“I Am Never Enough” - Addressing the Infant and Early Childhood & Broader Mental Health Workforce Crisis - June 18, 2025
2025-06-18 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
June 18, 2025
9 – 10:30am Pacific Time (Seattle)
via Zoom
BARNARD CENTER FREE LECTURE SERIES
This presentation and reflective conversation seek to create a space for open dialogue about the mental health workforce crisis and the contributing factors. Together we will explore relational possibilities to addressing contributors to the crisis while also improving engagement and service outcomes for children and families. A systemic pivot is long overdue that moves the broader conversation, administration, and service provision in conjunction with and beyond funding.

Nucha Isarowong, PhD, LICSW, IMH-E® is Director of the Advanced Clinical Training (ACT) Program at the Barnard Center for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at the University of Washington. In this current role, he works to diversify and expand the infant and early childhood mental health clinical and consultation workforce in the state of Washington by centering relationships, experiences of people and communities targeted for oppression, and principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in program administration, curriculum, and delivery. As a part of this work, he engages in efforts towards systems change by influencing multi-level systems integration of diversity-informed practice principles in the IECMH field. Nucha is a ZERO TO THREE Fellow (2012-2013) and serves as a board member for Profectum Foundation. He is a facilitator and member of the Curriculum Committee for the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (Tenets) Initiative.

REGISTER HERE

Promoting First Relationships® Level One IN PERSON Workshop – July 24 & 25, 2025
2025-07-24 08:30 - 2025-07-25 17:00 | University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
July 24 & 25, 2025
8:30 am – 5 pm each day, in-person, Seattle
Workshop held near the University of Washington.

This workshop is eligible for 13 contact hours.
Professionals who work with caregivers and young children (0-5) often see the need to support and guide caregivers in building nurturing relationships with children. Promoting First Relationships workshop gives professionals the knowledge, tools, and strategies to do so. The Promoting First Relationships evidence-based program integrates theory, practice and intervention.
In this level one workshop, participants learn a unique consultation and intervention strategy that they can integrate into their work whether in high-risk, special needs, child-care, or other early childhood fields.
In this workshop, you will learn . . .

Theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood (birth to 3 years)
Consultation strategies
Elements of a healthy relationship
Infants and the development of trust and security
Toddlers and the development of self
Understanding and intervening with children’s challenging behaviors
Developing intervention plans and individualizing the PFR curriculum

Promoting First Relationships can improve…

Parental sensitivity
Parental knowledge of child development
Parental confidence and competence
Child outcomes
Child Welfare outcomes

Because Promoting First Relationships is a positive, strengths-based model, caregivers are typically open to intervention and gain competence, and thus investment, in their caregiving.
Your fee covers tuition, all curriculum materials including the Promoting First Relationships manual and reproducible parent handouts.
What participants are saying . . .

“I loved the video examples which really helped illustrate the principles.”
“Straightforward and doable, lots of real life examples and opportunity to reflect in groups.”
“I liked how the case studies cemented the concepts.”
“I particularly liked the group discussions, latest research information and the handouts.”

Understanding Infant Cues, Regulation, Behavior, and States - August 11, 2025
2025-08-11 08:00 - 12:00 | Zoom, United States
August 11, 2025
8:00AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time (SEATTLE)
via Zoom

This training is eligible for 3.75 STARS credit.
Keys to Infant Caregiving is a research-based program for professionals that provides essential information on newborn and infant behavior. Participants will learn about infants and their captivating ability to interact and engage in relationships with their parents, caregivers, childcare providers and how that impacts the care they receive. Participants will learn about how infants’ internal states influence their behavior and how to help infants regulate. They will learn how to read the very young infant’s cues and how to foster relationships in the childcare setting that promote the infant’s social, emotional, and cognitive growth while completing routine tasks like feeding and diapering an infant.
The course will be a mixture of video observation of infants, PowerPoint, and discussion to help participants define, observe, and reflect on ways to understand and support how infants in their care are growing and developing within the daily interactions they are engaging in.
This course will help you:

Describe the observable behaviors of the six infant states and how that impacts the care they receive
Identify state-related behaviors during routine caregiving activities
Demonstrate your knowledge of the infant’s regulatory capabilities through the identification of cues- both engagement and disengagement
Identify ways of interacting with infants to support emotion regulation, language, and social development

Your fee covers tuition and Keys to Infant Caregiving study guide.

Promoting First Relationships® Level One VIRTUAL Workshop – September 15, 18, 24 & 25, 2025
2025-09-15 09:00 - 2025-09-25 12:30 | Zoom
4 Half-Days Level 1 Workshop
September 15, 18, 24 & 25, 2025
9:00am – 12:30pm each day Pacific Time (SEATTLE)
via Zoom
Professionals who work with caregivers and young children (0-5) often see the need to support and guide caregivers in building nurturing relationships with children. Promoting First Relationships workshop gives professionals the knowledge, tools, and strategies to do so. The Promoting First Relationships evidence-based program integrates theory, practice and intervention.
In this 4 half-day learner’s workshop, participants learn a unique consultation and intervention strategy that they can integrate into their work whether in high-risk, special needs, child-care, or other early childhood fields.
In this workshop, you will learn . . .

Theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood (birth to 3 years)
Consultation strategies
Elements of a healthy relationship
Infants and the development of trust and security
Toddlers and the development of self
Understanding and intervening with children’s challenging behaviors
Developing intervention plans and individualizing the PFR curriculum

Promoting First Relationships can improve…

Parental sensitivity
Parental knowledge of child development
Parental confidence and competence
Child outcomes
Child Welfare outcomes

Because Promoting First Relationships is a positive, strengths-based model, caregivers are typically open to intervention and gain competence, and thus investment, in their caregiving.
Your fee covers tuition, all curriculum materials including the Promoting First Relationships manual, and a copy of reproducible parent handouts.
What participants are saying . . .

