Join the Early Relational Health Conversation!
We welcome you to join our Community Conversations Series where you will have the opportunity to learn more about the Center for Early Relational Health and hear from various community partners as we engage in meaningful dialogue about the importance of Early Relational Health in our ecosystem. This series is designed to bring our community together to explore the potential and impact of our collective efforts to advance Early Relational Health across our state. Through these conversations, we hope to:
- Create Awareness and Generate Shared Excitement: Raise awareness and cultivate a shared energy for advancing Early Relational Health as a community-wide endeavor.
- Build and Strengthen Connections: Foster connections within our Washington community, uniting individuals and organizations with a common interest in Early Relational Health.
- Elevate and Share Community and Family Wisdom: Create a space that centers diverse experiences and perspectives, enriching our understanding and elevating family strengths as central to our collective work.
- Explore Creative, Liberatory, and Community-Generated Practices: Generate collaborative learning around co-design as a strategy to cultivate anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices reflective of our diverse communities.
Community Conversation events are always free to attend. Register below to join us!
Upcoming Sessions
We are excited to embark on this journey with you and to explore ways to collectively advance Early Relational Health in our communities.
Arraigados en la Relación: La Inmigración Latina, la Experiencia del Refugiado y el Poder de la Salud Relacional Temprana
Este evento se llevará a cabo en español con traducción al inglés disponible. Para garantizar un espacio seguro para nuestros asistentes, este evento no será grabado.
Únase a cuidadores, líderes comunitarios y profesionales para compartir historias y reflexiones sobre la experiencia latina de la inmigración y la búsqueda de refugio en EE.UU. todo ello a través de la lente de la salud relacional temprana. Exploraremos cómo las relaciones, especialmente en la primera infancia, pueden ser a la vez desafiadas y profundamente fortalecidas por la experiencia inmigrante, y por qué la construcción de sistemas y enfoques de atención que se centran en la confianza, la pertenencia y la resiliencia importa y honra a las familias latinas.
CEUs disponibles para profesionales de salud mental
¡Gratis!
Miercoles, 8/27 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Rooted in Relationship: Latina Immigration, Refugee Experience, and the Power of Early Relational Health
This event will be held in Spanish with English translation available. To ensure a safe space for our attendees, this event will not be recorded.
This panel brings together caregivers, community leaders, and practitioners to share stories and reflections on the Latina experience of immigration and seeking refuge in the U.S., all through the lens of early relational health.
We’ll talk about how migration shapes early parent-child relationships, what families need to feel safe and connected during big transitions, and how cultural strengths like multi-generational wisdom, storytelling, and collective care helps families heal and thrive.
We’ll explore how relationships, especially in early childhood, can be both challenged and deeply strengthened by the immigrant experience, and why building systems and approaches of care that center trust, belonging, and resilience matters for and honors Latina families.
Wednesday, 8/27 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm
CEUs available for Mental Health Professionals
Free to attend
Early Relational Health & Advocacy
Applying the principles of Early Relational Health in public policy relationships
Have you ever been to a training about public policy advocacy where the trainer says, “It’s all about relationships, that’s the key to being effective”? Whether yes or no, in this 90-minute community conversation, we’ll explore how key principles of Early Relational Health apply to building and sustaining relationships in the public policy arena, relationships with peers/fellow advocates, policymakers, and staff. We’ll explore what we can learn from and how to apply concepts such as self-awareness, reflection, and honoring culture. And, we’ll have space for you to share your successes and challenges in public policy advocacy and get some early relational health support for your advocacy journey!
This unprecedented Community Conversation brings together a unique group, advocates all around the state of Washington, together with a current state legislator, a parent who is an advocate, and a social movement builder, all of whom apply principles of Early Relational Health in their public policy advocacy.
Wednesday, 10/29 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm
CEUs available for Mental Health Professionals
Free to attend
Watch Previous Community Conversations
- What is Early Relational Health?
- Diversity-Informed Practice, Social Justice & Healing
- The Power of Reflection: Reclaiming our Wisdoms, Seeding our Possibilities- Part 1
- Cultivating the Gardens of Reflective Capacities in Early Relational Health – Part 2
- Reflecting Community & Cultural Wisdom in Our Practice
- Centering Family Experience & Voice
- Honoring Lived Experience of Families, Caregivers, and Community to Advance Flourishing
What is Early Relational Health?
On August 1, 2024, we joined with community to participate in our first Community Conversation: What is Early Relational Health? We want to express deep gratitude to our thoughtful and inspiring panel – Shalya Collins, Tui Shelton, Juneli Li, Haydeé Lavariega, and Martha Aguiñiga – for sharing their wisdom, time, and perspectives with us.
