The Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University has just launched the Global Children’s Initiative and is focused on three strategic objectives:
* To reframe public discourse about the early childhood period by educating high-level decision makers about the common underlying science of learning, behavior, and health
* To support innovative, multidisciplinary research and demonstration projects in selected countries or regions to expand global understanding of how healthy development happens, how it can be derailed, and how to get it back on track
* To build leadership capacity in child development research and policy among individuals and institutions in low and middle income countries in order to increase the number and influence of diverse perspectives that are contributing to the global movement on behalf of young children
The Global Children’s Initiative is building a portfolio of activities
in three domains:
Early Childhood Development
* Assessing quality in early
childhood environments and programs in diverse global contexts
* Piloting assessments to measure
child development outcomes linked to malaria control strategies in Zambia
* Expanding effective interventions
to improve preschool quality in ChileMental Health
* Assessing the state of child mental health services in China
* Developing and evaluating
family-based strategies to prevent mental health problems in children affected
by HIV/AIDS in Rwanda
* Addressing child maltreatment and
mental health outcomes in three Caribbean nations (Barbados, the Republic of
Trinidad and Tobago, and SurinameChildren in Crisis and Conflict Situations
* Exploring comparable approaches
to surveying child status in post-earthquake Haiti and Chile
* Bringing the science of child
development into strategies for addressing acute malnutrition
Nina,
ReplyDeleteI also didn't make any contacts with international educators, so I went with the alternative assignment. I was impressed with the Global Children's Initiative and the amount of work that is being put forth to help increase young children's learning and development. You outlined a lot of great points that this initiative is aiming for. Thanks for that!
Erin
Looks like we all had to complete the alternative assignment this week, due to not having success in reaching our international professionals. But discovering that there is a development where so much work is being done on behalf of young children and their families is reassurring and restores hope that all children are getting a fair chance in their education. Some times we forget that others are lacking and are deprived in some areas, but the problem exists daily. It is admirable to know that some are implementing programs to help this group of children to a fair chance in life.
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