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. Learn More “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.