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June 13, 2024

Brazelton Touchpoints Center: Navigating Challenging Conversations Workshop Series

Brazelton Touchpoints Center will host a workshop series on how culture and bias may affect when and how we experience conversations as challenging.

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Navigating Challenging Conversations is a three-part workshop series that will discuss how perspectives and roles may influence one’s understanding of those of the children, families, and colleagues with whom one works.

Each session will equip participants with actionable insights and tools that can be applied toward work. Whether one is a family-facing provider, researcher, advocate, policymaker, or educator, the series will empower participants to navigate sensitive topics with confidence.

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The workshop costs $105 per seat. Sessions will take place on the following Wednesdays from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET:

  • Aug. 21

  • Aug. 28

  • Sept. 4

All workshops are 90 minutes, include a certificate of attendance, and have live Spanish translation and closed captioning available. Registration is now open.

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Brazelton Touchpoints Center: Navigating Challenging Conversations Workshop Series

Brazelton Touchpoints Center will host a workshop series on how culture and bias may affect when and how we experience conversations as challenging.

Learn More

Navigating Challenging Conversations is a three-part workshop series that will discuss how perspectives and roles may influence one’s understanding of those of the children, families, and colleagues with whom one works.

Each session will equip participants with actionable insights and tools that can be applied toward work. Whether one is a family-facing provider, researcher, advocate, policymaker, or educator, the series will empower participants to navigate sensitive topics with confidence.

More Details

The workshop costs $105 per seat. Sessions will take place on the following Wednesdays from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET:

  • Aug. 21

  • Aug. 28

  • Sept. 4

All workshops are 90 minutes, include a certificate of attendance, and have live Spanish translation and closed captioning available. Registration is now open.

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June 4, 2024

Brazelton Touchpoints Center: Supporting Social-Emotional Development and Well-Being

Brazelton Touchpoints Center is hosting a workshop that will explore strategies to cope with the impact of the challenges that the world is facing. The workshop will also discuss how to heal through relationship-based care practices.

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Supporting Social-Emotional Development and Well-Being is a three-part interactive workshop series.

The cumulative stresses of the modern world affect everyone’s mental health, from children to families and providers. Support for social-emotional development enables us to enhance the relationships necessary for everyone’s mental health.

The webinar will take place on Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on the following dates:

  • July 16: Development of Social-Emotional Competence in the Context of Trauma
  • July 23: Relationship-based Practices for Enhancing Family-Child Relationships and Mental Health
  • July 30: Building Your Own Resilience and Mental Health

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The course is aimed at professionals who work with families of young children, including child care educators, family child care providers, home visitors, pediatricians, and early intervention educators.

The webinar is $170 per seat.

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Brazelton Touchpoints Center: Supporting Social-Emotional Development and Well-Being

Brazelton Touchpoints Center is hosting a workshop that will explore strategies to cope with the impact of the challenges that the world is facing. The workshop will also discuss how to heal through relationship-based care practices.

Learn More

Supporting Social-Emotional Development and Well-Being is a three-part interactive workshop series.

The cumulative stresses of the modern world affect everyone’s mental health, from children to families and providers. Support for social-emotional development enables us to enhance the relationships necessary for everyone’s mental health.

The webinar will take place on Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on the following dates:

  • July 16: Development of Social-Emotional Competence in the Context of Trauma
  • July 23: Relationship-based Practices for Enhancing Family-Child Relationships and Mental Health
  • July 30: Building Your Own Resilience and Mental Health

More Details

The course is aimed at professionals who work with families of young children, including child care educators, family child care providers, home visitors, pediatricians, and early intervention educators.

The webinar is $170 per seat.

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Brazelton Touchpoints Center: Supporting Social-Emotional Development and Well-Being

Brazelton Touchpoints Center is hosting a workshop that will explore strategies to cope with the impact of the challenges that the world is facing. The workshop will also discuss how to heal through relationship-based care practices.

Learn More

Supporting Social-Emotional Development and Well-Being is a three-part interactive workshop series.

The cumulative stresses of the modern world affect everyone’s mental health, from children to families and providers. Support for social-emotional development enables us to enhance the relationships necessary for everyone’s mental health.

The webinar will take place on Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on the following dates:

  • July 16: Development of Social-Emotional Competence in the Context of Trauma
  • July 23: Relationship-based Practices for Enhancing Family-Child Relationships and Mental Health
  • July 30: Building Your Own Resilience and Mental Health

More Details

The course is aimed at professionals who work with families of young children, including child care educators, family child care providers, home visitors, pediatricians, and early intervention educators.

The webinar is $170 per seat.

