Just Released: NASEM Consensus Report on Early Relational Health

Dani Dumitriu, Funding Director of the Center for Early Relational Health, recently had the honor of serving on the committee for a landmark NASEM Consensus Report on Early Relational Health, which released this month. 

Among many important concepts, the report establishes: 

• A strong stance that relationships aren’t just a “nice-to-have” — they’re a biological need
• The concept of a sensitive early life period for developing relational capacity, in the 0-3 years
• An overview of research needed in order to promote long-term child and family physical and socioemotional outcomes, including the first ever published recognition that Early Relational Health is comprised of a multitude of constructs, and the need to understand how these constructs individually and synergistically map onto life-course outcomes

“It was a privilege to dig into this content with ERH luminaries like Andrew Garner and David Willis, NASEM's incredibly talented Emily P. Backes, our center’s own Andréane Lavallée, and many more field-leading academics.” — Dani Dumitriu, Director, Center for Early Relational Health.

We hope this consensus report can be a useful resource on the road to making a difference for children and families across the country.