Nancy D Meenen
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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),…
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…