“I loved the video examples which really helped illustrate the principles.”
“Straightforward and doable, lots of real life examples and opportunity to reflect in groups.”
“I liked how the case studies cemented the concepts.”
“I particularly liked the group discussions, latest research information and the handouts.”

Frightening and Anomalous Maternal Behavior in the First Two Years of Life and Its Impact on Children’s Development - September 22, 2025
2025-09-22 09:00 - 10:15
September 22, 2025
9 – 10:15am Pacific Time (Seattle) / 11 – 12:15pm Central Time (Texas)
via Zoom
BARNARD CENTER FREE LECTURE SERIES
This talk will explore how a mother’s unresolved trauma stemming from abuse or the loss of significant others can affect the quality of care she provides for her child. Specifically, we will describe frightening and anomalous caregiving behaviors over their child’s first two year of life and show video examples. We will then discuss how these early experiences relate to emotional and behavior problems in middle childhood. Finally, we will discuss the implications of this research for clinical intervention.

Deborah Jacobvitz, Ph.D., is the Phyllis L. Richards Endowed Professor in Child Development at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines how early caregiving experiences shape the ways individuals remember, interpret, and organize information, as well as the relationships they form across the life course. She focuses on how family interaction patterns influence children’s socio-emotional development and has developed interventions to strengthen infant-caregiver relationships and support healthy developmental outcomes. Dr. Jacobvitz has published over 100 scientific papers, and her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes for Health, the Episcopal Health Foundation and St. David’s Foundation. Finally, in recognition of her contributions to the field, she received the distinguished 2025 Bowlby-Ainsworth Award from the Center for Mental Health Promotion and the New York Attachment Consortium.

REGISTER HERE

Promoting First Relationships® Level One VIRTUAL Workshop – October 13, 16, 21 & 23, 2025
2025-10-13 09:00 - 2025-10-23 12:30 | Zoom
4 Half-Days Level 1 Workshop
October 13, 16, 21 & 23, 2025
9:00am – 12:30pm each day Pacific Time (SEATTLE)
via Zoom
Professionals who work with caregivers and young children (0-5) often see the need to support and guide caregivers in building nurturing relationships with children. Promoting First Relationships workshop gives professionals the knowledge, tools, and strategies to do so. The Promoting First Relationships evidence-based program integrates theory, practice and intervention.
In this 4 half-day learner’s workshop, participants learn a unique consultation and intervention strategy that they can integrate into their work whether in high-risk, special needs, child-care, or other early childhood fields.
In this workshop, you will learn . . .

Theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood (birth to 3 years)
Consultation strategies
Elements of a healthy relationship
Infants and the development of trust and security
Toddlers and the development of self
Understanding and intervening with children’s challenging behaviors
Developing intervention plans and individualizing the PFR curriculum

Promoting First Relationships can improve…

Parental sensitivity
Parental knowledge of child development
Parental confidence and competence
Child outcomes
Child Welfare outcomes

Because Promoting First Relationships is a positive, strengths-based model, caregivers are typically open to intervention and gain competence, and thus investment, in their caregiving.
Your fee covers tuition, all curriculum materials including the Promoting First Relationships manual, and a copy of reproducible parent handouts.
What participants are saying . . .

“I loved the video examples which really helped illustrate the principles.”
“Straightforward and doable, lots of real life examples and opportunity to reflect in groups.”
“I liked how the case studies cemented the concepts.”
“I particularly liked the group discussions, latest research information and the handouts.”

Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy VIRTUAL Workshop – October 14-17, 2025
2025-10-14 08:00 - 2025-10-17 12:00 | Zoom
October 14-17, 2025
8:00am – 12:00pm each day Pacific Time (Seattle)
via Zoom

This workshop addresses the importance of helping the pregnant woman achieve a healthier mental and emotional state during pregnancy in order to improve the chances that she and her child will experience a healthier relationship. Interventions allow for individualized and creative approaches that capture your client’s interest.

Research has shown that a mother’s mental health and emotional state during pregnancy has an immediate and direct impact on her lifelong relationship with her infant.
In turn, the health of the mother-child relationship directly impacts the child’s quality of life, possibly throughout the lifespan.
By helping the pregnant woman improve her mental and emotional state during pregnancy, we are able to increase the chances that she and her child will experience a healthier relationship.

Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy training covers issues critical to the development of the early mother-child relationship including . . .

High-risk pregnancies
Unresolved grief or loss
Normal, typical course of pregnancy
Domestic violence
Women experiencing depression or other mental health disruptions

Your fee covers tuition and all curriculum materials including two Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy books, one covering Theory and Practice and one on Activities, an assessment guide, and 56 reproducible handouts/activities.
What participants are saying . . .

“Excellent. Fantastic. I love that I’m leaving with real, simple interventions that I can start using tomorrow. A very practicial application to help Mom through all aspects of pregnancy.”

“The presenter was good at connecting the concepts in a personal and positive way.”
“I feel more confident in being able to help my families.”

Black Grief: All Grief Is Not Created The Same - October 22
2025-10-22 09:00 - 10:30
October 22, 2025
9 – 10:30am Pacific Time (Seattle) / 12 – 1:30pm Eastern
via Zoom
BARNARD CENTER FREE LECTURE SERIES
Black Grief: All Grief Is Not Created the Same – This presentation sheds light on the unique challenges faced by Black individuals and communities when it comes to perinatal mental health and grief. It will delve into the 5 stages of grief for Black people and highlight the systemic barriers and disparities Black people face in accessing mental health support.

