ATTACH™ (Attachment and Child Health) is an education program based on successful research.

Research shows:

ATTACH™ strengthens parents' capabilities

ATTACH™ improves children's mental health

Our mission is to support families and promote child and youth's health and mental development at the population level.

We seek to

• Educate parents to reflect on their own and child's perspective.

• Strengthen parents' capabilities.

• Improve children and youth mental health, development and resilience.

• Reduce the number of at-risk families and youth.

• Help the next generation thrive.

ATTACH™ is different from other programs in that it teaches a skill—Reflective Function.
ATTACH™ facilitators are trained to help participants reflect on their own and others’ thoughts and feelings.
Data shows that the ATTACH™ Parenting Program can improve parenting quality and child development by improving Reflective Function skills.

We help parents mentalize by

• Thinking and talking about thoughts and feelings.
• Increasing the ability to mentalize more in everyday life.
• Keep an open mind and questioning things more.

The benefits of practicing mentalizing

• Improved ability to tolerate negative feelings and thoughts.
• Calmness under pressure.
  
  

Our goal —
to promote secure attachment between parents and children

• Teach parents to have their child's mind in mind.
• Teach parents to think about their own thoughts and feelings as they take care of their children.
• Mentalizing helps parents to meet their children's needs

We are currently pilot testing our newest program — ATTACH™ For Youth.

Adapted from the ATTACH™ Parenting Program, this program works with young people between the ages of 11-17 years old understand their own and other people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviour through building Reflective Function, with the goal of improving mental health and building resilience.