Promoting First Relationships® in Pediatrics

An interactive program to learn how to nurture and support the parent-child relationship during everyday clinic interactions with families and children. Gain valuable tools and strategies to enhance your practice and support parents in understanding social-emotional development and difficult behaviors in young children.

PFR in Pediatrics will help you observe and support responsive caregiving during clinic visits by understanding the foundations of early childhood social-emotional development and elements of safe, stable and nurturing child-caregiver relationships.

Approach well child-care through a relationship focused lens including feeding and sleeping by learning developmental timing of key changes and their impact on the parent-child relationship.

Reframe challenging behaviors for families by helping caregivers recognize the unmet social and emotional needs that underlie their child’s behavior.

Apply specific skills that translate principles of trauma-informed care, cultural humility and strengths-based approaches into everyday clinic interactions ensuring that families feel safe, valued and effective in raising young children.

Experience a renewed sense of meaning and joy during your interactions and visits using the relationship-based framework and skills.

Members of the multidisciplinary primary care team – front desk staff, care coordinators, medical assistants, pediatricians, family medicine providers, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, therapists, allied health professionals, and navigators.

Take the E-Learning Course or attend a virtual Workshop. The virtual Promoting First Relationships in Pediatrics workshop is offered annually. 

Host a Workshop! Bring a workshop to your practice, agency or training program. Email: pcrp@uw.edu to get started.