Designed to generate questions and further areas of research needed to advance the ongoing dialogue about family voice, equity, and the concept of early relational health.
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Early Relational Health: Innovations in child health for promotion, screening, and research
Relational experiences during infancy and early childhood are key drivers for building health, social emotional development, and learning capacities, each vital for wellbeing. The U.S. child health sectors share a commitment to universal health promotion, prevention and early intervention, and a growing enthusiasm for the research-affirmed primacy of caregiver-child interactions during the critical first 1000 days of life.
Policy Change to Promote Early Relational Health
The early and foundational relationships that babies and toddlers experience with their parents shape the health and well-being of two generations. This brief highlights opportunities to promote early relational health with policy change and investments, including with existing programs, pandemic funding, and pending legislation in Congress.
Building relationships: Framing Early Relational Health
This strategic brief, produced in collaboration with the FrameWorks Institute, offers a comprehensive framing strategy to help shift public attention to and understanding about Early Relational Health.
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Exploratory study focused specifically on exploring parent perspectives on foundational early relationships, and the potential for the family and child health care system to play a supportive role.
Offers a comprehensive framing strategy to help shift public attention to and understanding about Early Relational Health (ERH).
Discusses the Early Relational Health (ERH) National Survey conducted across early childhood health communities to get a better sense of current ERH-related activities, practices, and policies.
Recent scientific advances have demonstrated that healthy early childhood development that leads to long-term health and well-being is dependent on a young child’s relational experiences with the adults that care for them.
Third in a series of reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine targeting improvement of mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) development and health through promotion and prevention activities.
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