Right from the Start
Right from the Start is an attachment-based course for parents of infants under 2 years. Dr. Alison Niccols of the Infant-Parent Program, Chedoke Child and Family Centre, and her colleagues, have developed this 8-session parenting course, to enhance caregiver skills in reading infant cues and responding sensitively. The course uses attachment theory as a framework and active adult learning principles. Right from the Start is appropriate for parents of all infants under 2, and especially those at risk for social, emotional, behavioural and/or developmental difficulties.

We offer training for prospective "Right from the Start" course leaders on a regular schedule. If you have more than 15 staff interested in taking the training, and are interested in hosting a session in your local community, please contact us directly. You will find information about our next scheduled leader training session below.

New RFTS Videos Coming Soon!
The Infant-Parent Program recently completed a revision of the existing video vignettes. The new video clips have much improved technical quality both in sound and in visual quality. As well, in response to feedback, the video uses a wider diversity of interaction situations and families and family members, including boys and girls with and without special needs, fathers and mothers, teen parents, and parents and babies from other cultures.

We will use the new video clips on a trial basis in the early fall during RFTS sessions run in Hamilton to see if they are well received by the parents in that group and if the leaders find them helpful in bringing out the important points in the curriculum. We will make any necessary further revisions prior to releasing the new videotape in the late fall of 2005 or early winter of 2006 and forward information on how to order the new videotape at that time.

RFTS is Going Even More International!
Though it has been offered for several years across Canada and in communities in Sweden and the United States, other countries (i.e., Brazil and the Dominican Republic) have expressed interest. With the help of Dr. Alison Niccols, Chedoke alumnus Dr. John McLennan (now at the University of Calgary) was successful in receiving a grant to study the transport of a Canadian intervention to a third world community.

Right from the Start Leader Training, Spring 2006

• March 2 & 3, 2006 - Coburg, Ontario
  For more information, read this brochure with registration form, or contact Nancy Little at nlittle@ymcanorthumberland.com

• March 23 & 24, 2006 - Burlington, Ontario
  Workshop brochure with registration form is available here.
   
• TBA 2006 - Windsor, Ontario; Sao Paulo, Brazil

Would you like to organize a training session in your community? If so, contact Dr. Alison Niccols at niccols@hhsc.ca.

Complete Overview

Manual Table of Contents

Research Articles about Right from the Start

Order form for Right from the Start materials