Summary
This first-of-it's-kind program offers parents a framework and practices to guide toddlers in their emotional development, providing a solid foundation for a child's sense of worth. Parents learn how to strengthen their connection with their toddlers, creating positive, measurable, lasting change in both the parents, and toddlers, lives.
Mission
Encourage and facilitate the parenting of toddlers through enhancing the parent-child emotional connection, creating a foundation that allows each child to thrive emotionally, socially and intellectually.
Goals
Provide parents a framework that allows them to feel less stress, improve a child's sense of well-being and emotional regulation, and measurably improve the parent-toddler connection.
Objectives
- offer 8 week Parent/Toddler Education Classes locally throughout the year
- conduct research for the purpose of creating an evidence-based program for publication, reliability, validity and generalizability
- manualize the program
- train other facilitators
- have the program offered in other locations regionally, nationally and internationally
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