Love Builds Brains:
As we navigate parenting and the pandemic, we want to explore what parents and professionals can do to support infant and children mitigate the negative impacts.

This presentation explores the developing brain and the crucial role relationships with others play in healthy development. Relationships that are warm, responsive, and predictable help our children thrive, relationships that generate intense stress can harm the developing brain. 

This workshop is geared towards parents with children aged 0-4 and  those who work with parents of children ages 0-4.

About Dr. Jean Clinton

Jean M Clinton BMus MD FRCP(C)  
Clinical Professor McMaster University 
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences 

Dr. Jean Clinton is a Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural  Neurosciences at McMaster, division of Child Psychiatry. She is on staff at McMaster  Children’s Hospital with cross appointments in Pediatrics and Family Medicine, and an  Associate in the Department of Child Psychiatry at Sick Children’s Hospital. She is a Fellow  of the Child Trauma Academy, as well as a Zero to Three Academy Fellow since 2013. She  has been a consultant to children and youth mental health programs, child welfare, and  primary care for over 30 years. Dr. Clinton was appointed as an education advisor to the Premier of Ontario and the Minister of Education 2014 - 2018. 

Dr. Clinton is renowned nationally and internationally as an advocate for children’s issues.  Her special interest lies in brain development, and the crucial role relationships and  connectedness play. Jean champions the development of a national, comprehensive child  well-being strategy including a system of early learning and care for all young children and  their families. She is equally committed to ensuring that children’s and youths’ needs and  voices are heard and respected. 

Dr. Clinton has also authored her first book, Love Builds Brains which can be ordered online  through Tall Pines Press, on Amazon and in book stores everywhere.