Please join us to explore this crucial topic with Dr. Mary Dozier, Ph.D., from the University of Delaware.

Infants and young children are dependent on parents or other caregivers to provide nurturing, responsive care. When children fail to receive such care, there are consequences for brain and behavioral development. Such children may behave in ways that serve to push foster and birth parents away rather than elicit nurturing care.

Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is a 10-session home visiting program designed to help foster and birth parents learn to provide nurturing, responsive care, even when children do not elicit such care. Through randomized controlled trials, ABC has been demonstrated to enhance maternal sensitivity and reduce maternal depression, and to improve children’s attachment security, cortisol production, language development, behavioral control, and brain development, among other things.

This presentation will provide an overview of the importance of nurturing, sensitive care and describe ABC’s development, effectiveness, and community implementation.

Participants of this webinar will be able to:

• Identify a consequence of early adversity for children.
• Identify a maternal behavior that can enhance children's outcomes.
• Identify a benefit of an evidence-based parenting program for children’s attachment quality or self-regulation.

This webinar is for all of those working in the perinatal period as well as children birth to 5 and their families.

Date & Time:

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM ET

Friday, February 13, 2026