This article was featured in the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute Weekly Newsletter sent out on April 27, 2020.

Helping children at risk Dr. Nicole Letourneau, PhD, (PI) and Dr. Khara Ross, PhD, (Co-PI), are leading a CHIR-SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Grant to scale and spread their successful intervention program called ATTACH™, designed to help vulnerable mothers and their preschool children. CIHR FELLOWSHIPS They will train health and social service professionals in community agencies across Canada, and examine program impacts on parent-child relationship quality, child development, and biological biomarkers of children’s immune function. Drs Letourneau and Martha Hart, PhD, developed the intervention program to promote healthy serve-and-return relationships in families affected by toxic stress ( family violence, additions, low-income) . Letourneau holds the ACHF Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health.