In This Issue | Winter 2019
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In this edition of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center's quarterly newsletter,
we honor and remember Marlies Zammuto,
showcase new and important resources from the National Center for Parent, Family and Community Engagement, and
highlight exciting professional development news.
We're also thrilled to invite you to
join us this spring as we celebrate Dr. Brazelton's enduring legacy through a dynamic webinar series!
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Colleague, Friend, Mentor, and Advocate:
A Portrait of Marlies Zammuto
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As close friends and colleagues will attest, Touchpoints was a way of being for Marlies Zammuto. In every relationship, Marlies identified the strengths in people, and supported them wherever they were in their individual developmental process. Always listening to understand, Marlies facilitated conversations and dialogue in every aspect of her life that challenged established mindsets, and incorporated and harnessed multiple perspectives.
Marlies’ first encounter with the Touchpoints Approach was at a child care agency serving communities in Lawrence, Massachusetts, when in 1998 she attended a Community Level Training, a core course in the Touchpoints professional development sequence. The relational aspects of Touchpoints, and the practical skills learned in the training, immediately spoke to Marlies, both as a professional, and as a person. As a certified Life Coach and Shamanic Practitioner, the Touchpoints emphasis on building trusting relationships as a way of delivering better outcomes for children and families strongly aligned with her own personal ethos that
“it really isn’t about us; it is us in relationship to others."
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Resources and Information Making An Impact: The National Center for Parent, Family and Community Engagement (NCPFCE)
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With the goal of promoting positive, enduring change for children, families and their communities,
the NCPFCE, led by BTC, has developed and released
the research-based Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework for Early Childhood Systems
. The Framework describes the components of early childhood systems as they relate to parent, family, and community engagement, and specifies elements that can be coordinated to most effectively impact child and family outcomes. The Framework helps leaders, administrators, providers, and other decision-makers understand the collaborative relationship between parents and the early childhood systems, programs, providers, and community-based organizations that support them.
The Framework can be downloaded for free in English and Spanish. Additional resources are available to facilitate the Framework’s implementation, including assessment workbooks and sample scenarios.
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Supporting Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness:
An Interactive Learning Series
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Through free online modules, practice scenarios, and knowledge checks, you can
increase your understanding of family homelessness
and learn things like
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- How to identify and reach out to families experiencing homelessness in your program, school or organization
- Strategies for conducting community outreach about homeless families
- Facts about family homelessness, including federal laws and regulations
- Ways to enhance program and service access to support participation and continuity of care for children experiencing homelessness
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Partnering With Families of Children Who Are Dual Language Learners
Thursday, March 7, 2019
3 – 4:30 pm EST - Free and Open to the Public
Learn how
culturally and linguistically responsive activities can
promote parents in their roles as a child's first teachers, while gaining new strategies for both partnering with families of children who are dual language learners, and engaging community stakeholders in support of those partnerships.
Register today!
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Addressing Health Equity Through Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Health Services
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
3 – 4:30 pm EST
Details and registration link to follow!
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Learning to Listen Webinar Series - Spring 2019
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Professional Development Updates
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BTC’s Site Network is a community of practice comprised of nearly 60 organizations and systems of care actively using Touchpoints in their approach to family engagement, collectively reaching tens of thousands of children and families across the country.
Site Network members receive professional development, supports and extra benefits, many of which are delivered online through BTC's new Learning Management System! New offerings are being developed and launched all the time for network members including trainings and certifications, interactive discussions, and resources and tools.
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Professional Development Spotlight
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BTC's Parenting Program
enables providers to facilitate parent groups and help them learn about their children’s development, while addressing issues facing their families. In the training, participants learn strategies for engaging parents, approaches to supporting parental mastery, and group facilitation techniques.
BTC's Parenting Program
can be delivered onsite at any organization, as was the recent case with Boston-based Smart from the Start, which provided the training to its family-facing providers who work closely with parents.
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Seattle-area Touchpoints Training Rescheduled
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Thanks to Mother Nature's very best – or very worst, depending on perspective – the February Touchpoints Individual Level Training in Port Gamble, WA, was postponed. Seats are still available if you missed the registration window earlier this year. New dates to be released soon for spring 2019!
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Earn Your Continuing Education Credits with BTC!
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All Touchpoints Individual Level Trainings, no matter where they are in the country, offer continuing education credits for healthcare professionals!
Physicians earn 20.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits, and nurses earn 20.25 contact hours. Learn more by contacting
Mai Nguyen-Kim
today!
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Attend an Upcoming NBO Training
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Boston, MA
March 4th - March 5th
Harvard Medical School
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New Partnership with Horizons for Homeless Children
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Brazelton Touchpoints Center and
Horizons for Homeless Children
, which reaches more than 2,000 young homeless children in Massachusetts each week,
are excited to announce that Horizons has joined the BTC Site Network! Already making an impact, Horizons aims to have each and every staff member receive Touchpoints training in the coming years!
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Thank You For Your Lifetime of Service!
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Congratulations to Jane Tewksbury
as she starts a new chapter in retirement after a lifelong career making an impact in the lives of children and families! Under Jane’s leadership as Executive Director, BTC experienced new levels of growth in its programming and expanded its reach to more communities and the providers who serve them.
Jane’s commitment to our mission of ensuring that all children - whatever their life circumstances, challenges, and resources - will be healthy, succeed as early learners and have the opportunity to thrive, has carried BTC forward to new heights, and from the entire Brazelton community across the world:
thank you!
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