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Promoting First Relationships

Contact: Jean Kelly, 206-543-8528

Core Function: Technical Assistance and Outreach Training

Promoting First Relationships (PFR) is a prevention program designed to give professionals, parents, and other caregivers the knowledge and skills they need to provide nurturing environments for young children. The program aims to promote children's social-emotional development through developing responsive and nurturing caregiver-child relationships. To do this, PFR develops materials and provides training opportunities to a variety of audiences.

The PFR curriculum and supporting materials cover issues critical to supporting and guiding caregivers in building nurturing and responsive relationships with children.

These resources promote the development of security and trust in infancy and healthy development of self during toddlerhood, and they also help caregivers intervene and understand a child’s challenging behavior.

PFR also provides three-day workshops and on-site follow-up training throughout the state of Washington. The three-day workshops integrate practice, theory, and intervention. Various learning approaches are used by trainers that include reflective dialogue, role-playing, and video case studies. Such approaches allow participants to apply the framework directly to issues faced in their work environment.

More Information

Promoting First Relationships website