XAVIERA ZAY BELL, MS, cHET, CD, PFP
After the loss of her son Xander, Xaviera “Zay” Bell became a passionate advocate for maternal health. She is the creator and founder of two impactful nonprofits, Zeal of Xander, Inc. and The Black Birth Institute, Inc. She is dedicated to addressing the unique needs and challenges faced by black women and families in her community. Zay holds a Master of Science, certifications as a doula, and has completed specialized training in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders and Adult Mental Health First Aid. She is also a certified life coach with a focus on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Zay is an author and creator of the first Black Infant Mortality Anthology, The Mourning After, in the United States, she’s a TEDx speaker, and the recipient of the John C. MacQueen Award recognizing her as a nationally awarded lecturer through AMCHP.

REGISTER HERE

Transforming the Hospital-to-Home Journey: Strengthening Supports for NICU Caregivers and their Infants Post-Discharge - November 3
2025-11-03 09:00 - 10:30 | Zoom
November 3, 2025
9 – 10:30am Pacific Time (Seattle) / 12 – 1:30pm Eastern
via Zoom
BARNARD CENTER FREE LECTURE SERIES
Caregivers of NICU infants are at significantly higher risk of perinatal mental health challenges which can impact early relational health and infant development, particularly feeding – a complex, relationship-based process that can become a source of immense stress for families. Every family who leaves the NICU should have the support they need. Yet current post-discharge systems of care are fragmented and inequitable. Northwest Center’s Hospital-to-Home care model works to change this by integrating siloed services, reducing points of contact for families, and ensuring universal screening for resource and mental health needs alongside infant developmental and feeding therapy. This session will highlight both the need for this support and our ongoing efforts to create more equitable, coordinated NICU-to-home transitions that optimize outcomes for infants and their families.

Sara Circelli, MA, IMH-E, PMH-C
Sara Circelli, MA, IMH-E, PMH-C, is the Hospital-to-Home Systems Change Manager at Northwest Center (NWC), where she has also served as an Early Intervention Family Resources Coordinator for nearly a decade. She helped develop NWC’s Hospital-to-Home team to address the “service cliff” families face after NICU discharge, ensuring a supported transition home. Sara has led statewide trainings to build provider capacity and embed perinatal mental health supports within Early Support for Infant and Toddlers (ESIT). She is trained in Promoting First Relationships and holds certifications in Compassionate Bereavement Care and Group Peer Support, facilitating groups for Postpartum Support International and beyond. Drawing on both professional and lived experience, Sara is dedicated to supporting caregiver emotional well-being alongside infant development.
Sara and Tiffany were selected to the Innovation Fellowship at the Thrive Center with Georgetown University, where they are receiving mentorship and coaching to elevate the Hospital-to-Home care model and ensure all families leaving the NICU have the support they need.

Tiffany Elliott, MS, CCC-SLP, CNT, IBCLC, NTMTC
Tiffany Elliott is a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) and International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with 15 years experience, specializing in pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders with a strong focus on preterm and medically complex infants and strengthening the caregiver-infant dyad. Tiffany is the Hospital-to-Home systems change specialist at Northwest Center, bringing her deep clinical experience of healthcare systems and the impact of pediatric feeding disorder on early relational health. Additionally, she provides direct clinical care on the infant team at Seattle Children’s Hospital and recently opened her own training and mentorship business called Feeding Connections, PLLC.

REGISTER HERE

Understanding Infant Cues, Regulation, Behavior, and States - November 12, 2025
2025-11-12 08:00 - 12:00
November 12, 2025
8:00AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time (SEATTLE)
via Zoom

This training is eligible for 3.75 STARS credit.
Keys to Infant Caregiving is a research-based program for professionals that provides essential information on newborn and infant behavior. Participants will learn about infants and their captivating ability to interact and engage in relationships with their parents, caregivers, childcare providers and how that impacts the care they receive. Participants will learn about how infants’ internal states influence their behavior and how to help infants regulate. They will learn how to read the very young infant’s cues and how to foster relationships in the childcare setting that promote the infant’s social, emotional, and cognitive growth while completing routine tasks like feeding and diapering an infant.
The course will be a mixture of video observation of infants, PowerPoint, and discussion to help participants define, observe, and reflect on ways to understand and support how infants in their care are growing and developing within the daily interactions they are engaging in.
This course will help you:

Describe the observable behaviors of the six infant states and how that impacts the care they receive
Identify state-related behaviors during routine caregiving activities
Demonstrate your knowledge of the infant’s regulatory capabilities through the identification of cues- both engagement and disengagement
Identify ways of interacting with infants to support emotion regulation, language, and social development

Your fee covers tuition and Keys to Infant Caregiving study guide.

Promoting First Relationships® Level One VIRTUAL Workshop – January 20, 22, 26 & 28, 2026
2026-01-20 09:00 - 2026-01-28 12:30
4 Half-Days Level 1 Workshop
January 20, 22, 26 & 28, 2026
9:00 – 12:30pm each day Pacific Time (SEATTLE) / 12:00 – 3:3opm Eastern Time (NY)
via Zoom
Professionals who work with caregivers and young children (0-5) often see the need to support and guide caregivers in building nurturing relationships with children. Promoting First Relationships workshop gives professionals the knowledge, tools, and strategies to do so. The Promoting First Relationships evidence-based program integrates theory, practice and intervention.
In this 4 half-day learner’s workshop, participants learn a unique consultation and intervention strategy that they can integrate into their work whether in high-risk, special needs, child-care, or other early childhood fields.
In this workshop, you will learn . . .

Theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood (birth to 3 years)
Consultation strategies
Elements of a healthy relationship
Infants and the development of trust and security
Toddlers and the development of self
Understanding and intervening with children’s challenging behaviors
Developing intervention plans and individualizing the PFR curriculum

Promoting First Relationships can improve…

Parental sensitivity
Parental knowledge of child development
Parental confidence and competence
Child outcomes
Child Welfare outcomes

Because Promoting First Relationships is a positive, strengths-based model, caregivers are typically open to intervention and gain competence, and thus investment, in their caregiving.
Your fee covers tuition, all curriculum materials including the Promoting First Relationships manual, and a copy of reproducible parent handouts.
What participants are saying . . .

