Take some time this fall to build your skills with BTC!
The Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) offers live, online workshops and multi-day courses for all professionals who work with young children and their families. Our trainings are led by BTC Staff Facilitators and National Facilitators, and provide certificates of attendance. Members of the BTC Learning Network receive a discount on all registration fees. (Click here for information on joining the BTC Learning Network.)
Need to register a group? Group registration can now be done online!
All workshops offer live Spanish translation and closed captioning.
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For Leaders, Managers, and Coaches |
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Learn how to use the Touchpoints Principles and Assumptions as a starting point for mentoring staff as they gain mastery in using the Touchpoints Approach. To participate in this training, you must have previously completed the BTC course, Touchpoints: The How of Child and Family Engagement. This training begins on Tuesday, September 12.
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Mental Health and Well-being |
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Learn strategies you can use in your work and personal lives that honor everyone’s experiences, build resilience, and nurture self-care. As professionals working with young children and their families, we need to care for our own mental health while we tend to the mental health of the families with whom we work. The series meets weekly on Wednesdays, September 13, 20 & 27 at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT.
This three-part series provides knowledge, skills, and strategies for strengthening your partnerships with parents, understanding depression, and talking with children about difficult issues. This virtual workshop series based on the Family Connections model is for mental health consultants, family service professionals, and early childhood system or program leaders. The workshop is on Thursdays, October 19, 26 & November 2 at 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT.
This three-part webinar series will explore strengths-based foundational concepts and actionable strategies related to trauma, adaptation, healing, and resilience. Participants will learn to better understand and respond with empathy to behavior displayed by children and adults who have experienced trauma, while also supporting their development of a greater sense of trust and safety. The live, interactive workshop is on Tuesdays, November 7, 14 & 28 at 12:30 PM ET / 9:30 AM PT.
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Learn about and practice using the Development is a Journey Conversation Roadmap to enhance the provider-parent partnership and engage parents and other caregivers in planning for their child’s developmental needs. The workshop is on Tuesday, October 17, at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT.
This course explores how to use a relationship-based care approach to understand and respond to child behaviors that providers find challenging. Participants learn to respond to children’s behavior by deeply reflecting upon their own reactions to children’s behavior, regulating their emotional reactions, and engaging families to mutually understand the reasons for their children’s behavior. The series meets on Mondays, October 30, November 6 &13, and Wednesdays, November 1, 8 & 15 at 6 PM ET / 3 PM PT.
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While challenging conversations can be uncomfortable, they are also opportunities for self-reflection and growth. This workshop series explores how racism, culture, and bias may affect when and how we experience conversations as challenging. You will learn and practice strengths-based strategies to engage more effectively in challenging conversations. The series is on Wednesdays, August 9, 16 & 23, 12–1:30 PM ET / 9–10:30 AM PT. CMEs/CEUs are also available for this series.
Building relationships with families is one of the most important things that a provider can do in supporting both the child and their family. Yet, building collaborative, trusting relationships is not always easy. In this series, you will learn strategies that you can immediately apply to your work to further cultivate a strengths-based mindset in your work with families. The series is on Wednesdays, October 4, 11, 18 & 25, and November 1 at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT.
Learn strategies to engage fathers in programs and services, and consider ways to support parents as co-partners. In this two-part series, we will discuss strategies to engage fathers in early childhood programs and family-focused services and to support parents as co-partners. The series is on Wednesdays, November 1 & 8 at 12:30 PM ET / 9:30 AM PT.
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CMEs/CEUs available!
Learn how the Touchpoints Approach can help providers create and nurture collaborative partnerships with parents living with substance use disorder (SUD) and their children who have experienced prenatal exposure. This course begins on Tuesday, September 12.
Touchpoints in Libraries focuses on understanding a child’s developmental process from birth to 6 years and connecting with families through strengths-based interactions. This live session begins on Wednesday, September 13.
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Learn how to deliver the Touchpoints Parenting Program in your setting. The program is a preventive curriculum designed to meet the needs of today’s families by supporting positive parent-child relationships. The Touchpoints Parenting Program meets the Head Start Program Performance Standard for Parenting Curriculum. This course begins on Tuesday, August 22.
The Supporting Father Involvement (SFI) Program, also known internationally as Parents as Partners (PasP), is an evidence-based approach to increasing father involvement, engagement in co-parenting, and fostering children’s development.
The Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) offers a 24-hour training for teams interested in implementing the SFI program in their organizations. Please contact Mindy May for more details or to inquire about registration.
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All NBO trainings have CMEs/CEUs available!
The NBO is an infant-focused, family-centered relationship-building tool designed to sensitize parents to their baby's competencies, challenges, and individuality with the goal of fostering the development of a positive parent-infant relationship from the very beginning. In this training, you will learn how to use the NBO with parents to learn together about their infant's behavioral capacities and identify the kind of support the infant needs for optimal growth and development.
Standard NBO Training Dates:
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August 28, 29 & 30, 9 AM – 2 PM ET Learn more
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September 27, 28 & 29, 9 AM – 2 PM ET Learn more
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November 14, 15 & 16, 9 AM – 2 PM ET Learn more
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October 3 & 4, 9 AM – 5 PM ET. In-person in Boston, MA Learn more
NBO Trainings for Professionals Working with High-Risk Infants:
Half-Day Workshop on Using the NBO with Families in Substance Use Recovery (Prior NBO Training is required, no CMEs/CEUs available):
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September 14, 12–4 PM ET / 9 AM – 1 PM ET Learn more
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Would you like to bring these courses or another BTC training to your program, organization, or community?
BTC facilitators can offer our courses online to your specific group. We can also customize trainings to meet your program’s or organization’s professional learning needs.
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ABOUT BTC
The Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) 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, child welfare, and other fields. BTC is home to the Touchpoints Approach, the Brazelton Institute (Newborn Behavioral Observations system and Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale), the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative, Family Connections, Family-to-Family Real Talk Series, 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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