The Brazelton Centre is a charity whose primary goals are to promote an understanding of infant development and to foster strong infant-parent relationships by focusing attention on parents' needs and the important role their babies play in cementing healthy infant-parent relationships.

• National Study Days – introduction to the NBAS
• Invited three-hour workshops – introduction to the NBAS
• Full training in the NBAS
• Facilitates communications amongst professionals involved in infant and family research and care
• Supports research on infant development and infant-parent issues

Education
Training programmes are based on the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) developed by Dr Brazelton in the early 1970s. The scale is widely used today in research and infant assessment, and as an intervention with parents. It had proved to be a valuable way to sensitise both parents and professionals to the extraordinary behavioural capabilities of the infant. It enables healthcare professionals to see and demonstrate for parents the individuality of the newborn and the infant's powerful impact on the establishment of the infant-parent relationship.

Parents
There are currently 160 health professionals trained in the NBAS in the UK and another 140 being trained. If you would like your baby assessed, please contact your midwife, health visitor or the Centre directly to see if there is a trained NBAS examiner in your region. Also, Dr. Brazelton has written many helpful books for parents, some of which are available from www.amazon.com

Communication
The Brazelton Institute in Boston provides a communication link and outreach service for healthcare professionals around the world. The Brazelton Centre in Great Britain provides information about NBAS programmes, research and tools (e.g. test kit), and facilitates contacts between infant researchers and clinicians.

Research
Brazelton Centres conduct research and co-ordinate collaborative research projects in difference settings around the world. An important goal of research is to examine the effectiveness of different intervention protocols and to measure their short and long-term impact. The Brazelton Centre in Great Britain offers training and advice to researchers.