In This Issue | December 2019
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In this issue, we pay tribute to our dear friend and colleague, Betty Bardige, a lifetime advocate for ALL children and families, share plans of BTC's new program innovation, recap the Fall 2019 Learning to Listen conversation series, and share resources, podcasts, and information about upcoming trainings.
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REMEMBERING BETTY BARDIGE, EdD
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Betty Bardige, EdD, devoted her life to equitable access to high quality early care and education, and was
a champion for all children and families and a fierce advocate for the work we all do on behalf of young children and their families. For many years, Betty enthusiastically led the Board of the Brazelton Touchpoints Foundation, which supports the work of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center.
As a developmental psychologist, educator, and parent, Betty’s work focused on the critical early years when children build foundations for relationships, resilience, and lifelong learning. Betty frequently collaborated with local, statewide and national initiatives to help parents, early educators, and engaged communities support young children’s language, literacy, and social-emotional development. Her books “At a Loss for Words” and “Talk to Me Baby” are classics for every parent, professional, funder and policy maker who understands that early language and literacy development begins even before the first days of life.
As an activist, consultant, and foundation leader, Betty worked for more than 30 years to strengthen systems, programs, and policies that affect young children and their families. In addition to serving as Chair of the Brazelton Touchpoints Foundation board, Betty was an active member of the A.L. Mailman Family Foundation board, and had previously served on the boards of Smart from the Start, The National Association for Family Child Care, and Facing History and Ourselves.
Betty Bardige passed away peacefully before Thanksgiving. Her passion, energy, kindness, laughter, wisdom, and unwavering encouragement are truly missed.
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Learning to Listen Fall 2019
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BTC's
Learning to Listen: Conversations for Change
webcast series returned this past September, featuring three luminaries in conversation about digital technology's disruptive capacity in our lives, the interplay between human development and social change, and listening to and engaging
father's
in their children's development.
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"Reclaiming Conversation: How Smart Phones and Social Media Disrupt Our Capacity to Listen"
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"Listening to Create Symmetry: Exploring the Relationship Between Listening and Social Justice"
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"Listening to (and for) Fathers and Fathering"
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Learning to Listen Returns March 2020
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Many thanks to our 2019 sponsors and the Brazelton Touchpoints community for helping make Learning to Listen possible.
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Developing and Piloting New Approaches for Addressing Today's Challenges
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Berry Brazelton triggered a scientific revolution that transformed pediatric practice and inquiry, and led to the fields of developmental behavioral pediatrics, infant mental health, and family engagement. His approach to the study and care of young children, and their families was so far ahead of its time that much of its potential remains untapped. As a researcher and practitioner, Dr. Brazelton stood with parents, facing together with them the challenges of their times.
Innovation was at the core of Dr. Brazelton’s way of understanding infants and children, uplifting parents’ expertise, and changing professionals’ mindsets. Out of it came breakthroughs like Touchpoints, a transformative approach to child, parent and professional development, and the Newborn Behavioral Observation, a clinical tool that helps babies speak to their parents.
Building on its origins in innovation, the Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) is developing accessible, scalable and sustainable solutions for today’s challenges:
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Resources from the National Center for Parent, Family and Community Engagement
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The
Economic Mobility Toolkit for Head Start and Early Head Start
provides strategies for partnering with families around their goals for financial capability, education, and employment. The toolkit also helps design program goals and identify professional development opportunities to build staff capacity in engaging families on topics of economic mobility.
Text4FamilyServices
allows providers and family-facing professionals to sign up and receive two text messages per month with information, tips, research and links to resources that strengthen work with children and families, in addition to special invitations to free professional development events and newly released resources. Sign up for free by texting "PFCE" to 2260.
The
Implementing Child Care Resource and Referral Call Centers Series
includes
guidelines and strategies for setting up or improving existing child care resource and referral call centers as part of consumer education and consumer engagement efforts. The Series also includes two webinars that guide child care agencies and their leadership in implementing and maintaining call center services.
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New Podcast - Listen Today!
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The latest episode in the BTC Learning Network Podcast & Webinar Series
focuses on fatherhood and the value of integrating fathers into work with developing families.
Presenters Kevin Gruenberg
and Richard Cohen,
who co-develped a home visiting program for fathers, discuss how men undergo neurochemical and psychological changes during pregnancy and new fatherhood that prepare them to nurture, parent as a team, and interact with babies.
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Learn more about Learning Network membership and benefits today!
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Touchpoints Individual Training
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January 27 - 29, 2020
Held at Boston Children's Hospital
Waltham, Massachusetts
Cost: $1,350/participant
Earn CMEs in all Touchpoints Individual Trainings!
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10% Off an Upcoming Training
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Valid through Jan 31, 2020
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Newborn Behavioral Observations
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February 3 - 4, 2020
Held at Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Cost: $750/participant*
April 2 - 3, 2020
Held at Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Cost: $750 per participant*
*Fee includes, NBO manual, NBO implementation kit, and 2 follow up mentoring sessions with BTC faculty
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CEUs offered for all NBO trainings - earn 3 credits with BTC today!
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Brazelton Touchpoints is a strengths-based approach to family engagement that combines understanding of child development with communication skills and strategies that build on the
importance
of primary caregiver relationships in a young child’s life.
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Share Your Testimonial!
We'd love to hear about how Touchpoints impacts your work with children and families! Contact
Michael Accardi
to share your story with us!
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Touchpoints Individual Level Trainings
provide a practical approach to family engagement that supports professionals in forming strength-based partnerships with families.
Newborn Behavioral Observations
is a
a clinical relationship-building tool for family-facing professionals to help parents understand their baby’s language.
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Touchpoints Parenting Program
teaches
providers how to facilitate parent groups
using
a prevention-oriented anticipatory guidance curriculum that supports positive family relationships.
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Family Connections
provides an evidence-based, system-wide model for mental health consultation and professional development.
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Your Support Makes a Difference!
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T. Berry Brazelton, MD, founded BTC on the principle that parents are experts in their children’s development, and with the premise that
when we partner with families, we ultimately strengthen communities. A strengths-based approach to working with children and families lies at the core of everything we do. 2019 was an active year, and with your support, 2020 will be, too!
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We've been busy sharing knowledge, resources, and research on Facebook - in case you missed it online, here are some of the most popular things
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have really engaged our community -
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