The Development is a Journey Conversation Roadmap:

A Tool for Talking with Families

3-hour workshop

Thursday, October 20 @ 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT

You’ve done the developmental screening. Now it’s time to discuss the results with families. The Development is a Journey Conversation Roadmap can help. In this virtual 3-hour, interactive workshop, we’ll show you how to use the Roadmap’s seven simple steps to engage parents and other caregivers in understanding and planning for their child’s developmental needs. You’ll learn how to use the Roadmap’s strategies for honoring families’ knowledge of their child and engaging in collaborative conversations – especially when providers and families have different opinions about the child’s development. 

Find out how you can use this new tool to invite families’ perspectives into the conversation, welcome conflicting viewpoints, and move ahead with shared decision-making! 

Did you know: The Centers for Disease Control, American Academy of Pediatrics, and California Training Institute are sharing the Brazelton Touchpoints Center’s Conversation Roadmap as a resource for productive conversations with parents and caregivers about developmental screening and surveillance?

This workshop includes live Spanish translation, closed captioning, and a certificate of attendance. Group registration is available. 

Contact us for details.

Price: $75

BTC Learning Network Member Price: $71

• (Learn more about joining the BTC Learning Network here.) 

Touchpoints Parenting Program —

22-hour intensive course starting September 13 @ 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

The Touchpoints Parenting Program is a practical, preventive curriculum designed to support positive parent-child relationships. The curriculum consists of a series of parenting modules that early childhood professionals can facilitate in their program to come alongside parents as they learn about their children and address issues facing their families.

This 22-hour intensive, online course teaches participants how to implement the Touchpoints Parenting Program with families. The training is designed for all professionals who work with families of young children and want to lead parenting programs or groups.

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Touchpoints in the Context of Substance Use Disorder —

6 module course begins on Monday, September 19 @ 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT

Building relationships with families in recovery and their children who might have had prenatal exposure presents its own unique challenges. 

Touchpoints supports providers in building strong, trusting partnerships with families to effectively manage concerns that might arise about a child or family in recovery.

This online course includes six modules, each facilitated in a live, interactive webinar format! The webinars are followed by six monthly one-hour reflective practice sessions. The live sessions run from Monday, September 19 through Tuesday, October 11.

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This free virtual conversation series offers a safe and welcoming space to hold conversations for and by Latinx families.

Explore what it means to be a parent as part of the Latinx community, raising Latinx children while navigating U.S. mainstream cultures, and connecting Latinx cultural identities to physical and mental health. 

Join us as we create a Latinx parent community of mutual learning and support.

The six-part series begins on Monday, September 19, 2022, and will be held every other Monday, from 3 to 4:30 PM ET / 12 to 1:30 PM PT, through November 28, 2022.

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Parenting While Rising to Child Developmental Challenges —

New Family to Family Conversation begins on Monday, September 26

This free, 6-episode virtual conversation series offers a warm and inviting opportunity to connect with other parents and families of children with differences in or challenges to their development.

Over the six conversations, we will cover topics near and dear to the hearts and experiences of families as we all learn from each other about how to best support and advocate for our children, the whole family, and our communities.

The six-part series begins on Monday, September 26, 2022, and will be held on Mondays, October 24, November 7, November 21, December 5, and 19 from 3 to 4:30 PM ET / 12 to 1:30 PM PT. 

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The Brazelton Touchpoints Center provides professional and leadership development, organizational learning and change, and research and evaluation for family-facing professionals in pediatrics, early childhood, infant mental health, children's libraries and museums, home visiting, and child welfare. BTC is home to the Touchpoints Approach, the Brazelton Institute (the Newborn Behavioral Observations systems and the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale), the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative, Family Connections, and the BTC Research and Evaluation team. At BTC, we are dedicated to creating a lasting community in which equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, and access thrive.

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