Brazelton Touchpoints Training

IABA Research and Education Foundation is a designated Brazelton Touchpoints training and mentoring site. Our Touchpoints Training Sites deliver Touchpoints training and mentoring in our local communities to professionals in early childhood care and education, early intervention, child welfare, home visiting, perinatal and pediatric health, mental health, public libraries, social services, and other family-facing fields.

Our Touchpoints sites work to:

  • Support goals in delivering effective services to families

  • Develop a common language and framework for engaging children, families, and communities of care

  • Enhance providers’ child and family engagement skills through Touchpoints training

  • Create seamless systems of care where families become more competent and confident in their own abilities to parent their child

 

Brazelton Touchpoints: The How of Child & Family Engagement

Touchpoints: The How of Child and Family Engagement is an intensive training program that introduces the Touchpoints Approach, which is an evidence-based approach to building strong family-child relationships from before birth through age 5.

  • Participants who implement Touchpoints in their practice partner with families to lay the vital foundation for children’s early learning and healthy development. Touchpoints provides a practical, preventive approach that supports professionals in forming strength-based partnerships with families.

    Who should participate in this training?

    All professionals who work with young children and their families, including

    • Early Care Educators,

    • Family Child Care Providers

    • Home Visitors

    • Pediatric Primary Care Providers

    • Early Intervention Educators

    • Family Support Providers,

    • Child Welfare Workers

    CEUs/CPD (pending) available for participation in this training.

  • Participants will learn:

    • Strategies to build partnerships with parents that promote family and child strengths.

    • A framework to understand infant, toddler, and child development, and the behaviors that can be challenging and confusing that arise as development unfolds.

    • Techniques for talking with families about infant and child development concerns.

    • How to actively listen to families and collaboratively solve problems related to child development or a child-family relationship.

    Training Outcomes:

    For providers:

    • Increased knowledge of infant, child, and family developmental processes.

    • Reduction in child behaviors that adults find challenging.

    • Positive attitudes about families and family engagement.

    • Increased staff retention.

    For families:

    • Reduced parenting stress.

    • Increased parental confidence and competence.

    • Increased knowledge of infant and child developmental processes.

    • Improved provider-family relationships.

    For children:

    • Improved social and emotional outcomes.

    What to Expect During the Training:

    • Interactive, learner-centered training led by IABA Research & Education Foundation staff.

    • Hybrid or in-person formats are available. The hybrid format includes virtual, interactive sessions led by a facilitator, assignments for independent practice, and online discussion boards.

    • Six monthly 1-hour virtual reflective practice sessions, following completion of the training sessions.

    • A small class size that enhances opportunities for interactive learning.

    • Participants receive a certificate of participation.

Dates: May 23rd, June 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, July 11th - 11am-3pm PST

Presenters: Lori Ann Dotson, Allison Liu, Janette Miranda

Cost: $695

IABA's Touchpoints Training Site is a member of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center Learning Network, a national and international learning community of individuals, programs, organizations, and systems of care actively training and mentoring providers in the Touchpoints Approach. The BTCLN currently includes roughly 60 Training Site Members in more than 20 states, the District of Columbia, and in Canada, Italy, Portugal, and Singapore. Touchpoints links them to each other as a universal language for supporting family and child development.

Stay tuned for IABA Foundation’s upcoming Brazelton Touchpoints training and mentoring opportunities in 2024, and subscribe to our newsletter below to be the first to hear when the calendar launches.