“I loved the video examples which really helped illustrate the principles.”
“Straightforward and doable, lots of real life examples and opportunity to reflect in groups.”
“I liked how the case studies cemented the concepts.”
“I particularly liked the group discussions, latest research information and the handouts.”

Promoting First Relationships® (PFR) OPEN HOUSE
2026-01-21 09:00 - 09:30 | Zoom
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
9:00am – 9:30am PT (Seattle)
via Zoom
Register Here
Join us on Zoom January 21st to learn more about Promoting First Relationships® (PFR) and how this program can support the work that you do with families and young children.

PFR offers a unique and engaging way of working with caregivers to help them feel confident in their parenting and experience joy in their relationship with their child.
This open house will include a brief presentation and time for questions and answers.

Promoting First Relationships® Level One VIRTUAL Workshop – February 3, 5, 10 & 12, 2026
2026-02-03 14:00 - 2026-02-12 17:30
4 Half-Days Level 1 Workshop
February 3, 5, 10 & 12, 2026
2pm – 5:30pm each day Pacific Time (SEATTLE)
via Zoom
Australian Eastern Daylight Times
4, 6, 11, 13 February 2026
9am – 12:30pm each day AEDT
14 CEs available
Promoting First Relationships workshop gives professionals the knowledge, tools, and strategies to support and guide caregivers in building nurturing relationships with children (0-5). The Promoting First Relationships evidence-based program integrates theory, practice and intervention.
In this 4 half-day learner’s workshop, participants learn a unique consultation and intervention strategy that they can integrate into their work whether in high-risk, special needs, child-care, or other early childhood fields.
In this workshop, you will learn . . .

Theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood (birth to 3 years)
Consultation strategies
Elements of a healthy relationship
Infants and the development of trust and security
Toddlers and the development of self
Understanding and intervening with children’s challenging behaviors
Developing intervention plans and individualizing the PFR curriculum

Promoting First Relationships can improve…

Parental sensitivity
Parental knowledge of child development
Parental confidence and competence
Child outcomes
Child Welfare outcomes

Because Promoting First Relationships is a positive, strengths-based model, caregivers are typically open to intervention and gain competence, and thus investment, in their caregiving.
Your fee covers tuition, all curriculum materials including the Promoting First Relationships manual, and a copy of reproducible parent handouts.
What participants are saying . . .

“I loved the video examples which really helped illustrate the principles.”
“Straightforward and doable, lots of real life examples and opportunity to reflect in groups.”
“I liked how the case studies cemented the concepts.”
“I particularly liked the group discussions, latest research information and the handouts.”

Supporting Trust and Exploration in Reflective Supervision/Consultation - February 25, 2026
2026-02-25 09:00 - 12:00
Supporting Trust and Exploration in Reflective Supervision/Consultation
A Training for Home Visiting Supervisors and Consultants
February 25, 2026
9 – 12 pm Pacific Time / 12 -3 pm Eastern Time
via Zoom

Why Attend?
Reflective Supervision is the heart of relational practice. This training will help you create supervisory spaces that foster trust, curiosity, and growth—essential for supporting home visitors and the families they serve.
What You’ll Learn:
✔ Understand the Primary Goals of Reflective Supervision/Consultation

Build safety and confidence for home visitors
Promote reflective capacity and professional growth
See through the parent’s and child’s lens for attuned support

✔ Deepen Understanding of Human Social Emotional Needs

Explore how the 10 Human Social Emotional Needs show up in the work
Learn how to stay connected during difficult interactions
Create responsive and containing supervisory relationships

✔ Balance Exploration and Guidance

Navigate reflective exploration vs. directive guidance
Support growth while maintaining accountability
Cultivate a curious, compassionate, developmentally informed stance

Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) Instructor virtual workshop - March 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31 and April 1, 2026
2026-03-03 17:30 - 2026-04-01 21:30
March 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31 and April 1, 2026
5:30PM – 9:30PM Pacific Time each class, 10 partial days of instruction
via Zoom
4 & 5 March from 12:30pm – 4:30pm Sydney Australia time
11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 March 11:30am – 3:30pm Sydney Australia time
1 & 2 April from 11:30am – 3:30pm Sydney Australia time
via Zoom
40 CEs available
Want to join our exclusive team of PCI Instructors from around the world?
The PCI Instructor Workshop is a 10 partial days intensive workshop to prepare professionals for the role of training others in the Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) Feeding & Teaching Scales. All participants must complete the prerequisites before they attend. This workshop is designed for professionals working with families with infants and young children who have a role in the ongoing training of community health care service providers. Those planning to use the PCI Feeding and Teaching Scales in research are encouraged to attend.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Prerequisites are achieving reliability in both the Feeding and Teaching Scales prior to taking the PCI Instructor course
Attendance at all sessions is required
Required reading assignments
One case study is required after completion of all class time
Tuition includes: All virtual instructional time, Feeding manual and scale pads, Teaching manual and scale pads, the Beginning Rhythms manual, Keys to Infant Caregiving Study Guide, and each Personal Environment Assessment scales manual.
The Instructional videos used to teach PCI are a separate cost of $2,500
Refund policy—two weeks before the first day of the course, a refund, minus a $200 fee, will be issued. All materials must be returned, unused, and in sellable condition within two weeks of cancellation. Any materials not returned will be charged to the refund. If cancellation occurs within two weeks of the first day of class, no refunds will be given.

FAQs:
Q: Do I need to attend the full workshop?
A: Yes, in order to receive your certificate of completion and be eligible to be a certified PCI Instructor, you must be present for all 10 partial-training days and appropriate hours and complete the full agenda.
Q: I only want to teach the Feeding scale (or Teaching). Can I just attend for that?
A: All of our trainers must learn both scales. All PCI trainers are certified to teach both Feeding and Teaching scales. No exceptions are made. You may choose to teach only one, but will meet all the same qualifications as all PCI Instructors.

Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy VIRTUAL Workshop – March 16-19, 2026
2026-03-16 13:00 - 2026-03-19 17:00
March 16-19, 2026
1:00pm – 5:00pm each day Pacific Time (Seattle)
via Zoom
17-20 March 2026
7:00am – 11:00am each day Australia ED Time (Sydney)
via Zoom

15 CEs available
This workshop addresses the importance of helping the pregnant woman achieve a healthier mental and emotional state during pregnancy in order to improve the chances that she and her child will experience a healthier relationship. Interventions allow for individualized and creative approaches that capture your client’s interest.

Research has shown that a mother’s mental health and emotional state during pregnancy has an immediate and direct impact on her lifelong relationship with her infant.
In turn, the health of the mother-child relationship directly impacts the child’s quality of life, possibly throughout the lifespan.
By helping the pregnant woman improve her mental and emotional state during pregnancy, we are able to increase the chances that she and her child will experience a healthier relationship.

Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy training covers issues critical to the development of the early mother-child relationship including . . .

High-risk pregnancies
Unresolved grief or loss
Normal, typical course of pregnancy
Domestic violence
Women experiencing depression or other mental health disruptions

Your fee covers tuition and all curriculum materials including two Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy books, one covering Theory and Practice and one on Activities, an assessment guide, and 56 reproducible handouts/activities.
What participants are saying . . .

“Excellent. Fantastic. I love that I’m leaving with real, simple interventions that I can start using tomorrow. A very practicial application to help Mom through all aspects of pregnancy.”

“The presenter was good at connecting the concepts in a personal and positive way.”
“I feel more confident in being able to help my families.”

Supporting Trust and Exploration in Reflective Supervision/Consultation - March 26, 2026
2026-03-26 09:00 - 12:00
Supporting Trust and Exploration in Reflective Supervision/Consultation
A Training for Home Visiting Supervisors and Consultants
March 26, 2026
9 – 12 pm Pacific Time / 12 -3 pm Eastern Time
via Zoom
3 CEs available
Why Attend?
Reflective Supervision is the heart of relational practice. This training will help you create supervisory spaces that foster trust, curiosity, and growth—essential for supporting home visitors and the families they serve.
What You’ll Learn:
✔ Understand the Primary Goals of Reflective Supervision/Consultation

Build safety and confidence for home visitors
Promote reflective capacity and professional growth
See through the parent’s and child’s lens for attuned support

✔ Deepen Understanding of Human Social Emotional Needs

Explore how the 10 Human Social Emotional Needs show up in the work
Learn how to stay connected during difficult interactions
Create responsive and containing supervisory relationships

✔ Balance Exploration and Guidance

Navigate reflective exploration vs. directive guidance
Support growth while maintaining accountability
Cultivate a curious, compassionate, developmentally informed stance

Understanding Infant Cues, Regulation, Behavior, and States - April 14, 2026
2026-04-14 08:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
April 14, 2026
8:00AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time (SEATTLE)
via Zoom

This training is eligible for 3.75 STARS credit.
Keys to Infant Caregiving is a research-based program for professionals that provides essential information on newborn and infant behavior. Participants will learn about infants and their captivating ability to interact and engage in relationships with their parents, caregivers, childcare providers and how that impacts the care they receive. Participants will learn about how infants’ internal states influence their behavior and how to help infants regulate. They will learn how to read the very young infant’s cues and how to foster relationships in the childcare setting that promote the infant’s social, emotional, and cognitive growth while completing routine tasks like feeding and diapering an infant.
The course will be a mixture of video observation of infants, PowerPoint, and discussion to help participants define, observe, and reflect on ways to understand and support how infants in their care are growing and developing within the daily interactions they are engaging in.
This course will help you:

Describe the observable behaviors of the six infant states and how that impacts the care they receive
Identify state-related behaviors during routine caregiving activities
Demonstrate your knowledge of the infant’s regulatory capabilities through the identification of cues- both engagement and disengagement
Identify ways of interacting with infants to support emotion regulation, language, and social development

Your fee covers tuition and Keys to Infant Caregiving study guide.

Promoting First Relationships® Level One VIRTUAL Workshop – April 20, 22, 28 & 30, 2026
2026-04-20 09:00 - 2026-04-30 12:30
4 Half-Days Level 1 Workshop
April 20, 22, 28 & 30, 2026
9:00 – 12:30pm each day Pacific Time (SEATTLE) / 12:00 – 3:3opm Eastern Time (NY)
via Zoom
14 CEs available
Promoting First Relationships workshop gives professionals the knowledge, tools, and strategies to support and guide caregivers in building nurturing relationships with children (0-5). The Promoting First Relationships evidence-based program integrates theory, practice and intervention.
In this 4 half-day learner’s workshop, participants learn a unique consultation and intervention strategy that they can integrate into their work whether in high-risk, special needs, child-care, or other early childhood fields.
In this workshop, you will learn . . .

Theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood (birth to 3 years)
Consultation strategies
Elements of a healthy relationship
Infants and the development of trust and security
Toddlers and the development of self
Understanding and intervening with children’s challenging behaviors
Developing intervention plans and individualizing the PFR curriculum

Promoting First Relationships can improve…

Parental sensitivity
Parental knowledge of child development
Parental confidence and competence
Child outcomes
Child Welfare outcomes

Because Promoting First Relationships is a positive, strengths-based model, caregivers are typically open to intervention and gain competence, and thus investment, in their caregiving.
Your fee covers tuition, all curriculum materials including the Promoting First Relationships manual, and a copy of reproducible parent handouts.
What participants are saying . . .

