PROGRAM
Making Sense of the Brain
The June Callwood Centre for Young Women / Jean Tweed Centre for Women and Their Families June 2024 community education Group Facilitator (Co-Delivered)
Program Description
A community education session on brain development and its implications for parenting and early childhood practice, co-delivered to participants at community agencies serving young mothers and families.
Co-delivered with Eilish Medland, C. Summers, and A. Habib at The June Callwood Centre for Young Women and The Jean Tweed Centre (June 2024). This session applies Dr. Bruce Perry’s work on relational neuroscience to parenting contexts, making complex brain science accessible to community participants with varied educational backgrounds.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Understand foundational concepts in brain development across early childhood
- Connect neuroscience concepts to everyday parenting and caregiving decisions
- Recognize how adversity and trauma affect developing brains