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Join the Brazelton Touchpoints Center Learning Network (BTCLN) as a Touchpoints Training Site.
Touchpoints Training Sites are organizations or systems of care that BTC prepares to deliver Touchpoints training and mentoring in their own communities to professionals in early childhood care and education, early intervention, child welfare, home visiting, perinatal and pediatric health, mental health, public libraries, social services, and other family-facing fields.
These sites work to:
- Support their goals in delivering effective services to families
- Develop a common language and framework for engaging children, families, and communities of care
- Enhance providers’ child and family engagement skills by providing Touchpoints training
- Create seamless systems of care where families become more competent and confident in their own abilities to parent their child
Touchpoints Training Sites are members of the BTCLN, a national and international learning community of individuals, programs, organizations, and systems of care actively training and mentoring providers in the Touchpoints Approach. The BTCLN currently includes roughly 60 Training Site Members in more than 20 states, the District of Columbia, and in Canada, Italy, Portugal, and Singapore. Touchpoints links them to each other as a universal language for supporting family and child development.
Meet our Touchpoints Training Sites
- Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education (Montgomery, Alabama)
- Aspire Developmental Services (Lynn, Massachusetts)
- Associazione Natinsieme (Rome, Italy)
- Baby Talk (Decatur, Illinois)
- Brazelton Gomes-Pedro Foundation for Baby and Family Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal)
- Brazos County Touchpoints Coalition (Texas)
- Central Michigan University, Department of Human Development and Family Studies (Mount Pleasant, Michigan)
- Champions for Children Tampa (Florida)
- Child Care Resource Center (Chatsworth, California)
- Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County (Florida)
- Community Action Pioneer Valley (Greenfield, Massachusetts)
- Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C) (Louisville, Kentucky)
- Comox Valley Touchpoints Coalition (Courtenay, Canada)
- Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (Hartford, Connecticut)
- Early Childhood Council of Boulder County (Colorado)
- Educare Central Maine (Waterville, Maine)
- Educare Chicago (Illinois)
- Educare Denver (Colorado)
- Educare Kansas City (Kansas)
- Educare Learning Network (Chicago, Illinois)
- Educare Lincoln (Nebraska)
- Educare Milwaukee (Wisconsin)
- Educare New Orleans (Louisiana)
- Educare of Miami-Dade (Florida)
- Educare of Omaha (Nebraska)
- Educare Oklahoma City (Oklahoma)
- Educare Tulsa Hawthorne (Oklahoma)
- Educare Washington DC (District of Columbia)
- Educare West DuPage (West Chicago, Illinois)
- EPU–Exceptional Parents Unlimited (Fresno, California)
- First 5 Santa Clara County (California)
- Holyoke Chicopee Springfield Head Start (Massachusetts)
- Home-SAFE Vista del Mar (Los Angeles, California)
- Horizons for Homeless Children (Roxbury, Massachusetts)
- Hull Services (Calgary, Canada)
- Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma (Perkins, Oklahoma)
- IABA–Institute for Applied Behavior Analysis (Brea, California)
- Keiki Steps (Hawai’i)
- Long Beach Unified School District/Educare at Long Beach (California)
- Maine Children’s Trust, Maine Home Visiting (Veazie, Maine)
- Maine Department of Education, Child Development Services (Augusta, Maine)
- Massachusetts Library System (Marlborough, Massachusetts)
- Meeting Street (Providence, Rhode Island)
- Montclair State University, Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health (Montclair, New Jersey)
- Napa Valley Touchpoints Coalition (California)
- National University Hospital, Child Development Unit (Singapore)
- Para los Ninos (Los Angeles, California)
- Peoria Tribe (Miami, Oklahoma)
- Pinal Gila Community Child Services Head Start (Casa Grande, Arizona)
- Purdue University School of Nursing (West Lafayette, Indiana)
- The Center for Great Expectations (Somerset, New Jersey)
- The Unterberg Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center (Long Branch, New Jersey)
- United Way of Greater Houston Bright Beginnings (Texas)
- Utah State University Touchpoints Collaborative (Logan, Utah)
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Wisconsin Child Welfare Professional Development System
- Vermont Children’s Health Improvement Project (Burlington, Vermont)
- West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities (Morgantown, West Virginia)
- Wicoie Nandagikendan Urban Immersion Program (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
