November 14, 2023 Strengths-Based Leadership, Mentorship, and Coaching Brazelton Touchpoints Center invites all professionals who serve in leadership, management, coaching, or mentor roles to attend this workshop series to develop strategies on how to cultivate and sustain a strengths-based approach in your leadership role. Event Details 2-part workshop series, 3 hours each, totaling 6 hours of training January 23 and 25, 11-2 pm ET / 8-12 pm PT Live Spanish translation and closed captioning are available Participants receive a certificate of participation. Contact Hours: 6 Register for this opportunity today. Additional Details In this course, participants will learn: How to take the other person’s perspective to support a strengths-based approach How to identify where staff start and how they are advancing in their learning process How to highlight and appreciate staff strengths in your interactions with them Strategies that can help you deepen your connections with staff
Strengths-Based Leadership, Mentorship, and Coaching Brazelton Touchpoints Center invites all professionals who serve in leadership, management, coaching, or mentor roles to attend this workshop series to develop strategies on how to cultivate and sustain a strengths-based approach in your leadership role. Event Details 2-part workshop series, 3 hours each, totaling 6 hours of training January 23 and 25, 11-2 pm ET / 8-12 pm PT Live Spanish translation and closed captioning are available Participants receive a certificate of participation. Contact Hours: 6 Register for this opportunity today. Additional Details In this course, participants will learn: How to take the other person’s perspective to support a strengths-based approach How to identify where staff start and how they are advancing in their learning process How to highlight and appreciate staff strengths in your interactions with them Strategies that can help you deepen your connections with staff
October 21, 2021 Strengths-Based Family Engagement Workshop Series Are you interested in connecting with families about their child’s care and development? Join Brazelton Touchpoints Center for their upcoming professional development, “Strengths-Based Family Engagement Workshop Series.” Each workshop is 90 minutes, includes a certificate of attendance, and offers live Spanish translation. Participants may register online to attend live or receive recordings of each session. Additional Information Workshop 1: A View from All Sides: Perspective-Taking to Support Family Engagement Tuesday, 11/9 | 12 p.m. Workshop 2: Choosing Your Attitude: Using Strength-Based Family Assumptions Tuesday, 11/16 | 12 p.m. Workshop 3: I Hear You: Active Listening to Engage Families Tuesday, 11/30 | 12 p.m. Workshop 4: The Power of Observation: Connecting with Families Through the Child’s Behavior Tuesday, 12/7 | 12 p.m. Workshop 5: Valuing Passion: Connecting with Families Around What They Care About Tuesday, 12/14 | 12 p.m. About Brazelton Touchpoints Center The Brazelton Touchpoints Center provides professional and leadership development, organizational learning and change, and research and evaluation for family-facing professionals in pediatrics, early childhood, infant mental health, children’s libraries and museums, home visiting, and child welfare. The Brazelton Touchpoints Center is home to the Touchpoints Approach, the Brazelton Institute (the Newborn Behavioral Observations system and the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale), Family Connections, the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative, and the BTC Research and Evaluation team.
November 10, 2020 Supporting Fathers Who Were Sexually Abused as Children Join the Brazelton Touchpoints Center and Hassan Daniel, Founder and CEO of The Father Factory, on November 18 for “Supporting Fathers Who Were Sexually Abused as Children.” This is an online event. About During this discussion, Brazelton Touchpoints Center Executive Director Joshua Sparrow, MD, and Hassan Daniel, Founder and CEO of The Father Factory, will discuss fathers with childhood histories of sexual abuse and how they can heal and become the fathers they want to be and their families need them to be. Join Hassan for a live and interactive discussion following the event. Live Spanish translation will be available. Registration To register, visit the event webpage.
