Relationship Roots' vision is that young children have the critical experiences they need to support optimal brain and social-emotional development so they can reach their full potential and lead happy, healthy, successful lives.
Our Mission
Relationship Roots recognizes that current brain science tells us that young children need numerous positive, nurturing relationship experiences for their brains to develop properly and for them to gain the social-emotional skills necessary to live happy, healthy, successful lives. Children in full-time childcare spend up to 10 hours a day with a workforce that, by and large, has received little or no training in how to provide these critical experiences. Therefore, our mission is to increase the quality of childcare, especially as it relates to nurturing experiences and the social-emotional development of young children. Relationship Roots fulfills this mission by providing programs and services to increase the competency of the early care and education (ECE) workforce.
Activities
Relationship Roots works to accomplish this mission through the following activities:
• Provide high quality education and coaching services that give ECE professionals the knowledge and skills they need to promote healthy social-emotional development, manage challenging behavior in a positive way, and create strongly nurturing relationships with the children they care for.• Make available comprehensive curriculum materials that support ECE professionals in providing positive guidance, nurturing relationships, a positive classroom environment, and social skills education for young children.
• Provide social skills training for ECE professionals to support them both in and out of their work lives and to enable them to better model positive social skills for children.
• Provide parenting education that helps parents understand and implement the same positive strategies and techniques used in their children’s childcare setting.
• For children who need more support beyond what is provided in the above activities, provide mental health consultations in ECE settings to help the children, their care providers and parents.
• Design all services based on developmentally appropriate practices, brain science (as it relates to the young child’s growing brain), and evidence-based best practices for supporting social-emotional growth in young children.