- Wiikwedong Early Childhood Development Collaborative (Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan)
Steps to Becoming a Touchpoints Training Site
BTC builds capacity with a partnering organization through a process that includes strategic planning and development of a training team (minimum of 3 people). BTC authorizes a Training Site to deliver Touchpoints training to providers in their community as agreed upon by the site and BTC. BTC partners with local agencies to build training teams using its Train the Trainer model. Partnership involves the following steps:
1. Goal Setting
BTC listens to your organization’s shareholders and examines with you the data you already have to identify the goals, interests, and challenges of your organization’s providers, and the children and families with whom they work. Through this process, we surface strengths that can be built upon, gaps in knowledge and skills that professional development can bridge, and the real-world situations that impact implementation of professional practices that effectively and authentically support family and child well-being,
2. Development of Rollout Plan
BTC partners with your organization’s leadership and implementation team to determine:
- Infrastructure you will need to support implementation of the Touchpoints Approach
- Partners and individuals who need to be engaged
- Composition of your training team
- Initial group of providers in your agency who will be trained
- Sequence and timelines for implementation of training
BTC provides consultation to your training and implementation team as your rollout plan is developed. A key component of the rollout plan is identification of the training team (minimum of 3 members). BTC provides selection criteria and consultation on team member selection. Rollout plans are designed to meet the unique needs and strengths of your organization.
3. Delivery of Train the Trainer Program for Touchpoints: The How of Child and Family Engagement
Your training team members will participate in the Touchpoints Train the Trainer program, which includes:
- 32 hours of professional development with ongoing mentorship focused on deepening content knowledge and enhancing facilitation skills
- One year of training team coaching and technical assistance with other new training teams by BTC faculty through hourly teleconference calls
A BTC Site Mentor provides support during the preparation for and the delivery of your first Touchpoints Training Program by your team (occurs within 3-6 months after the Train the Trainer program). Your BTC Site Mentor will be present with your team as they deliver their first training to observe, process the training with the team, and provide feedback. Our training team support also includes the first year of membership in the BTCLN for ongoing mentorship, implementation support, professional development, and an online learning community for all training teams.
4. Membership in the BTC Learning Network as a Touchpoints Training Site Member
The BTCLN provides the following benefits:
- Ongoing Mentoring Support: Touchpoints Training Sites are assigned a BTC Site Mentor who is their primary contact at BTC and checks in with the site at least semi-annually. Site Mentors listen and learn from sites with the goal of supporting their implementation of Touchpoints. The Site Mentor can serve as a sounding board, thought partner, advisor, and a resource for sites as they implement Touchpoints.
- Site Strategic Planning and Implementation Support: Sites provide annual implementation data to BTC. The Site Mentor reviews and discusses this data with the training team to support effective implementation.
- Facilitator Certification Maintenance: Touchpoints training team members are required to complete 3 clock hours annually of professional development to deepen their knowledge and hone facilitation skills related to Touchpoints training. This professional development is provided online by BTC.
- Access to the BTCLN Community: The learning community provides opportunities for connections to happen at multiple levels, including site-site mentor; site-site; site-entire site network; facilitator-facilitator. Networking opportunities are offered in multiple ways, including online discussions, course discussions, network messaging, and webinars.
BTCLN membership is required and must be renewed annually for a site to have continued authorization to deliver Touchpoints training.
Interested in learning more about becoming a Site? Contact us today!
Touchpoints Training Sites are programs, organizations, or systems of care that develop the capacity to deliver Touchpoints training and mentoring to providers in their own communities.
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Seats still available for Touchpoints Training starting September 10!