AC21 - C1 - At the Feet of Storytellers: The Development of Early Relational Health Conversations

Marie-Celeste Condon is an Indigenous Infant and Early Childhood Relational Health Specialist, and Reflective Consultant for HealthySteps sites, the Early Childhood Innovation Network, and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Programs. She is a member of The Sankofa Infant Mental Health History Project™ Steering Collective. Marie-Celeste is a guest living on unceded ancestral lands of Piscataway and Anacostan People, an Elder, mother, sister, researcher, storyteller, weaver, healer and visionary inspired by Mi'kmaq relational guiding principles for culture-centered, collective wellbeing in relationships with Nature, ancestors, current and future generations.

Dominique Charlot-Swilley, Ph.D. is the Director of Provider Wellbeing Practice and Expert Advisor/Technical Assistance of HealthySteps for Early Childhood Innovation Network (ECIN) and Assistant Professor, Center for Child and Human Development. Dr. Charlot-Swilley's work is co-situated at Children's National Medical Center and the early childhood sector. During her work at Children's, she and her colleagues developed a Provider Wellbeing Program for medical providers to help address compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious trauma. Dr. Charlot-Swilley has transitioned her mindfulness wellness work to the early childhood workforce. She is also co-investigator of a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant for early childhood which aims to increase the capacity of early childhood educators to recognize and appropriately respond to the social emotional health of young children. Prior to joining Georgetown and Children's, Dr. Charlot-Swilley served as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, adjunct professor at Howard University, George Washington University, and Montgomery College, Takoma Park, and was Assistant Director of a private practice in Maryland. Dr. Charlot-Swilley has over twenty-five years' experience working with birth to five population and served as an Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant for the Head Start Grantee Office in the District of Columbia. Dr. Charlot- Swilley has also worked on a variety of public and private child and adolescent mental health research initiatives. Dr. Charlot-Swilley completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology at Howard University with a focus on ethnic minority mental health. Her early research work was on parent- child attachment among Caribbean mothers at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami. She has conducted training on trauma and youth violence prevention in Haiti and South Africa. She is married and the mother of three daughters, a singleton and identical twins.

Tininka T. Rahman is the Director of the Infant-Toddler Pillar of the Clark Parent-Child Network at Children's National Hospital. She has over 20 years of experience developing, implementing and managing program services for youth and families in the District of Columbia. She has managed several federally funded community research projects and developed interventions to address secondary pregnancy prevention in adolescents, decreasing health disparities among young families and improving educational outcomes for adolescent parents. Prior to her current position, she managed a comprehensive primary care program for adolescent-headed families and a home visiting program for first-time parents. Tininka is dedicated to advocating for families in the District of Columbia and working to address the health disparities, achievement gaps and other inequalities that exist in the community. She has a Bachelor's degree in Nursing and a Master's in Healthcare Administration. Tininka is a native of the Washington D.C. region and is married with three daughters.