Take some time this summer 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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Whether you are a leader, mentor, manager, or coach, you know that building relationships with the people you work with is key. In this series, you will learn strengths-based strategies to further build collaborative, trusting relationships that inspire confidence, nurture practice change, and unleash professional growth. This 2-session, 6-hour workshop series is on July 11 & 13, 12–3 PM ET / 9 AM – 12 PM PT.
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 14-hour training includes three 4-hour live virtual sessions and begins on Tuesday, September 12. Registration is limited to 30 participants.
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Fathers bring unique ways of parenting that offer important benefits for children’s development, learning, and well-being. Whether living together or romantically involved, or not, when two caregivers are raising a child and are able to partner to complement the gifts that each of them can bring, everyone benefits. In this 2-part workshop series, you will learn strategies to engage fathers in early childhood programs and family-focused services and to support parents as co-partners. This 2-session, 3-hour series meets on Wednesdays, July 19 & 26, 12–1:30 PM ET / 9–10:30 AM PT.
While challenging conversations can be uncomfortable, they are also opportunities for self-reflection and growth. This 3-part 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 meets weekly on Wednesdays, August 9, 16 & 23, 12–1:30 PM ET / 9–10:30 AM PT.
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Learn how to use a relationship-based care approach to understand and respond to child behaviors that you find challenging. Learn how to respond to children’s behavior by reflecting upon your own emotional reactions, regulating these reactions, and engaging families to mutually understand the reasons for their children’s behavior. This 16-hour course includes six 2-hour virtual live sessions and 4 hours of independent work, and begins on Tuesday, July 18. Registration is limited to 25 participants.
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CMEs/CEUs available!
Learn how to implement the Touchpoints Approach in your practice or program. Touchpoints is an evidence-based, preventive approach to building strong provider-family and family-child relationships from before birth through age 5. Providers who implement Touchpoints partner with families to lay the vital foundation for children’s early learning and healthy development. This 28-hour, 5-module course begins on Tuesday, September 12. Registration is limited to 20 participants.
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 28-hour, 6-module course begins on Tuesday, September 12. Registration is limited to 20 participants.
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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 22-hour course includes four 4-hour virtual live sessions and six hours of monthly reflective practice, and begins on Tuesday, August 22. Registration is limited to 20 participants.
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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:
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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