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.
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.
Rooted in Relationship: Latina Immigration, Refugee Experience, and the Power of Early Relational Health
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 | Early Afternoon
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.
