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Practitioners Impacting: Early childhood caregivers including child care center directors,
teachers, infant toddler nursery staff, family child care providers, Early Childhood Liaisons (to
school district preschool programs), home visiting staff and many associated early childhood
agencies staff.

Community Impact: The long term goal of Boulder County Touchpoints Approach Partners is
wherever young children touch the “system” in Boulder County, Touchpoints Approach
philosophy and tools are there to support the young child’s parent(s), family and community.
We aim for parents feel supported and child outcomes improve across our county; with
Touchpoints Principles and Assumptions becoming a part of our collective language and culture
of service.

We’ve made a great start on that vision. Since our first Touchpoints Individual Level (ILT)
training in June 2014, we have provided six (6) ILTs for licensed child care providers training 95
caregivers. It is a good start on the approximately 275 licensed child care facilities in Boulder
County. We’ve also provided three (3) more ILTs for other early childhood services, such as the
local school district preschool program and made Touchpoints available to local home visiting
programs. These additional ILTs have trained another 54 individuals touching the lives of young
children and their families. In Fall 2015, we convened one group of Head Start parents (14
parents) and provided a parent group training to compliment the Head Start ILT provided at the
same time. In just two years, we have trained 149 early childhood service providers in the
Touchpoints Approach. And we have more planned!

Highlights: The great successes of our program are not only developing a National Touchpoints
Site to serve our county but in answering a call to provide a parent support program that truly
gets to the heart of improving child outcomes while complimenting, not competing with any
other program. Another highlight is that our Community Level Training (CLT) team represents
key early childhood domains: early learning (child care and preschools), health and mental
health (child health promotions and home visiting programs).

Our heartfelt thanks to the two agencies that gave us our start: City of Boulder Department
Human Services that believed in the vision and funded the initial establishment of the National
Touchpoints Site at the Early Childhood Council of Boulder County; and Colorado Department
of Education, Expanding Quality Infant Toddler Program that promotes Touchpoints statewide
through early childhood councils.

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