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May 21, 2024

Brazelton Touchpoints Center: Development is a Journey

Brazelton Touchpoints Center is offering a course that aims to enhance the provider-parent partnership and engage parents and other caregivers in planning for their child’s developmental needs.

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Development is a Journey: A Conversation Roadmap for Talking with Families” is a three-hour course that will take place on June 13.

Early identification and intervention are critical to promote a child’s development. However, developmental screening results and concerns can cause anxiety for families and providers. Brazelton Touchpoints Center has developed a tool to help providers have collaborative and productive conversations with families about developmental screening results.

In this workshop, participants will:

  • Explore the seven steps in the roadmap tool
  • Learn strategies to engage parents and families in the developmental screening process
  • Practice having conversations about developmental screening results that honor families’ perspectives, cultures, and values
  • Learn strategies to elicit parents’ observations of their children’s strengths as well as their concerns about their children’s behavior and development
  • Practice sharing their own observations of children’s behavior with parents
  • Practice next steps when a developmental screener yields reason for concern

The live, interactive webinar will run from noon to 3 p.m. ET and 9 a.m. to noon PT on Thursday, June 13. The cost of the course is $85. Certificates will be provided. For more information, visit Brazelton Touchpoints Center’s page for the event.

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April 18, 2024

Brazelton Touchpoints Center: Learning to Listen – Conversations for Change

Brazelton Touchpoints Center is hosting its latest Learning to Listen: Conversations for Change event in early May. The focus of this conversation is the connections between racism- and sexism-inducted inequities in residential evictions and adverse birth and maternal outcomes.

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Dr. Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson – founder, director, and principal investigator of the Social Epidemiology to Eliminate Disparities (SEED) Lab – will lead the discussion. She will discuss how her participatory approach to research is mobilizing community power, wisdom, and radical truth-telling of Black women, families, and communities.

Sealy-Jefferson is a social epidemiologist whose primary research seeks action to combat manifestations of structural racism that limit the human rights of Black communities.

Brazelton Touchpoints Center’s Learning to Listen: Conversations for Change series is aimed at anyone who cares for and about babies and children as well as the families, professionals, and communities that protect and nurture them. Each conversation is an hour in length and features live Spanish translation. The conversations also include closed captioning and an interactive Q&A. Certificates of attendance are available.

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The Wednesday, May 1 conversation will take place at 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT. Registration is now open.

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April 10, 2024

Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige Babies

Brazelton Touchpoints Center will host an event in May that focuses on how families raising Indigenous children help their children with issues surrounding identity.

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2024 Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige Babies is a free virtual conversation series. Through conversations with families raising Indigenous babies and children, the discussion will center on what it is like to nurture children in the modern world.

The series will explore the ways in which families help their children to grow their Native identities and connections with land while navigating diverse systems of care and learning.

The series is led by Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Ed.D, the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative’s institute director and co-founder and principal consultant at First Light Education Project.

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The four-part series begins on Friday, May 24 and continues through Friday, Oct. 18 Each webinar is an hour followed by a 30-minute Q&A session with parent panelists. Live Spanish translation is offered for all conversations.

Registration is required.

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Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige Babies

Brazelton Touchpoints Center will host an event in May that focuses on how families raising Indigenous children help their children with issues surrounding identity.

Learn More

2024 Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige Babies is a free virtual conversation series. Through conversations with families raising Indigenous babies and children, the discussion will center on what it is like to nurture children in the modern world.

The series will explore the ways in which families help their children to grow their Native identities and connections with land while navigating diverse systems of care and learning.

The series is led by Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Ed.D, the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative’s institute director and co-founder and principal consultant at First Light Education Project.

More Details

The four-part series begins on Friday, May 24 and continues through Friday, Oct. 18 Each webinar is an hour followed by a 30-minute Q&A session with parent panelists. Live Spanish translation is offered for all conversations.

Registration is required.

News

Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige Babies

Brazelton Touchpoints Center will host an event in May that focuses on how families raising Indigenous children help their children with issues surrounding identity.

Learn More

2024 Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige Babies is a free virtual conversation series. Through conversations with families raising Indigenous babies and children, the discussion will center on what it is like to nurture children in the modern world.

The series will explore the ways in which families help their children to grow their Native identities and connections with land while navigating diverse systems of care and learning.

The series is led by Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Ed.D, the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative’s institute director and co-founder and principal consultant at First Light Education Project.

More Details

The four-part series begins on Friday, May 24 and continues through Friday, Oct. 18 Each webinar is an hour followed by a 30-minute Q&A session with parent panelists. Live Spanish translation is offered for all conversations.

Registration is required.