Supporting Young Children After Trauma: Understanding Trauma, Promoting Healing, and Strengthening Relationships
May 26, 2026
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Community Conversation: Seeding Great Starts: Nature & Early Relational Health
June 4, 2026
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Free Endorsement 101 Webinar
June 9, 2026
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What Is Not Seen: Miscarriage, Grief, Absence, and the Work of Witnessing in Early Relationships
June 23, 2026
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Events
Highlighting Key Finding from NASEM’s Early Relational Health Report
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) new report, Early Relational Health: Building Foundations for Child, Family, and Community Well-Being, was authored by a committee of experts in child development, pediatrics, infant/early childhood mental health, child and family policy, trauma-informed care, developmental neuroscience, family psychology and therapy, parenting, and cross-cultural studies. The webinar
The PICCOLO in Practice
Audience: This training is intended for new or experienced home visiting staff that are new to using the PICCOLO screening tool in their program. Home visiting programs receiving funding through the Washington Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) will receive early registration access. Learning objectives: After completing this training, participants will be able to: · identify
Endorsement Open Office Hours
VirtualJoin Washinton's open office Endorsement hours every Thursday to receive Endorsement Support. Office hours are free to anyone regardless of where you are in your Endorsement journey. Join now!
From Pregnancy to Play: Bridging Perinatal & Infant Mental Health
October Circle Time hosted by Dra. Meyleen Velasquez. Explore practical ways to connect perinatal and infant mental health work through shared reflection and storytelling. Together, we will explore two tools for bridging the caregiver’s and the child’s needs while creating space to discuss current practices, challenges, and insights from the field. Register now Circle Time
Power Play: A Play-Based Approach to Nurture Equity & Belonging in Home Visitor-Family Partnership (In-Person)
**This session will be held IN-PERSON** (lunch included) You already know how to “follow the caregivers’ lead,” “meet the child where they’re at,” and “empower the families.” But when things get rough, some of us tend to step back, hide, or people please while others might step in, dominate, and control the partnership with families. By
MHAYC Provider Spotlight – IECMH Intake Forms
HCA is hosting a series of Provider Spotlights, focused on mental health assessments for young children (MHAYC). During the Spotlights, providers will share about the steps they took to put infant-early childhood mental health (IECMH) services into practice. In October, providers from different regions and settings will share about the importance of mental health assessments
Supporting and Promoting the Mental Health of Our Families
This episode’s conversation will be delivered in Spanish with live English translation. In this episode, we center early childhood mental health for our Latine families and offer practical, culturally affirming strategies for managing stress, anxiety and burnout across generations. In today’s challenging social and political climate, these tools for families are more essential than ever.
The Ripple Effect
This workshop presents an integrative framework for understanding and communication across systems about how trauma can affect a child, a family, and a system. The framework was developed by Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Christopher Layne, and Bob Pynoos of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and is adapted from core trauma concepts identified and ratified
Community Conversation: 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
Endorsement Open Office Hours
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Connecting Early Childhood Development to Climate Change
How can we build public understanding of the impacts of climate change on young children? Join the FrameWorks Institute and the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University on Thursday, October 30 from 2–3pm ET for a deep-dive conversation into new research on how the American public thinks about this intersection, along with an
Transforming the Hospital-to-Home Journey: Strengthening Supports for NICU Caregivers and their Infants Post-Discharge
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