Babies Can’t Wait Toolkit
Long-term health and education outcomes are significantly improved for children who receive early support services. However, widespread lack of knowledge that early support services exist is a significant barrier to many people accessing these services for their child before their third birthday. In addition, many families, especially those that have marginalized identities, do not always feel comfortable moving forward with services.
In this context, WCEL has created the below films to use as outreach tools for social media, medical office screens, and usage by Family Resources Coordinators and health care providers to share directly with families to encourage them to give Early Support services a try.
We grant our permission to change the final screen to referral to your local referral service.
Films in the English language have English language subtitles to increase accessibility and the Spanish language films have Spanish language subtitles for the same reason.
Please email us with feedback on the films and input for the future as we plan to continue to make Babies Can't Wait films for additional cultural and linguists groups.
- This project is funded by Dan Thompson DDA
PLEASE NOTE: These are open source toolkits. However, for compliance purposes, we need to track where and how it is being used, so please email comms@wcel.net your URL links or other ways of sharing. Thank you!
Whatcom County Resources
Download the "Babies Can't Wait" media kits for local use by clicking the buttons below.
Current languages available: Arabic, English, Punjabi, Spanish, Ukrainian
Statewide Resources
Download the "Babies Can't Wait" media kits for statewide use by clicking the buttons below.
Print materials have been designed intentionally for organizations to download and edit to include your contact information and a QR code. Organizations also have permission to download the films and edit the final screen to referral to your local referral service. Current languages available: English, Punjabi, Ukrainian