Touchpoints

Based on [|Dr. T.B. Brazelton’s] pioneering infant research and more than 60 years of listening to parents and children, Brazelton[| Touchpoints] is a way of understanding and participating in family development. This approach empowers parents to discover their effectiveness as parents, guiding them through their children’s predictable crises (touchpoints) to support their children’s self-esteem and readiness to take on the world. With the support of teachers, healthcare and social service providers trained in this approach, parents reaffirm their priorities and their strengths as parents, and make the most of the precious time they do have to give their children the best future they can.

A coalition of community organizations brought Touchpoints trainers into Muskegon County this summer for a three day training for key members of various medical, educational and social services agencies. This group has now committed to support the training of three people to become trainers of training in the Touchpoints model. Then this training will be done on a broad-based basis throughout the county with those professionals working with families with very young children.