The Touchpoints approach offers healthcare providers and early education professionals a framework to build better partnerships with families around mutual strengths-based caregiving and parent engagement, all of which benefit child outcomes. Rooted in child social, emotional and behavioral development, Touchpoints seeks to improve parent-provider relationships, improve provider relationships with each other, enhance parent-infant relationships, moderate parental stress, normalize parent’s perceptions of their child’s behavior, increase well-child care adherence, improve infant developmental outcomes, improve maternal mental health indicators, and encourage longer breastfeeding. A variety of professional tools, training activities and learning communities are offered for providers.
Touchpoints
Topics:
Breastfeeding Other Parenting Education Socio-emotional Development for Children
Approaches:
Benchmarks:
Initiating Breastfeeding Sustaining Breastfeeding
Evidence Rating: III. Expert guidelines—Protocols, standards of practice, or recommendations based on expert consensus.