October 15, 2020 Virtual Service Delivery Webinar Series Are you interested in learning how to build and sustain relationships with families virtually? Join Brazelton Touchpoints Center for their free Virtual Service Delivery Webinar Series. About Join Brazelton Touchpoints Center for a series of free webinars and an online learning community to explore the challenges and opportunities posed by virtual service delivery, and learn about strategies providers have found for building and sustaining strong relationships with families virtually. Featured Topics Finding the Balance in Virtual Service Delivery Thursday, October 22, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. Using a Hybrid Approach to Partner with Families Thursday, November 5, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. Providing Staff Support and Supervision Virtually Thursday, November 19, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. Understanding and Responding to Trauma in Virtual Service Delivery Thursday, December 3, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. Taking Care of Yourself as a Virtual Service Provider Thursday, December 17, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. Registration To register and learn more, visit the event webpage.
September 25, 2020 Honoring Each Person’s Experience to Support Mental Health Join Brazelton Touchpoints Center on October 19 for “Honoring Each Person’s Experience to Support Mental Health” to learn how to apply reflective practice and perspective-taking to your virtual work with children and families. About When working with families, especially within today’s current crises, it is important that everyone’s experience of a situation is heard and understood. This requires reflecting on all points of view: one’s own, the child’s, and that of their family members. In this webinar, participants will learn how to adapt and apply reflective practice and perspective-taking to their virtual work with children and families. This session is best suited for professionals who work with families of young children, including early care educators, family child care providers, mental health consultants, home visitors, pediatricians, early interventionists, and more. Registration To register and learn more, visit the event registration page. Space is limited. For questions, contact btcsitenetwork@childrens.harvard.edu.
September 11, 2020 Building Resilience While Social Distancing: Parental Depression & Coping Join Brazelton Touchpoints Center on October 26 for “Building Resilience While Social Distancing: Parental Depression & Coping” to learn coping skills you can share with parents to address the effects of isolation in the short and long terms. About This webinar will explore the similarities between isolation and depression, paying close attention to the distinct needs and behaviors of parents suffering from depression and anxiety. Participants will learn coping skills they can share with parents to address the effects of isolation in the short and long terms. Participants will also learn when to consult with mental health professionals in their work with families. Registration To register and learn more, visit the event registration page. Space is limited.
Nurturing the Nurturer: Self-Care for Providers & Parents Join Brazelton Touchpoints Center on November 2 for “Nurturing the Nurturer: Self-Care for Providers & Parents” to learn self-care practices for early care professionals and families. About This webinar will explore self-care practices for early care professionals and the families they work with. Participants will be introduced to a variety of self-care strategies, and learn why we all need self-care, particularly during extremely stressful times. Participants will learn how to make the oftentimes difficult shift from nurturing others to nurturing themselves first. A certificate of attendance will be provided after the end of the session. Registration To register and learn more, visit the event registration page. Space is limited.
September 8, 2020 Supporting Fathers as Central to Family Life Are you interested in learning about what changes are needed to make room for fathers in the “first shift” of family life? Join Brazelton Touchpoints Center on November 17 for their webinar, “From ‘Second Shift’ to ‘First Shift’: Supporting Fathers as Central to Family Life.” About This webinar will focus on institutional, practitioner, and family changes that must occur to make room for fathers in the “first shift” of family life. It will showcase a user-friendly tool from the Supporting Father Involvement (SFI) program that can help organizations assess their “father friendliness.” Agency and program changes that increase fathers’ inclusion in family life will be shared. Presenters will highlight fathers’ contributions to family life in over-burdened, under-resourced communities, which often go unrecognized. Registration To register and learn more, visit the Brazelton Touchpoints Center website.
Parent and Child Voices: Fathering and Co-Parenting Are you interested in learning about the Supporting Father Involvement (SFI) program? Join Brazelton Touchpoints Center on October 20 for their webinar, “Parent and Child Voices: The Importance of Fathering and Co-Parenting.” About This webinar will feature the voices of children, fathers, and mothers on the importance of fathering and co-parenting. Presenters will explore how the SFI program helps parents learn to hear what their partners and children need, and figure out—together—the routines, parenting strategies, and future plans they want to keep or change to best sustain their family. The webinar will include short videos of children talking about what their father’s presence or absence means to them, and of parents discussing how SFI changed their families. Registration To register and learn more, visit the Brazelton Touchpoints Center website.
