"If you didn't come from a healthy family, make sure a healthy family comes from you"

Promoting First Relationships is an approved, evidence-based, home visiting program on these 4 nationally recognized lists. 

 DIVSERSITY-INFORMED TENETS FOR WORK WITH INFANTS, CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 

Irving Harris Foundation Professional Development Network Tenets Working Group 

Tenets-2019.pdf (pfrprogram.org) 

We offer parent support services to provide guidance and support to parents as they navigate through the ups and downs of parenthood. PFR is a reflective program and 

The results above are from our randomized clinical trials in several different settings  and populations. Participants were randomly assigned to receive the 10-week home visiting model or resource and referral (or in one case, Beginning Relationships Program in a tribal setting, where we used a randomized wait-list control design).

• We use video observations to provide positive feedback and support parents’  reflective capacity. 

• Video observation helps parents and caregivers become careful observers of their  child’s nonverbal language. Video observation also helps them see themselves from  their child’s point of view.  

• We create a non-judgmental space to explore and reflect with parents and support them in finding their own insights and wisdom. 

• We use engaging handouts and  activities to help parents see how  they can support their child’s  emotional health. 

• PFR is an evidence-based home visiting program for parents and  young children, birth to five. 

• We use a reflective parenting strategy that supports parents in their unique relationship with their child. 

• PFR is NOT a traditional parenting program. We are a “transformative  relationship program.”