T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., the pediatrician who has given advice to moms and dads for generations, visited HPP earlier this month. He was accompanied by Joshua Sparrow,M.D., director of special initiatives at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, child psychiatrist at Children's Hospital in Boston and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

 

They met with HPP Exectuive Director Martha Ryan; HPP Program Director Lee Heagerty; HPP's Training and Wellness Coordinator Nancy Frappier(above right); and midwives and mothers from San Francisco General Hospital's CenteringPregnancy program.

Experts on pediatrics, child development and parent-child relationships, Dr. Brazelton and Dr. Sparrow have co-written written several books about children and infants, including the Touchpoint: Your Child's Emotional and Behavorial Development series. Brazelton, who is 89, is clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Rosalie Streett, formerly with the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, who now is a consultant at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, 

arranged 

the visit.

 

 

BIRTHS: Training and Wellness Coordinator Nancy Frappier reports that in 2007, HPP clients gave birth to 157 babies (85 boys and 72 girls). 95% (149) had healthy birth weights of 5lbs 8ozs or higher (one had low birthweight because he was premature) and 98% (154) were born drug free.

 

HOUSING: Housing Contract Manager Renu Karir reports that in 2007, HPP assisted 478 families in obtaining housing funds, including assistance with move-in deposits and/or first month's rent, ending homelessness for 919 children.

 

 

 

 

See the News in Brief item above for more details.

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