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BOOK BOOKLET
A
Three Key Years s an Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellow,
TALK- READ- PLAY-SING I believe this resource is exactly what every parent
To Support & Help and professional working with young children should
Every Child in America receive as a gift. I am confident the information
provided in this booklet has the potential to
By George Halverson significantly influence the trajectory of an infant’s life.
“Too many people do not know
From:The First 60 Days Forward
that the first three years of life by Jan Ference, BEd, MS, IPMHF
are the key and most important
years when brains develop in
our children.
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Biologically, those are the years
where we make the
overwhelming majority of the Establishing a Neuro-Nurturing Community
neuron connections in our to Support Flourishing Families
brains — and those are the
years when each brain goes “Research repeatedly shows that the first two to three months of an
through the processes that will infant’s life have a major impact on neurodevelopment that sets a
determine both the physical trajectory that impacts life-long well-being. This webinar focuses on
infrastructure of the brain and how a community can scale up an ecosystem strategy to powerfully
the key future capabilities of and positively impact that critical stage in enough children to
each brain.” transform community wellbeing. A panel of expert speakers share
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“We now know that there are Community Ecosystem and how that recipe can be refined and
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some extremely positive
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emotional stability levels of
children that happen in those
firs weeks and months of life..”
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