the topic of death with young children.