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Family Development

Meet Mayra E. Alvarez: Advocate for Child Health Equity

Mayra E. Alvarez, President of The Children’s Partnership, a nonprofit advocacy organization in California, spends every working hour, and many non-working ones, fighting for policies that will improve the health and well-being of children across her home state.

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Understanding Family Engagement Outcomes: Research to Practice Series

As part of their work leading the National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement, BTC researchers and staff developed a Research to Practice Series on Understanding Family Engagement Outcomes.

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Dr. Lise Johnson, the Brazelton Institute’s New Director, on the Power of the Earliest Interactions

Listening is a powerful tool. For Lise Johnson, MD, just as it was for Berry Brazelton, listening is at the center of her work with children and their families, and a key pathway for building critically important relationships right from the start.

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LGBTQ2IA+ Families Then and Now 2023

We are excited to relaunch our LGBTQ2IA+ Families Then and Now series in 2023! Through conversations with a diverse range of parents who identify as LGBTQ2IA+ […]

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Parenting While Black 2023

We are excited for our 2023 Parenting While Black series, Radically Resistant: Fostering the Brilliance and Awe in Raising Bold Black Children. This free virtual conversation […]

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Caring for Each Other Webinar Series

In the spring of 2020, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) and Sesame Workshop came together to produce a webinar […]

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Virtual Service Delivery Webinar Series

In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic dramatically changed how we delivered education, health care, and other critical services to young children and their families. The pandemic […]

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Brazelton Touchpoints

Touchpoints are periods in the first years of life, during which children’s spurts in development result in disruption in the family system. The succession of touchpoints in a child’s development is like a map that can be identified and anticipated. 

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Parenting While Rising to Child Developmental Challenges

This free, 6-episode virtual conversation series offered a warm and inviting opportunity to connect with parents and families of children with differences in or challenges to their development.

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Somos Latinx Families

This free, 5-episode virtual conversation series offers a safe and welcoming space to hold conversations for and by Latinx families. Explore what it means to […]

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