Happy Roots Foundation is a private charitable foundation serving Ottawa and Lanark County. Our mission is to nurture infant and early childhood mental health by fostering secure connections between young kids and their caregivers. We work with charities in the Ottawa area to provide funding for children’s mental health in the early years, from birth to age six. We believe the single greatest thing we can do for children’s mental health is to support parents in building strong, secure connections with their kids in the earliest years. By focusing on connection–especially for families living with adversity–we seek to destigmatize socially entrenched beliefs about early childhood mental health and parenting, and to promote early intervention as a means of prevention.