Plan of Safe Care: Transforming Perinatal Substance Use Response Through Community Collaboration

This webinar was part of the Washington Prenatal-to-Three (PN3) Lunch and Learn Series, a three-part webinar series hosted by the Washington PN3 Coalition and WithinReach. In this session, presenters explored how Help Me Grow (HMG)—the nation’s only evidence-based early childhood systems model—strengthens community resource networks to better support children and families. Viewers heard a brief overview from HMG National, followed by Washington’s innovative approach to developing a community-based Plan of Safe Care referral pathway for families experiencing perinatal substance use and infants with prenatal substance exposure. Presenters shared how Help Me Grow Washington, in partnership with state agencies, public health, hospitals, and individuals with lived experience, co-designed a family-centered system that provides supportive, wrap-around resources outside of child welfare. The discussion highlighted lessons learned, tribal considerations, braided funding, insights from disaggregated data, and early evaluation results, while also examining future intersections with the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA).