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Mental Health & Wellbeing

Beyond Trauma-Informed Care: A Developmental-Relational Framework for Engaging Adults and Children in Healing and Resilience (Nov 2024)

This three-part series will explore strengths-based foundational concepts and actionable strategies related to trauma, adaptation, healing, and resilience.

Mental Health Consultation

The Brazelton Touchpoints Center offers mental health consultation, workshops, and intensive trainings for mental health practitioners and other family-facing professionals and programs supporting everyone’s mental health — in early childhood programs, home visiting programs, and primary care and behavioral health clinics.

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.

Understanding Trauma and Healing in Adults

Learn about trauma and how traumatic events can impact families and program staff in this series of five briefs.

Family Connections Resources

Enjoy these resources from the Family Connections model for infant and early childhood mental health consultation and professional development in early childhood settings.

Caring for Each Other Webinar Series

In the spring of 2020, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Brazelton Touchpoints Center and Sesame Workshop came together to produce a webinar series that shared helpful online resources for families and providers to stay informed, engaged, and responsive to the needs of children and families during health emergencies and traumatic experiences.

Mindful Self-Compassion Webinar Series

In the spring of 2020, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, the Center for Child and Family Well-Being at the University […]

What We CAN Do About the Child Mental Health Epidemic

The child mental health epidemic began before the COVID-19 pandemic, which has only spread it further. Even before March 2020, there were not enough mental health professionals — not even in cities with lots of them — to work with all the children struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges.

Family Connections: Mental Health Consultation and Professional Staff Development

Family Connections is an evidence-based, system-wide model for mental health consultation and professional development in early education and care, Head Start and Early Head Start, home visiting, and other programs serving young children and their families.

Mental Health

More than 50 years ago, the foundational research for the fields of early relational health and infant mental health began booming — with the pioneering […]