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Our Mission and Our Vision
Well Baby Center, 12316 Venice Blvd., Mar Vista, CA 90066
Phone # 310-402-BABY (2229) Fax # 310-390-3955
info@wellbabycenter.org
Our Mission
Through this website and our community center in Mar Vista, California, we strive to support families from the very beginning—and to help parents to be curious about the meaning of their own and their children’s behavior. By fostering security within their primary relationships, parents help children become more resilient and flexible in the face of life’s many inevitable challenges.
Our Vision
Well Baby’s integrative, pan-disciplinary perspective is drawn from psychoanalytic family systems, developmental psychology, and attachment theories. We are also informed by cutting-edge infant brain research. We believe that when we as parents are able to mindfully reflect on our interactions with our children -- including the feelings that might be underlying their behavior as well as how our own childhood experiences might be affecting the way in which we're responding to them, three things occur: we don't burden them with our unresolved conflicts, we help them to reach their developmental potential, and we help them to build satisfying relationships with others. Together, Well Baby Center and WellBabyCenter.org form a new model that combines the physical with the virtual, the individual with the group, and the theoretical with the practical. Well Baby Center relies on the interplay between the expert, the community, and the parent for its strength, growth, and vitality toward its goal of providing needed support for new families.