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The Brazelton Touchpoints Center’s Family-to-Family Real Talk Program creates dialogue and connections that build community between and among parents, and open up safe spaces for honest conversations about challenges and opportunities that matter to their families today.
Family-to-Family Real Talk consists of free conversation series created by and for Black, LGBTQ2IA+, Latine, and Indigenous parents and families, as well as families raising children with developmental delays, disabilities, or severe chronic medical conditions. Each series’ episodes focus on different topics and issues facing families today. Conversations are one hour and feature live Spanish translation and closed captioning.
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Parenting While Black
February – March 2026
Through the Parenting While Black series, Black parent leaders, advocates, innovators, academics, and entrepreneurs facilitate conversations and opportunities for reflection, sharing, inquiry, and engagement.
The series is moderated by Kimya Barden, PhD, Psychotherapist; Professor of Urban Community Studies, Chicago Northeastern Illinois University; Co-creator, The Speaker Shop
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LGBTQ2IA+ Families: Love is Love
May – June 2026
Finding community as an LGBTQ family can be transformational and we know love is the foundation of ALL families. Creating connections and nurturing belonging helps build and strengthen that foundation. This series provides an opportunity for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer parents and caregivers and their allies to explore some of the critical issues and challenges parents face every day, sharing solutions and successful approaches while strengthening our community — one conversation at a time.
This series is moderated by Kim Simes, Executive Vice President of Family Equality, which works to ensure that everyone has the freedom to find, form, and sustain their families by advancing equality for the LGBTQ+ community.
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Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige-babies
May – November 2026
We invite Native parents, teachers, and caregivers, along with those working with Native children and families, and those interested in the work of raising our Indigenous children, to join us for the second season of Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige-babies! This season, we will have episodes on Indigenous birthing practices, Native language immersion efforts, Indigenous Visiting with families, and Indigenous music in the Native early childhood education setting. All episodes are free and open access — register today!
This series is convened through the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative (IELC) Institute with Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, EdD, IELC Institute Director, and Co-Founder and Principal Consultant at First Light Education Project.
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Somos Latine Families
September – November 2025
Somos Latine Families offers a safe and welcoming space to hold conversations for and by Latine families. Participants explore what it means to be a parent as part of the Latine community, raising Latine children while navigating U.S. mainstream cultures, and connecting Latine cultural identities to physical and mental health. Join us as we create a Latine parent community of mutual learning and support.
This series is moderated by Eva Rivera, MSW, National Facilitator at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center.
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Parenting While Rising to Child Developmental Challenges
September – December 2025
Parenting While Rising to Child Developmental Challenges offers a warm and inviting opportunity to connect with other parents and families of children with differences in or challenges to their development. Participants explore the unique and common experiences of loving and raising children whose developmental process and journey is delayed or atypical.
We discuss the challenges and joys of family life with children with a wide array of ways of being in the world. Over the five conversations, we will cover topics near and dear to the hearts and experiences of families as we all learn from each other how to best support and advocate for our children, the whole family, and our communities.
This series is moderated by Jayne Singer, PhD, IECMH-E®, Director of Developmental and Relational Health at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center.
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Communities Strengthening Themselves
Through conversations with a range of community members, this free webinar series explores unique visions, wisdom, and resources that are indispensable to addressing challenges children, families, and communities face. By listening to the stories of changemakers in communities, we hope to broaden and deepen our understanding of under-recognized approaches to challenges.
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BTC’s Family-to-Family Real Talk Series creates dialogue and connections that build community between and among affinity groups of parents, and open up safe spaces for honest conversations about challenges and opportunities that matter to their families today.
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