WAM to Sacramento

Team WAM is heading to Sacramento for the "Touchpoints Pilot Library Training". 

Suzanne Flint, with the California State Library and Early Learning with Families (ELF) 2.0 Initiative, has been working with a small group of us to adapt the Touchpoints Training for Libraries.

Our goal this week is to attend this training, bring Touchpoints to RC, and to help be a part of future trainings throughout California.

To help give you a bit of background on what all of this is, we'll share some of our pre-training materials with you -

Who is Dr. Brazleton?

I call him the baby whisperer!


Why early learning?

RC knows quite a bit about Early Learning :).


What is Touchpoints?


Child development is messy - and should be. Children (and everyone around them) "falls apart" (or regress) before a new developmental stage can be reached.

For example - when a baby is learning a skill, perhaps walking - sleeping might be disturbed (certainly will make everyone fall apart)! 

Touchpoints helps to educate providers about child development, where these "fall apart" points might be, and most importantly how to help children and parents during these times.

As a caregiver of young children, how great would be to know that your child might be approaching the walking stage and might not be sleeping. Would it help ease your mind to know that this is a normal stage in development and know how to respond? How helpful would it be to know you might not be getting a lot of sleep coming up and could perhaps schedule a visit for a relative to help?

Touchpoints also teaches how to communicate with families, promote care giver relationships, and  how we can better serve our children and families.

For example,  we recently divided our storytimes into more specific age groups to try and group children by their developmental behavior. We can families by offering developmental tips, choosing toys to highlight children's learning stages for parents, and choosing books/songs/activities for this age group.