Title: Belonging Begins at Home: Building Attachment within the Family
Date: April 25th, 2024
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST/ 6:00pm - 7:00pm EST
Description:
The single most crucial ingredient in laying a healthy foundation for children is caring, nurturing relationships. For babies, this foundation develops as caregivers and parents build bonds and attachment. Caregivers are a baby’s first teacher, from initial communication skills and sweet coos to little fingers reaching for their mother’s dinner plate. Each part of the journey is remarkable and carves a special place in a caregiver’s heart. AIMHiTN strives to assist caregivers and families as they begin this journey, presenting a supportive collective of four trainings specifically targeting how caregivers can thrive in their pivotal role of bonding and attachment. Bonding with an infant is developed through consistent interactions from those that are most important around them: mothers, fathers, siblings, and caregivers alike. After this bond is strengthened, attachment wraps a baby in security and warmth, through an infant’s first two love languages: touch and feeding. This second training serves to identify the Father's role in a child's relationship, as well as create a place of belonging for each family member that assists in developing attachment with a new infant in the family. The training will identify how family's can be involved in the infant's early days of developing attachment and how mother's can support in creating opportunities for this attachment to grow.
Presenter(s): Kristin Dunn, MS, CTRS, IECMH-E®