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.

Upcoming Sessions

Save the Date
We’re partnering with Children & Nature Network to elevate the importance of nature for young children and families. The event will explore how nature connection supports early relational health, mental health, and child development. Panelists from Washington state and beyond will share stories of the impact of their work connecting children with nature.
Join us on Thursday, June 4th, from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
CEUs available for Mental Health Providers, STARS pending.
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
- Rooted in Relationship: Latina Immigration, Refugee Experience, and the Power of Early Relational Health (This event was intentionally not recorded.)
- Early Relational Health & Advocacy
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.