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Family Engagement

What is Touchpoints Doing in Libraries?

For more than 10 years, the Brazelton Touchpoints Center has partnered with libraries across the country to support library staff in their efforts to authentically welcome all children and their families.

Touchpoints Training: The How of Child and Family Engagement (DEC 2024)

Touchpoints provides a practical, preventive approach that supports professionals in forming strength-based partnerships with families.

Touchpoints Training for Mental Health Clinicians and Developmental Services Providers (JAN 2025)

This course is an adaptation for clinicians working with families and children with developmental and/or mental health challenges.

Development is a Journey: A Conversation Roadmap for Talking with Families (October 2024)

Learn about and practice using the Development is a Journey Conversation Roadmap to enhance the provider-parent partnership and engage parents and other caregivers in planning […]

Families in Recovery: Touchpoints in the Context of Substance Use Disorder (SEPT2024)

This training will explore how the Touchpoints Approach can help providers create and nurture collaborative partnerships with parents living with substance use disorder (SUD) and […]

Navigating Challenging Conversations Series (AUG 2024)

Explore how culture and bias may affect when and how we experience conversations as challenging.

BTC’s Dr. Dewana Thompson on Bringing Touchpoints to School-age Settings

M. Dewana Thompson, PhD, always knew she wanted to work with children and families. She attributes much of her interest to her mother, who taught for 30 years in New York City’s public schools. “She always brought a sense of understanding to her family, that children were part of a larger system,” Dr. Thompson recalls.

Touchpoints in Schools

The Brazelton Touchpoints Center offers two professional development trainings for professionals who work with children in grades K–6, both in school and in out-of-school time settings. Participants learn strategies to build strengths-based and culturally responsive relationships with families that last.

Cross-Curricula Study Funded by William Penn Foundation Finds Parenting Programs Benefit Families, Children, and ECE Programs

A cross-curricula study conducted by BTC researchers with a grant from the William Penn Foundation found that participating in evidence-based parenting programs helped parents and other caregivers of young children experience less stress related to depression, anxiety and isolation; reduced stress related to parenting demands; and less conflict in their relationship with their children.

A Conceptual Framework for Family Engagement in Early Childhood Home Visiting

Download a research brief that introduces and describes a conceptual framework that can be used to guide efforts to strengthen family engagement in early childhood home visiting.