Centering Parent Collaboration in Advancing Early Relational Health and Transforming Early Childhood

Nurture Connection is committed to building a world in which we understand the science of emotional connection between people, and recognize it as vital to our lifelong health and flourishing—starting with positive relationships in the earliest years of our lives. As a field catalyst for Early Relational Health, we share emerging knowledge and amplify key breakthroughs, innovations, and collaborations to connect field leaders. With a core focus on the prenatal-to-three age span, centering families as leaders is foundational to our work. Our Family Network Collaborative, a unique framework of parent collaboration and co-design in research, prioritizes families feeling safe, valued, and respected—and helps us authentically embed parent voice into the work. This panel provides a unique opportunity to explore Early Relational Health as an upstream approach to helping all families flourish through connected, relational systems. Our interactive session allows attendees to experience our innovative parent collaboration framework firsthand, and explore bringing this impactful co-development strategy to their own work.

Speakers:
Dani Dumitriu
Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Psychiatry, Columbia University

Bryn Fortune
Content Expert Thought Partner, Nurture Connection-Early Relational Health – Family Network Collaborative

Nicole Loveless
Parent Leader for Early Relational Health

Dr. David Willis
Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Georgetown University