Meet the Waco Touchpoints Coalition Partners
Baylor University’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Child and Family Studies is serving as the lead agency for the Waco Touchpoints Coalition.
• Baylor University, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Child and Family Studies (Lead Agency)
• Baylor University, Piper Center for Family Studies and Child Development
• CareNet
• Dr. Keith Warren, private practice psychologist
• Education Service Center Region 12
• EOAC Early Head Start
• Elizabeth Turnage, M.D., private practice family medicine doctor
• Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center Hospital
• Klaras Center Early Childhood Intervention
• MCC Child Studies and Educational Department
• MCC Child Development Center
• Talitha Koum Therapeutic Nursery
• Waco Foundation
• Waco ISD
• Workforce Solutions for the Heart of Texas Child Care Services
• Heart of Texas Workforce Development Board, Inc
Waco Touchpoints Goals:
- For parents to strengthen their parenting skills and the parent-child relationship.
- For practitioners to improve in their knowledge and skills in working with children and families.
- For practitioners to more effectively support and communicate with parents about their child’s development.
- For our community to understand that relationships and healthy child development lay the foundation for a strong community and build stronger networks with one another.
The Coalition Approach:
- Changes the focus from what’s wrong, to what’s right;
- Doesn’t tell parents what to do, but instead listens to what families need and supports the discovery of what is best for their children;
- Enhances the competence of parents and builds strong family-child relationships;
- Lays the foundation for children’s healthy development; and
- Offers a training that emphasizes building supportive alliances between parents and professional around key points in the development of young children.