“I loved the video examples which really helped illustrate the principles.”
“Straightforward and doable, lots of real life examples and opportunity to reflect in groups.”
“I liked how the case studies cemented the concepts.”
“I particularly liked the group discussions, latest research information and the handouts.”

Caregiver-child Biobehavioral Synchrony in Positive Contexts - April 30, 2026
2026-04-30 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
April 30, 2026
10 – 11:30am Pacific Time (Seattle) / 1 – 2:30pm Eastern
via Zoom
BARNARD CENTER FREE LECTURE SERIES
A key developmental task of the first years of a child’s life is establishing child self-regulatory abilities. Biobehavioral synchrony or the extent to which the caregiver and child coordinate and match their vocalizations, affect, body movements, and touch as well as their physiological and neural responses during face-to-face interactions is theorized to support the development of young children’s emotional self-regulation abilities. This talk will describe the ways in which biobehavioral synchrony promotes infant and young child socio-emotional development and discuss factors such as parental psychopathology that may disrupt this important developmental mechanism.

DR. JUDITH MORGAN, PhD
Dr. Morgan’s research has focused on mechanisms of risk for affective disorders during early development. Dr. Morgan received her B.S.in Psychology from the University of Alabama in 2004, summa cum laude, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Delaware in 2010. Dr. Morgan has received continuous funding from the National Institute of Mental Health since 2013. In July 2013, she was awarded a NIMH-funded Career Development Award (K01), “Neural and Social Processes of Positive Affect in Children at Risk for Depression”, that examined neural reward function in 6- to 8- year-old children at familial risk for depression. In 2017, she was awarded a Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) R01 to evaluate how affective, behavioral, and neural synchrony in mother-child dyads may be compromised by maternal depression. This prestigious R01 is awarded to “outstanding, exceptionally productive scientists who are in the early, formative stages of their careers and who plan to make a long-term career commitment to research”. Most recently, she received two additional R01 awards, one in February 2023 to evaluate biobehavioral synchrony in mother-infant dyads affected by postpartum depression, and another in July 2024 to experimentally test how parental socialization of child positive affect may shape child neural reward activity. Dr. Morgan has been recognized for her scholarly efforts through various awards throughout her career, including a Klingenstein Third Generation Fellowship in 2014, a NARSAD Young Investigator Award in 2017, and a Constellation of Emerging and Rising Stars Award from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022.

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Promoting First Relationships® Level One VIRTUAL Workshop – May 18-21, 2026
2026-05-18 09:00 - 2026-05-21 12:30
4 Half-Days Level 1 Workshop
May 18-21, 2026
9:00 – 12:30pm each day Pacific Time (SEATTLE) / 12:00 – 3:3opm Eastern Time (NY)
via Zoom
14 CEs available
Promoting First Relationships workshop gives professionals the knowledge, tools, and strategies to support and guide caregivers in building nurturing relationships with children (0-5). The Promoting First Relationships evidence-based program integrates theory, practice and intervention.
In this 4 half-day learner’s workshop, participants learn a unique consultation and intervention strategy that they can integrate into their work whether in high-risk, special needs, child-care, or other early childhood fields.
In this workshop, you will learn . . .

Theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood (birth to 3 years)
Consultation strategies
Elements of a healthy relationship
Infants and the development of trust and security
Toddlers and the development of self
Understanding and intervening with children’s challenging behaviors
Developing intervention plans and individualizing the PFR curriculum

Promoting First Relationships can improve…

Parental sensitivity
Parental knowledge of child development
Parental confidence and competence
Child outcomes
Child Welfare outcomes

Because Promoting First Relationships is a positive, strengths-based model, caregivers are typically open to intervention and gain competence, and thus investment, in their caregiving.
Your fee covers tuition, all curriculum materials including the Promoting First Relationships manual, and a copy of reproducible parent handouts.
What participants are saying . . .

“I loved the video examples which really helped illustrate the principles.”
“Straightforward and doable, lots of real life examples and opportunity to reflect in groups.”
“I liked how the case studies cemented the concepts.”
“I particularly liked the group discussions, latest research information and the handouts.”

From Contagious Crying to Compassion: The Origins of Empathy- June 23, 2026
2026-06-23 09:00 - 10:30 | Zoom
June 23, 2026
9 – 10:30am Pacific Time (Seattle) / 12 – 1:30pm Eastern
via Zoom
BARNARD CENTER FREE LECTURE SERIES
Why do babies cry when they hear other babies cry? Is it simply a reaction to an unpleasant sound or an early sign of empathy? This talk explores the phenomenon of “contagious crying” in infancy, drawing on cross-cultural studies from the UK and Uganda using innovative physiological measures. We will consider how infants’ early emotional responses to others lay the groundwork for empathy, and how these are shaped by caregivers and cultural contexts to support young children’s emotional development.

DR. CARLO VREDEN, PhD
Dr. Carlo Vreden obtained his PhD in Developmental Psychology from Durham University in the UK and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt, Germany. Carlo’s work looks at the development of young children’s social and emotional behaviors and how their development is shaped by instructional styles, caregiver interactions, and cultural practices.

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Promoting First Relationships® Level One VIRTUAL Workshop – July 14-17, 2026
2026-07-14 09:00 - 2026-07-17 12:30
4 Half-Days Level 1 Workshop
July 14-17, 2026
9:00 – 12:30pm each day Pacific Time (SEATTLE) / 12:00 – 3:30pm Eastern Time (NY)
via Zoom
14 CEs available
Promoting First Relationships workshop gives professionals the knowledge, tools, and strategies to support and guide caregivers in building nurturing relationships with children (0-5). The Promoting First Relationships evidence-based program integrates theory, practice and intervention.
In this 4 half-day learner’s workshop, participants learn a unique consultation and intervention strategy that they can integrate into their work whether in high-risk, special needs, child-care, or other early childhood fields.
In this workshop, you will learn . . .

Theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood (birth to 3 years)
Consultation strategies
Elements of a healthy relationship
Infants and the development of trust and security
Toddlers and the development of self
Understanding and intervening with children’s challenging behaviors
Developing intervention plans and individualizing the PFR curriculum

Promoting First Relationships can improve…

Parental sensitivity
Parental knowledge of child development
Parental confidence and competence
Child outcomes
Child Welfare outcomes

Because Promoting First Relationships is a positive, strengths-based model, caregivers are typically open to intervention and gain competence, and thus investment, in their caregiving.
Your fee covers tuition, all curriculum materials including the Promoting First Relationships manual, and a copy of reproducible parent handouts.
What participants are saying . . .

“I loved the video examples which really helped illustrate the principles.”
“Straightforward and doable, lots of real life examples and opportunity to reflect in groups.”
“I liked how the case studies cemented the concepts.”
“I particularly liked the group discussions, latest research information and the handouts.”

Please note: Each training session must have a minimum of 13 people registered 1 week prior to the training date. If this minimum number is not met, PCRP reserves the right to cancel the training. All registrants will be notified of any cancellations.

In and out of sync: Biobehavioral synchrony in the context of early adversity - July 23, 2026
2026-07-23 10:00 - 11:30
July 23, 2026
10 – 11:30am Pacific Time (Seattle) / 1 – 2:30pm Eastern
via Zoom
BARNARD CENTER FREE LECTURE SERIES
In this talk, Dr. Gray will review the state of the science on biobehavioral synchrony between parents and their children, or how parents’ and children’s behavior and physiology coordinate during interaction. The talk will focus on synchrony’s potential for understanding intergenerational transmission of mental health risk, particularly in contexts of early adversity, reviewing research from her lab and other scholars. In addition, she will underscore what we currently do and don’t yet understand about physiological synchrony, highlighting future directions in research as well as clinical implications.

DR. SARAH GRAY, PhD
Dr. Sarah Gray is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut. As a clinician, scholar, and teacher, she focuses on the healing power of relationships. Her research examines the developmental consequences of early life adversity, with a specific focus on intergenerational processes. She is an academy of fellows member at Zero to Three, and her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Brain & Behavior Foundation, and the American Psychoanalytic Association.

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Promoting First Relationships® (PFR) OPEN HOUSE
2026-07-29 09:00 - 09:30 | Zoom, United States
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
9:00am – 9:30am PT (Seattle)
via Zoom
Register Here
Join us on Zoom January 21st to learn more about Promoting First Relationships® (PFR) and how this program can support the work that you do with families and young children.

PFR offers a unique and engaging way of working with caregivers to help them feel confident in their parenting and experience joy in their relationship with their child.
This open house will include a brief presentation and time for questions and answers.

From Early Social Interactions to Language Development: Brain-to-Brain Synchrony and Natural Social Stimuli - August 12, 2026
2026-08-12 09:00 - 10:30
August 12, 2026
9 – 10:30am Pacific Time (Seattle) / 12 – 1:30pm Eastern
via Zoom
BARNARD CENTER FREE LECTURE SERIES
From birth, infants engage in rich social interactions that rely on both verbal cues (e.g., caregiver speech) and nonverbal signals (e.g., body odors). My research examines how early multisensory social input shapes social brain development and supports later language outcomes.
In earlier work, I investigated social chemosignaling in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Using subliminal presentation of natural (fear-related body odor) and synthetic chemosignals, I demonstrated altered autonomic and behavioral responses in adults with autism, suggesting that atypical processing of social olfactory cues may contribute to difficulties in social communication.
Extending this work to early development, I examined how maternal chemosignals influence infant social behavior and neural coupling. Using ecological interaction paradigms and dual-EEG, I found that exposure to maternal body odor enhances infant–adult brain-to-brain synchrony, increases attention to faces, and promotes positive arousal and approach behavior during interactions with an unfamiliar adult. To examine whether mother–infant inter-brain synchrony is influenced by maternal behavior, I examined its association with two well-studied maternal behavioral orientations: sensitivity and intrusiveness. I found that higher maternal sensitivity was associated with greater mother–infant neural synchrony. Maternal sensitivity has consistently been linked to positive socio-emotional outcomes and language development.
My current research focuses on how early caregiver–infant interactions support language development. In longitudinal studies, I found that maternal sensitivity, infant-directed speech (IDS), and conversational turn-taking as early as 3 months predict language outcomes in the third year of life. Furthermore, early brain-to-brain synchrony between caregivers and infants predicts later language outcomes and mediates the association between maternal sensitivity and language development.
Together, this work identifies the importance of early social interactions for social development and language acquisition, and highlights brain-to-brain synchrony as a potential mechanism linking early caregiving to long-term developmental outcomes.

YAARA ENDEVELT, PhD

Dr. Yaara Endevelt-Shapira is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on human social interactions and social neurodevelopment, using behavioral and neurophysiological methods to measure interpersonal behavioral and neural synchrony between infants and adults during natural interactions.
Dr. Endevelt-Shapira earned her B.Sc. in Food Engineering and Biotechnology from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in the Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she worked with Prof. Noam Sobel on olfaction and social chemosignaling in autism spectrum disorders. She then conducted her postdoctoral training at the Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience at Reichman University, working with Prof. Ruth Feldman on social chemosignaling during early development, including the use of dual-EEG to assess adult–infant inter-brain synchrony.
Her work has shown that exposure to maternal body odor during interaction with an unfamiliar female increased brain-to-brain synchrony as well as infant’s visual attention to faces, positive arousal, and approach behavior. In addition, maternal behaviors, such as sensitivity and intrusiveness during face-to-face interactions, are associated with levels of inter-brain synchrony between mothers and infants. In her current research, she employs longitudinal designs to examine how early caregiver–infant interactions at 3 months of age, parental speech input and responsiveness, as well as brain-to-brain synchrony, and physiological measures (e.g., heart rate) relate to later language development and school readiness.

