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SUMMARY:From NICU to Home: Supporting Perinatal Mental Health and Neurodivergent Families
DESCRIPTION:This free training is open to WA state professionals who serve perinatal families and is funded by DCYF Strengthening Families Washington in partnership with Perinatal Support of Washington. Learn more and register. \nContinuing Education: \n\n5.5 CEUs pending for LICSW\, LMHC\, LMFT\n5.5 Contact Hours approved for RNs: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing\, Provider Number 17084 for 5.5 contact hours.\n\nTrainer: Dr. Kiley Hanish\, OTD\, OTR/L\, PMH-C
URL:https://earlyrelationalhealth.org/event/from-nicu-to-home-supporting-perinatal-mental-health-and-neurodivergent-families/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Offerings
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SUMMARY:Regionwide Supervisor FAN
DESCRIPTION:What is the Supervisor FAN? \nThe FAN is a mental framework and practical tool developed for professionals working with families. It helps you attune to the caregivers you work with\, stay grounded\, and deepens your reflective practice. It supports the parallel process and protects against burnout. The FAN is also an effective approach in supervisory and leadership roles. \nThe Supervisor FAN focuses on strengthening the supervisor-supervisee relationship\, resulting in supervisors and supervisees who are more reflective and collaborative\, as well as supervisors who are more engaged and less stressed. Enrollment is intentionally limited to 15 participants\, who are partnered for mentoring\, to allow supervisors to connect with each other around shared experiences. \nDates and Times: You must attend all level 1 and level 2 sessions. If you are not available for any of the dates below\, please check our training schedule for future trainings\, or contact FAN@cooperhouse.org for more information. \nLevel 1 \n\nThursday\, June 4th\, 2026 9-12:15 PT\nMonday\, June 8th\, 2026 9-12:15 PT\nTuesday\, June 9th\, 2026 9-12:15 PT\nWednesday\, June 10th\, 2026 9-12:15 PT\n\nSix months of mentoring (1 hour per month) \n\nJuly-December\, 2026\n\nLevel 2 \n\nTBD over 2 days in January 2027\n\nRegister early! We are only able to mail training materials to people who register by May 20th\, 2026! \nRegister now. \n 
URL:https://earlyrelationalhealth.org/event/regionwide-supervisor-fan-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Offerings
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SUMMARY:Carrying More Than a Child: Addressing Racial Stress\, Trauma\, and Emotional Safety in Black Maternal Mental Health Through Community-Based Care
DESCRIPTION:This training is open to WA state professionals who serve perinatal families in WA state. Priority registration for professionals serving Spokane County. \nCarrying More Than a Child explores the emotional\, cultural\, and structural realities that shape Black maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum. This training invites community supporters to deepen their understanding of the pressures many mothers navigate beyond childbirth\, while offering practical ways to provide supportive\, culturally responsive care during the perinatal period. Participants will gain insights and tools that help strengthen connection\, safety\, and well-being for mothers and families. \nLearn more and register.
URL:https://earlyrelationalhealth.org/event/carrying-more-than-a-child-addressing-racial-stress-trauma-and-emotional-safety-in-black-maternal-mental-health-through-community-based-care/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Offerings
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Beats\, Indigenous Songs: The Connection between Music and Early Learning and Development\, Part II
DESCRIPTION:Songs and music play a big part in the growth and development of our Indige-babies! In Season Two of Turtle Talk\, we started a conversation about Indigenous Beats\, Indigenous Songs; in that episode (aired November 2025)\, we explored samples of Indigenous children’s songs and opened pathways to wondering how Indigenous beats can be restored to our families and communities. In this episode\, we build on our first conversation to discover the ways families can create music together\, understand the impact of songs and music on children’s development\, and envision how music can be a significant way to develop and inspire children’s voices\, connecting them to our ancestors\, culture\, and language. \nTurtle Talk is back! We invite Native parents\, teachers\, and caregivers\, along with those working with Native children and families and those interested in the work of raising our Indigenous children\, to join us for the third season of Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige-babies\, a BTC Family-to-Family Real Talk virtual conversation series! \nAll episodes are free and open access — register today for one or all conversations! All are welcome! \nThe series is convened by the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative (IELC) Institute and is a fun way to engage parents and families in thinking forward about how we collectively raise Indigenous children and babies in a contemporary and fast-growing technological\, global\, Indigenous society. Turtle talk refers to our animal relatives speaking with one another and with us. The play on Indigenous babies\, “Indige-babies” for short\, in the title calls us to look just over the horizon and ask ourselves\, “What will the world be like for our babies/children and families? How does being raised in this fast-evolving world with the increasing demand of digital\, technological\, and cultural engagement impact our traditions and approaches to raising our babies?”
URL:https://earlyrelationalhealth.org/event/indigenous-beats-indigenous-songs-the-connection-between-music-and-early-learning-and-development-part-ii-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Offerings
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SUMMARY:From Early Social Interactions to Language Development: Brain-to-Brain Synchrony and Natural Social Stimuli
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn 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. \nExtending 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. \nMy 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. \nTogether\, 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. Register now. \nYAARA ENDEVELT\, PhD\n \nDr. 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. \nDr. 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. \nHer 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.
URL:https://earlyrelationalhealth.org/event/from-early-social-interactions-to-language-development-brain-to-brain-synchrony-and-natural-social-stimuli/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Offerings
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SUMMARY:Keep the Heart of Your Program Running: Documenting Program Materials that Reflect Your Values and Community
DESCRIPTION:Join this half-day workshop with other community organizations to build or add to a blueprint of your program to ensure program elements are based on community input and best practices and can best meet the needs of your communities. \nParticipants will create a guide for program implementation describing core areas such as guiding principles and values\, community characteristics and outreach/engagement plan\, staffing qualities and structure\, how to implement key practices and activities\, curriculum\, screening tools\, etc. and a list of materials useful to implementing the program. Participants will share ideas and reflect with peers throughout the session. The event will include optional open networking time after 1:30 pm. \nLearn more and register.
URL:https://earlyrelationalhealth.org/event/keep-the-heart-of-your-program-running-documenting-program-materials-that-reflect-your-values-and-community/
LOCATION:Seattle
CATEGORIES:Community Offerings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260624T103000
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SUMMARY:Staff Wellness. Teachers are overwhelmed. How staff wellness connects to everything else.
DESCRIPTION:Challenging Behaviors and Beyond: A Monthly Series for Head Start Programs and Consultants \nGeorgetown University’s Thrive Center is hosting a free monthly series to strengthen this resilient community and help your staff learn how to deal with challenging behaviors. Each session features national experts delivering practical\, research-backed strategies and a Head Start program from somewhere in the country sharing what’s working on the ground. Learn more and register.
URL:https://earlyrelationalhealth.org/event/staff-wellness-teachers-are-overwhelmed-how-staff-wellness-connects-to-everything-else/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Offerings
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SUMMARY:From Managing Behaviors to Healing Them
DESCRIPTION:NeuroRelational Care is a brain and relationship-based approach to therapy\, social work\, teaching\, and home visiting that reduces toxic stress and increases resilience in children and families. Come learn about the NeuroRelational Framework (NRF) with Betty Peralta & Amelia Bolyard! \n6/29\, 7/20\, 8/10 & 8/24/26 – 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm \nLearn more and register.
URL:https://earlyrelationalhealth.org/event/from-managing-behaviors-to-healing-them/2026-06-29/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Offerings
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