Remembering Heidi Als, PhD
Dr. Heidi Als By Joshua Sparrow, MD Heidi Als, PhD, one of Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's first protégés, passed away on Thursday, August 18. Like ...
Read More What We CAN Do About the Child Mental Health Epidemic
By Joshua Sparrow, MD The child mental health epidemic began before the COVID-19 pandemic, which has only spread it further. Even before March 2020, there ...
Read More Brazelton Touchpoints Project Welcomes New Leaders
The Brazelton Touchpoints Project, Inc., supports the work of BTC through advocacy, outreach, partnership development, and strategic advising. Members of the Project’s Board of Directors ...
Read More COMMUNITIES as RESEARCHERS: Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative Receives Grant to Fund Research by Indigenous Communities
The Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative (IELC), led by First Light Education Project (Denver, CO) and the Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) (Boston, MA), announces a grant ...
Read More Discover the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative at the BTC National Forum
Together, First Light Education Project and the Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) lead the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative (IELC), a new national initiative envisioned and designed ...
Read More Hassan Daniel: Strengthening Fathers and Families through Faith, Fellowship, and Touchpoints
Hassan Daniel “Touchpoints provides fathers a way into the hearts of our children that interfaces with our babies with intentionality.” — Hassan Daniel For Hassan ...
Read More Dr. Constance Helen “Connie” Keefer – the Compleat Pediatrician
By Kevin Nugent, PhD, Founder and Director of the Brazelton Institute Brazelton Touchpoints Center faculty member Dr. Constance Keefer retired earlier this year after a ...
Read More Ann Linehan: Honoring a Lifetime of Service
Ann Linehan and Dr. T. Berry Brazelton BTC’s Executive Director, Joshua Sparrow, MD, recently interviewed Ann Linehan, following her retirement as Deputy Director of the ...
Read More BTC to Host National Substance Use Disorder Summit
The Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) is hosting its first National Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Summit: Innovating Partnerships with Families in Recovery, on Wednesday, January 26, ...
Read More Meet Our New Director of Relational Equity and Belonging
Dr. Eurnestine Brown We are honored to officially welcome Dr. Eurnestine Brown as the first Director of Relational Equity and Belonging at the Brazelton Touchpoints ...
Read More Postdoctoral Research Fellow Co-Authors Paper on Social-Emotional Learning in Early Childhood Programs
Dr. Christina Mondi-Rago Dr. Christina Mondi-Rago, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center and a Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical ...
Read More New Comprehensive Mental Health Resources for the AAPI Community
The mass shootings in Atlanta last week are just the latest in a surge of violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the ...
Read More The American Rescue Plan Will Help Lift Millions of Children Out of Poverty
Last week, Congress finalized, and President Biden signed into law, the American Rescue Plan to provide COVID relief to families. The bill includes changes to ...
Read More New Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative Will Elevate Culturally Relevant Research Grounded in Native Communities
Dr. Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz The Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC), located at Boston Children’s Hospital, is partnering with First Light Education Project, a Native-owned consulting initiative, to ...
Read More BTC’s Mindy May Honored for Her Innovative Contributions to Professional Development
Mindy May, MS We are thrilled to announce that Mindy May, Brazelton Touchpoint Center’s Director of Partnership and Professional Development, has been awarded the 2020 ...
Read More Supporting Young Children, Families, and the Early Childhood Workforce during COVID-19
Jayne Singer, PhD, IECMH-E® The Brazelton Touchpoints Center recently collaborated with Boston Children’s Hospital and the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care on a ...
Read More Say Their Names
Tanisha Anderson Armaud Arbery Jacob Blake - of this list, the only one still alive as of this writing, paralyzed from the waist downSandra BlandMichael Brown Philando ...
Read More New Webinar Series and Learning Community Focuses on Virtual Connections
Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC), in partnership with the Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting Collaborative, has launched a webinar series and online learning community that explore ...
Read More Remembering Ann Stadtler, Retired BTC Leader and Faculty
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Ann Coleman Stadtler, DNP, RN, CPNP, who passed on Saturday, July 25, 2020. There are those among ...
Read More Juneteenth
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Today, Friday, Juneteenth, 2020 commemorates the end of slavery. We need this day to be a national holiday. Not just to ...
Read More We Can’t Breathe
At a demonstration Friday night in front of the Boston Police Headquarters, I saw a young woman with a mask on which she’d written the ...
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