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Italian Touchpoints Site, Managed by the Natinsieme Association, Rome, Italy

The Italian Touchpoints Site is managed by the Natinsieme Association in Rome and is going to

start its activities on September 2016. The Site has now three team members: Luca Migliaccio,
site coordinator, psychologist and founder president of the Natinsieme Association; Fabia

Banella, psychotherapist and co-founder of the Natinsieme Association; Gherardo Rapisardi,
pediatrician and neonatologist, founder and manager of the Brazelton Center of the Anna Meyer

University Hospital of Florence.

The Site has two main goals:

- to disseminate the Touchpoints approach in a specific outskirt of Rome, to professionals
working with families in educational and health context;

- to extend, during the next years, the area of impact to other areas in Rome as well as to

other areas all over Italy.
After the Community Level Training held in Boston in October 2015, conducted by Ann Stadtler

and Jayne Singer, the site team is actually concluding the translation into Italian of the
educational materials and preparing the first training course in Italy that will take place in Rome

on September 29-30th and October 1st 2016, under the supervision of Ann Stadtler.
A second training course is planned in January 2017.