• The Touchpoints Approach means making a change from focusing on what’s wrong, to focusing also on what's right; a change from telling parents what to do, to listening to what families need and supporting their discovery of what is best for their children.
  • Touchpoints is about the competence of parents and building strong family-child relationships from before birth through the earliest years.
  • This lays the vital foundation for children’s healthy development.
  • Touchpoints offers a training model for practitioners that emphasizes the building of supportive alliances between parents and professional around key points in the development of young children and through the use of a common language.

TOUCHPOINTS® Stages

  • Prenatal: The Ideal Baby
  • Newborn: The Real Baby
  • 3 weeks: The Energy Sink
  • 6-8 weeks: The Rewarding Baby
  • 4 months: Looking Outward
  • 7 months: Up at Night
  • 9 months: The Pointer
  • 12 months: The Walker
  • 15 months: The Clinger
  • 18 months: Rebel with a Cause
  • 2 Years: Getting to "No!"
  • 3 Years: "Why?"

Baylor University’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Child and Family Studies is serving as the lead agency for the Waco Touchpoints Coalition. For more information about Waco Touchpoints' Coalition, contact Joyce Nuner at (254) 710-6263 or joyce_nuner@baylor.edu.

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