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Enhancing Early Care Provider’s Capacity for Building Early Relationships With Families and Their Children: Touchpoints-Informed Practice

Catherine Ayoub and Elisa Vele-Tabaddor

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This chapter describes Touchpoints-informed practice (TIP), an intervention
model that is delivered through an embedded professional development and
reflective practice initiative. Its purpose is twofold: the first component of TIP gives
early care professionals in childcare, home visiting, health, and social services the
relational strategies to successfully engage with families. The second component of
TIP offers a critical understanding of the dynamic, cyclical processes that frame the
young child’s developmental growth. Together, these two components give professionals
the basic practice skills to work with families on behalf of their children and
a view of child behavior that makes meaning of children’s developmental work during
the early years. Data on professional developmental and relational knowledge
and skills and parent perceptions of their relationship with their child are presented
through both descriptive and quasi-experimental studies of Touchpoints. Scale-up
of the intervention and associated challenges are discussed with particular attention
to work with infants and toddlers. (author abstract)

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• Home Visiting Workforce Characteristics and Workforce Development