Touchpoints Individual Level Training
This training supports providers in becoming more proficient in delivering relationship-based, developmentally-informed services. It improves a provider’s ability to be successful in engaging families, and in understanding and applying child developmental constructs to their daily practice. Touchpoints informed practice focuses on implementing a set of strength-based practices such as careful observation of children’s behavior and parents’ strengths to improve parent-provider and parent-child relationships that promote family health and wellness Core Components: • Developmental Framework – provides a concrete framework to better understand a child’s developmental process as one characterized by disorganized behavior and how it impacts caregiving relationships. • Strengths-based, Relational Framework – provides concrete relationship based strategies and practices for building strong partnership with families, staff and community partners. • Reflective Practice – provides a method that can be used to examine provider practices with children and families that intentionally supports efforts to continuously improve. • Culturally Responsive – provides strategies to discover what is important to families. Professionals receive three days of interactive and learner-centered training followed by six months of case based reflective practice to apply their learning to the everyday interactions with families
Target Audience
Physicians, Psychologists, Physician Assistants, Advanced Practiced Nurses, Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Allied Health Professional, Social Workers, Community Health Providers
Learning Objectives
Discuss the Touchpoints Developmental Framework and Touchpoints times of Development
Apply Touchpoints Developmental Framework to our practice
Demonstrate competence through Video Encounters showing use of relational tools
Apply Touchpoints Relational Tools to our own practice
Improve performance through reflective practice sessions.
Available Credit
- 15.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
- 15.00 ANCC
- 15.00 Attendance
- 15.00 JA Credit - AH