MERTIL for Parents is an educational and family conversational approach to building early relational trust. 

The paper shares the MERTIL program, from its origins as a national education program for early childhood specialists, through to its current offering of a low cost parent education platform.  Jenn will share practice guidelines that merge Infant mental health and family therapy constructs with psychoeducational approaches to trauma healing in young families. We focus on the invaluable contributions of the infant’s voice to their family's development, including recovery from intergenerational trauma, with early evidence from longitudinal research.  Participants will consider the purpose and possibilities of the MERTIL program across multiple contexts of care,  with a focus on leveraging the single session framework to safely utilise the infant’s voice to support their family to move forward from histories of parenting trauma.