Resources

Intro to Attachment (click here to open/close)

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Healthy Child Manitoba Office (HCMO)
bridges departments and governments and, together with the community, works to improve the well-being of Manitoba's children and youth. HCMO focuses on child-centred public policy through the integration of financial and community-based family supports.

 

Attachment Intervention (click here to open/close)

  • The Saskatchewan Prevention Institute is a non-profit organization that works to raise awareness and educate others about the prevention of disabling conditions in children.
  • The Circle of Security Project is an innovative, first-of-its-kind early intervention program designed to alter the developmental pathway of parents and their young children. Glen Cooper, Kent Hoffman, and Bert Powell from Marycliff Institute in Spokane, Washington and Robert Marvin from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia are currently designing this unique, evidence-based program.
  • The Family Relations Institute is a collaboration of researchers and clinicians interested in the development of attachment theory and its applications to service delivery, including psychotherapy, early intervention, social work, and health services.
  • Policy Briefs, from the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, translate the childhood research evidence to inform policy, practice and service delivery. The series is a succinct, easy to read publication aimed to stimulate informed debate about issues that affect children's health and wellbeing.

    Policy Brief 15 explores the importance of secure attachment between young children and their carers. It examines the relationship between stress and nurturing and provides considerations for policy and programs to ensure that young children receive attentive, sensitive and responsive care.
  • Dr. Gordon Neufeld is a highly respected Vancouver-based clinical psychologist with over 35 years of experience with children and those responsible for them. Bestselling author (Hold On to Your Kids), he is a leading interpreter of the developmental paradigm.

Websites (click here to open/close)

Local
  • The Adolescent Parent Interagency Network (APIN) is a network of agencies and professionals in Manitoba who meet monthly with the goal of ensuring high quality service to pregnant and parenting adolescents. The Network facilitates the sharing of information related to existing services and resources, and is funded by Healthy Child Manitoba Office.
Beyond

The Canberra Region Attachment Network Inc. (Australia) has evolved from an informal group of professionals working with children and families, who had been exploring these issues from an attachment perspective.

The ChildTrauma Academy is a not-for-profit organization, based in Houston, Texas, working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research and education. We recognize the crucial importance of childhood experience in shaping the health of the individual, and ultimately, society. By creating biologically-informed child and family respectful practice, programs and policy, The ChildTrauma Academy seeks to help maltreated and traumatized children.

Dr. Daniel Hughes is a clinical psychologist who developed an attachment-focused treatment that relied heavily on the theories and research of attachment and intersubjectivity to guide his model of treatment and parenting. He is the author of three books, including Building the Bonds of Attachment , 2nd edition, (2006), and Attachment Focused Family Therapy (2007). He has provided training and consultations to therapists, social workers and parents throughout the US, Canada, UK, and Australia and provides regular training's at Colby College in Maine, Annville, PA, and London, UK.

The Family Pathways Project is a study, affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance, that focuses on what it is like to go through the transitional years from adolescence to young adulthood. To date, they have interviewed more than 60 young adults and their mothers.

Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMP) is a coalition of professional representatives from agencies concerned with infants and their families. It was initiated in 1988 by the Department of Psychiatry of The Toronto Hospital for Sick Children.

Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health of Tulane University provides a wealth of resources and knowledge about infant development and psychopathology, which are vital to determining the kind of world we want for infants and their families.

NCAST-AVENUW is a self-sustaining program at the University of Washington. Their Mission is to give professionals, parents and other caregivers the knowledge and skills to provide nurturing environments for young children.

Pamela Whyte Consulting: Helping parents and professionals make sense of the children in their care from the inside out.

Project Joy is a grassroots nonprofit that uses the power of play to heal and strengthen children whose lives have been deeply impacted by trauma. Its mission is pretty simple: to ensure that nothing destroys the playfulness of children. Nothing.

Educational Resources (click here to open/close)

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