Brazelton Touchpoints Project Inc

Programs: The organization supports the work of dr. T berry brazelton and the brazelton touchpoints center. The brazelton touchpoints center collaborates with change-minded providers, organizations, institutions, systems of care, and communities who understand that to improve outcomes for children, they must engage more effectively with families. To reach as many families and other caregivers as possible, we work through providers who have a unique opportunity to influence families during children's formative years. Among other outcomes, the work has had a demonstrated impact on:measurable improved developmental outcomes (e. G. , social/emotional and cognitive development); strengthened parent-child bond leading to higher scores on measures of attachment (linked to later learning and educational performance); reduced levels of parenting/caregiver stress/ increased parenting competence and confidence; increased parent/caregiver literacy activities with children; increased timely follow through on referrals for preventive health; improved quality of early education programs; improved collaboration and coordination of services across disciplines and organizations; sustained organization-wide changes. Since 1996,the center's work has reached over: 1. 5 million families; 50,000 providers; 1,000 community-based touchpoints trainers; 50 states and the district of columbia; 20 tribal communities and 5 continents. Grants are made to support the general operating expenses of the brazelton touchpoints center and for supporting the center's work in specific geographic locations or with specific populations.

the speaker's bureau is offered to groups and communities interested in parent, family, and community engagement and early learning and healthy development of young children from before birth. The speakers bureau offers presentations, workshops, keynote addresses by eminent professionals in the field of early childhood.

the family connections incubator is a mental health consultation service and training program aimed primarily at head start programs whose families evidence a high rate of maternal depression and whose children face a wide range of other adversities (e. G. Family and community violence).