Nancy D Meenen

March 22, 2022

Promoting Responsive Bottle-feeding to Reduce Overfeeding and Prevent Rapid Weight Gain during Infancy / Barnard Center Lecture Series

Bottle-feeding is a strong predictor of risk for rapid weight gain during infancy, with previous research illustrating independent and combined effects of…

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Biological Embedding of Early-Life Adversity: Challenges and Opportunities / Barnard Center Lecture Series

  Dr. Shalev will discuss the current state of the science of how early-life adversity can ‘get under the skin’ and program…

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Diversity-Informed Father Engagement in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health / Barnard Center Lecture Series

  Diversity-Informed Father Engagement in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health The field of infant and early childhood mental health promotes the…

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December 20, 2021

New Promoting First Relationships Preview video!

Watch our new Promoting First Relationships preview video and share with an interested friend. WATCH NOW…

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December 13, 2021

NEAR @Home Toolkit

Please visit this link for the newly updated NEAR@Home ToolKit. NEAR@Home ToolKit provides guidance and strategies for service providers to use brain…

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November 17, 2021

Parent Voices Study

Early childhood and infant mental health services are critical programs supporting very young children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development, and help give…

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November 12, 2021

Financial Assistance for Child Care in Washington State

Thanks to the Fair Start for Kids Act, financial assistance for child care has been expanded to include more families across Washington…

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September 29, 2021

Irving Harris Foundation offers considerations for supporting parent-child relationships during family visit time

Family time provides a crucial opportunity for young children in foster care and their parents to have meaningful interactions and to form…

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August 6, 2021

National Center for Children in Poverty profiles Promoting First Relationships in Pediatric Primary Care

Since 2016, a growing number of pediatricians in Washington State have been trained on Promoting First Relationships in Pediatric Primary Care (PFR-PPC),…

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July 14, 2021

Mothers who were considered at risk of postnatal depression were found to benefit from Promoting First Relationships®

A new study published in Developmental Psychology shows a brief home visiting program Promoting First Relationships®, effectively supports caregiving practices of mothers…

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