Attachment and Bonding: Fostering Safe and Healthy Relationships

Description:

The first few years are critical in brain development as well as establishing safe, secure and nurturing relationships.  This training can be used or supplemented to learn early child development with the goal of supporting parents and caregivers.  Stressors in the home are risk factors for child abuse and maltreatment.  Professionals will increase their knowledge of development in order to support and improve the role of parents and caregivers.  Just as ACE's, or Adverse Childhood Experiences have the potential to create harm and impact development in children, Positive Childhood Experiences have the potential to enhance development and create a sense of safety in children.

Objectives:

• Identify critical milestones in brain development from birth to five

• Learn tools and strategies to engage with parents of babies and toddlers to foster attachment and bonding

• Explore resources that may be used to implement or compliment parent education materials

• Discover games and books that parents can use to help their child regulate and calm