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Community

Neighbourhoods where families live, work and play.

Caregivers

Parents and other caregivers in the family or community who provide care and protection to infants/young children.

Workforce

Any service provider who touches the lives of infants/young children, i.e. the librarian, the early childhood educator, the mental health specialist etc.

Resilience

Resilience in infants/young children is fostered through healthy relationships, supportive communities and the prevention of adversity.

Brain Development & Stress

Toxic stress interferes with healthy brain development.

Executive Function & Self-regulation

Executive function and self-regulation are a child’s ‘air traffic’ control systems.

Play

Play is the work of children. Learning happens through play.

Brain Development & the Environment

Nurturing environments help to shape the developing brain.

Attachment

Consistent and responsive caregiving fosters secure attachment in infants/young children and sets the stage for healthy child development.

Positive Caring Relationships

Positive, caring relationships in the early years are the ‘building blocks’ for a child’s social-emotional development.

Temperament

A child’s temperament can change over time.

Promotion

Promotion refers to supports that are universally available to optimize the social emotional well-being of infants, young children and their caregivers.

Prevention/Early Intervention

Primary prevention/intervention refers to interventions that target infants, children or caregivers whose social emotional well-being may be at risk due to the presence of risk factors within the individual, family or the community.

Secondary prevention/early intervention refers to interventions that target infants, children or caregivers exhibiting symptoms of compromised social emotional well-being.

Treatment/Intensive

Treatment refers to interventions that target infants, children and caregivers whose social emotional well-being is compromised, and has negatively impacted the caregiver-child relationship.

INFANT / CHILD WELL BEING

CAREGIVER

Caregivers: parents and other caregivers in the family or community who provide care and protection to infants/young children.

WORKFORCE

Workforce: any service provider who touches the lives of infants/young children, i.e. the librarian, the early childhood educator, the mental health specialist etc.

COMMUNITY

Community: neighbourhoods where families live, work and play.

Prevention / Early Intervention

Secondary prevention/early intervention refers to interventions that target infants, children or caregivers exhibiting symptoms of compromised social emotional well-being.

Promotion

Promotion refers to supports that are universally available to optimize the social emotional well-being of infants, young children and their caregivers.

Treatment / Intensive

Treatment refers to interventions that target infants, children and caregivers whose social emotional well-being is compromised, and has negatively impacted the caregiver-child relationship.

8 Areas of Focus

Brain Development & the Environment
Nurturing environments help to shape the developing brain.

Brain Development & Stress
Toxic stress interferes with healthy brain development.

Executive Function & Self-regulation
Executive function and self-regulation are a child's 'air traffic' control systems.

Temperament
A child's temperament can change over time.

Resilience
Resilience in infants/young children is fostered through healthy relationships, supportive communities and the prevention of adversity.

Positive Caring Relationships
Positive, caring relationships in the early years are the 'building blocks' for a child’s social-emotional development.

Attachment
Consistent and responsive caregiving fosters secure attachment in infants/young children and sets the stage for healthy child development.

Play
Play is the work of children. Learning happens through play.