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Supporting Trust and Exploration in Reflective Supervision/Consultation - August 20, 2026
2026-08-20 09:00 - 12:00
Supporting Trust and Exploration in Reflective Supervision/Consultation
A Training for Home Visiting Supervisors and Consultants
August 20, 2026
9 – 12 pm Pacific Time / 12 -3 pm Eastern Time
via Zoom
3 CEs available
Why Attend?
Reflective Supervision is the heart of relational practice. This training will help you create supervisory spaces that foster trust, curiosity, and growth—essential for supporting home visitors and the families they serve.
What You’ll Learn:
✔ Understand the Primary Goals of Reflective Supervision/Consultation

Build safety and confidence for home visitors
Promote reflective capacity and professional growth
See through the parent’s and child’s lens for attuned support

✔ Deepen Understanding of Human Social Emotional Needs

Explore how the 10 Human Social Emotional Needs show up in the work
Learn how to stay connected during difficult interactions
Create responsive and containing supervisory relationships

✔ Balance Exploration and Guidance

Navigate reflective exploration vs. directive guidance
Support growth while maintaining accountability
Cultivate a curious, compassionate, developmentally informed stance

Please note: Each training session must have a minimum of 13 people registered 1 week prior to the training date. If this minimum number is not met, PCRP reserves the right to cancel the training. All registrants will be notified of any cancellations.

Promoting First Relationships® Level One VIRTUAL Workshop – September 15, 17, 21 & 23, 2026
2026-09-15 09:00 - 2026-09-23 12:30
4 Half-Days Level 1 Workshop
September 15, 17 21 & 23, 2026
9:00 – 12:30pm each day Pacific Time (SEATTLE) / 12:00 – 3:3opm Eastern Time (NY)
via Zoom
14 CEs available
Promoting First Relationships workshop gives professionals the knowledge, tools, and strategies to support and guide caregivers in building nurturing relationships with children (0-5). The Promoting First Relationships evidence-based program integrates theory, practice and intervention.
In this 4 half-day learner’s workshop, participants learn a unique consultation and intervention strategy that they can integrate into their work whether in high-risk, special needs, child-care, or other early childhood fields.
In this workshop, you will learn . . .

Theoretical foundations of social and emotional development in early childhood (birth to 3 years)
Consultation strategies
Elements of a healthy relationship
Infants and the development of trust and security
Toddlers and the development of self
Understanding and intervening with children’s challenging behaviors
Developing intervention plans and individualizing the PFR curriculum

Promoting First Relationships can improve…

Parental sensitivity
Parental knowledge of child development
Parental confidence and competence
Child outcomes
Child Welfare outcomes

Because Promoting First Relationships is a positive, strengths-based model, caregivers are typically open to intervention and gain competence, and thus investment, in their caregiving.
Your fee covers tuition, all curriculum materials including the Promoting First Relationships manual, and a copy of reproducible parent handouts.
What participants are saying . . .

“I loved the video examples which really helped illustrate the principles.”
“Straightforward and doable, lots of real life examples and opportunity to reflect in groups.”
“I liked how the case studies cemented the concepts.”
“I particularly liked the group discussions, latest research information and the handouts.”

Please note: Each training session must have a minimum of 13 people registered 1 week prior to the training date. If this minimum number is not met, PCRP reserves the right to cancel the training. All registrants will be notified of any cancellations.

Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy (PMMH) OPEN HOUSE
2026-09-16 11:00 - 12:00
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm PT (Seattle)
via Zoom
Register Here
Attend this 30 minute free information session to learn about Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy (PMMH) and how this training can help your practice.

What is Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy?
PMMH addresses the importance of helping the pregnant woman achieve a healthier mental and emotional state during pregnancy in order to improve the chances that she and her child will experience a healthier relationship.

Research has shown that a mother’s mental health and emotional state during pregnancy has an immediate and direct impact on her relationship with her infant.
In turn, the health of the mother-child relationship directly impacts the child’s quality of life.
By helping the pregnant woman improve her mental and emotional state during pregnancy, we are able to increase the chances that she and her child will experience a healthier relationship.

Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy VIRTUAL Workshop – September 21-24, 2026
2026-09-21 08:00 - 2026-09-24 12:00 | Zoom
September 21-24, 2026
8:00am – 12:00pm each day Pacific Time (Seattle)
via Zoom
15 CEs available
This workshop addresses the importance of helping the pregnant woman achieve a healthier mental and emotional state during pregnancy in order to improve the chances that she and her child will experience a healthier relationship. Interventions allow for individualized and creative approaches that capture your client’s interest.

Research has shown that a mother’s mental health and emotional state during pregnancy has an immediate and direct impact on her lifelong relationship with her infant.
In turn, the health of the mother-child relationship directly impacts the child’s quality of life, possibly throughout the lifespan.
By helping the pregnant woman improve her mental and emotional state during pregnancy, we are able to increase the chances that she and her child will experience a healthier relationship.

Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy training covers issues critical to the development of the early mother-child relationship including . . .

High-risk pregnancies
Unresolved grief or loss
Normal, typical course of pregnancy
Domestic violence
Women experiencing depression or other mental health disruptions

Your fee covers tuition and all curriculum materials including two Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy books, one covering Theory and Practice and one on Activities, an assessment guide, and 56 reproducible handouts/activities.
What participants are saying . . .

“Excellent. Fantastic. I love that I’m leaving with real, simple interventions that I can start using tomorrow. A very practicial application to help Mom through all aspects of pregnancy.”

“The presenter was good at connecting the concepts in a personal and positive way.”
“I feel more confident in being able to help my families.”

Please note: Each training session must have a minimum of 13 people registered 1 week prior to the training date. If this minimum number is not met, PCRP reserves the right to cancel the training. All registrants will be notified of any cancellations.
