Brazelton Touchpoints Training
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.
Course Format
This course consists of nine 2.5 hour synchronous training hours and six monthly one-hour virtual reflective practice sessions. Comprised of six modules, each takes about four hours to complete, and includes a live, interactive Zoom session, assignments for independent practice, and online discussion. Attendance is required at all live sessions. Participants who complete the course will receive a certificate from both the IABA Research & Education Foundation and the Brazelton Touchpoints Center.
This course is approved for 20 General Continuing Education Credits.
What You Will Learn
Strategies for building partnerships with parents that promote family strengths
A framework to understand why children’s behavior can sometimes be challenging and confusing
Techniques for talking with families about child development concerns
How to actively listen to families and collaboratively solve problems related to child development or a child-family relationship
Upcoming Sessions
Touchpoints
Thursdays
10:30AM - 1PM PST
October 17, 24, 31
November 7, 14 & 21
December 5, 12, 19
Touchpoints
Thursdays
4:15PM - 6:45PM PST
October 17, 24, 31
November 7, 14 & 21
December 5, 12, 19
Bundle & Save
Save when you register for both Touchpoints & Zero-to-Three Trainings! Both trainings provide complementary tools to help build a strong foundation of growth and learning.
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.