The 12th Willis & Friends livestream explored the concerns from pediatricians, home visitors, child development experts, and parents have had on the impact of mask-wearing on mother-infant relationships.
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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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Early Relational Health e-Newsletter.
The 11th Willis & Friends discussed how to view children’s growth through healthy outcomes from positive experiences (HOPE). These positive early childhood experiences are important drivers of healthy child development and future adult health and counter adversity, that can come from adverse childhood experiences.
Early Relational Health e-Newsletter.
Early Relational Health e-Newsletter.
The 10th Willis & Friends brought together two of the three developers of the Early Relational Health Conversation model – Marie-Celeste Condon, PhD, and Dominique Charlot-Swilley, PhD. They described their experiences in researching African American families’ experiences with the ERH screening and more.
In the third session, David Willis, MD, speaks with Dr. Junlei Li about the mutuality, or bi-directionality, of early relationships and what these healthy early relationships can look like across cultures and contexts.
In the second session, Dipesh Navsaria, MD, and Andy Garner, MD discuss the essential role providers play in supporting Early Relational Health and how they can pivot from a deficit framework to a strengths-based approach to support families in developing healthy early relationships.
Early Relational Health e-Newsletter.
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