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Brazelton Touchpoints Center 2016 National Forum

Celebrating 20 Years of Touchpoints: Appreciating Our Past/Envisioning Our Future

July 22-23, 2016
Providence, RI

More than 150 people from all over the US gathered in Providence for two days to reflect on our
past and envision our future at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center 2016 National Forum. Most
were certified Brazelton Touchpoints trainers, but the group included representatives from a
wide range of disciplines, and professional and family roles. Among many others:

 The founding director of an Oakland program for recently incarcerated fathers, who not
only applies Brazelton Touchpoints principles and practices in his daily work but spreads
them to other family-facing professionals and organizers in his community

 A Washington DC pediatrician who is working to ensure that her examining rooms
reflect her patients’ diverse heritages, embedding Touchpoints (including theNewborn
Behavioral Observations) into her practice.

 Child welfare workers from Palm Beach County who showed the sustainability of the
Touchpoints strategies, tools, and principles. Not only have they fully integrated
Touchpoints into their work, they are recruiting with the Touchpoints approach in mind
and passing it on to their new co-workers.

 A mom and dad from one of the newest sites—the Laguna Pueblo—who have become
leaders in their community and eagerly participated in the Forum sessions.

 The director of family engagement for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Campaign for
Grade Level Reading, who is exploring bringing Touchpoints to the 240 cities in their
network!

Together attendees delved deeply into the core principles and practices of Brazelton
Touchpoints, exploring everything from exercises used in the initial training sessions in 1996 to
what we’ve learned about impact and what it takes to make sustainable change in organizations,
communities, and systems.