Building the Foundation for Future Healthy Communities Starts with Us Building Respectful Interactions with Infants Today!

Providing respectful relationships with our infants today, will help them grow into caring adults that will build and sustain healthy, hopeful communities in the future. This episode provides listeners with simple, impactful relationship-building strategies to employ with infants. These strategies facilitate healthy infant development, and provide a foundation for building healthy relationships with all humans! To learn more about the Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) approach please visit: https://rie.org; to learn more about the importance of healthy adult-infant relationships on infant brain development please visit: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/three-early-childhood-development-principles-improve-child-family-outcomes/#responsive-relationships

To learn more about the Indiana Grassroots Maternal Child Health Initiative, funded by Riley Children’s Foundation, please visit: https://fsph.iupui.edu/research-centers/centers/cheer/grassroots/index.html

The Community Solutions Podcast is a product of the Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health. To learn more about the department, its education, research and outreach programs, please visit: https://fsph.iupui.edu/about/departments/social-behavioral-sci/index.html.