Development is a Journey: A Conversation Roadmap for Talking with Families

Bright Futures: Birth to Five, in partnership with the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, is excited to announce the following free virtual training opportunities:

Development is a Journey: A Conversation Roadmap for Talking with Families

We all know how critical early identification and intervention is to promote a child’s optimal development. Yet developmental screening results and concerns can be anxiety-provoking for families and providers. BTC has developed a tool to help family-facing providers have collaborative and productive conversations with families about developmental screening results.

The Development is a Journey Conversation Roadmap facilitates these conversations with seven simple steps to enhance the provider-parent partnership and engage parents and other caregivers in planning for their child’s developmental needs.

This 3-hour, interactive workshop introduces participants to the Roadmap and its focus on honoring families’ knowledge of their child. We explore why providers and families sometimes have differences of opinion about children and screenings. We practice strengths-based ways to invite all perspectives into the conversation and move ahead with equitable shared decision-making.

Registration Information:

Cohort 1:

• Date: October 9, 2025
• Time: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
• Location: Virtual Via Zoom
• Click Here to Register
• Register by October 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Cohort 1:

• Date: November 10, 2025
• Time: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
• Location: Virtual Via Zoom
• Click Here to Register
• Register by November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM

What do participants learn?

In this workshop, participants:

• Explore the seven steps in the Development is a Journey Conversation Roadmap
• Learn strategies to engage parents and families in the developmental screening process
• Practice having conversations about developmental screening results that honor families’ perspectives, cultures, and values
• Learn strategies to elicit parents’ observations of their children’s strengths, as well as their concerns about their children’s behavior and development
• Practice sharing their own observations of children’s behavior with parents
• Practice next steps when a developmental screener yields reason for concern

How do participants learn?

• A 3-hour, interactive learned-center workshop series led by BTC Staff Trainers and National Facilitators
• All workshops have live Spanish translation and closed captioning available.
• Participants receive a certificate of participation.

We are excited to offer these high-quality training opportunities at no cost to you. Please note that space is limited to 75 participants in both workshop and registration may close early. In the coming weeks, expect several updates for additional opportunities as we finalize timing for remaining training events. If you have any questions, please reach out to Austin Waldbillig at austin.waldbillig2@mt.gov

Bright Futures: Birth to Five, in partnership with the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, is excited to announce the following free virtual training opportunities:

Development is a Journey: A Conversation Roadmap for Talking with Families

We all know how critical early identification and intervention is to promote a child’s optimal development. Yet developmental screening results and concerns can be anxiety-provoking for families and providers. BTC has developed a tool to help family-facing providers have collaborative and productive conversations with families about developmental screening results.

The Development is a Journey Conversation Roadmap facilitates these conversations with seven simple steps to enhance the provider-parent partnership and engage parents and other caregivers in planning for their child’s developmental needs.

This 3-hour, interactive workshop introduces participants to the Roadmap and its focus on honoring families’ knowledge of their child. We explore why providers and families sometimes have differences of opinion about children and screenings. We practice strengths-based ways to invite all perspectives into the conversation and move ahead with equitable shared decision-making.

Registration Information:

Cohort 1:

• Date: October 9, 2025
• Time: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
• Location: Virtual Via Zoom
• Click Here to Register
• Register by October 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Cohort 1:

• Date: November 10, 2025
• Time: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
• Location: Virtual Via Zoom
• Click Here to Register
• Register by November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM

What do participants learn?

In this workshop, participants:

• Explore the seven steps in the Development is a Journey Conversation Roadmap
• Learn strategies to engage parents and families in the developmental screening process
• Practice having conversations about developmental screening results that honor families’ perspectives, cultures, and values
• Learn strategies to elicit parents’ observations of their children’s strengths, as well as their concerns about their children’s behavior and development
• Practice sharing their own observations of children’s behavior with parents
• Practice next steps when a developmental screener yields reason for concern

How do participants learn?

• A 3-hour, interactive learned-center workshop series led by BTC Staff Trainers and National Facilitators
• All workshops have live Spanish translation and closed captioning available.
• Participants receive a certificate of participation.

We are excited to offer these high-quality training opportunities at no cost to you. Please note that space is limited to 75 participants in both workshop and registration may close early. In the coming weeks, expect several updates for additional opportunities as we finalize timing for remaining training events. If you have any questions, please reach out to Austin Waldbillig at austin.waldbillig2@mt.gov