The Global Children’s Initiative website states coordinating, “strategies to support child development can multiply the effects of investments in child survival, health, education, and economic development. To protect children from significant adversity, in addition to providing them with enriched learning opportunities. The early childhood years are critical building blocks for lifelong health, not just school readiness”. Establishing the cause of dysfunctional behavior and lack of learning capability in ECE before school age is a big feat because; it gives opportunities to fix the problem before it creates greater complications.
In reviewing how brains are built video, it reminds me of the reiteration I’ve heard my entire early childhood career and that’s, “Brains are built over time based on our experiences. A brain needs a good base to support all future development. Positive interactions between young children and their caregivers literally build the architecture of the developing brain. Building a sturdy foundation in the earliest years provides a good base for a lifetime of good mental function and better overall health”. Serve and return interactions are a form of communication between a child and its parents/caregivers. There’s also positive and toxic stress for children. The first thing I learned from the website is toxic stress. As adults toxic stress is heavy for us to resolve so imagine the cause it creates on a child. If a positive foundation for solution solving wasn’t established at an early age bigger and greater stresses toxic or not will cause havoc on a child and its future emotionally, mentally, and physically. The second and third thing learned was executive function and self-regulation which scientists deem necessary for a child to obtain, establish and have so they can stabilize their stress and stressors. It states it will establish a greater brain function that will be able to handle anything that comes a child’s way.
This website, “through activities in applied research, knowledge translation, professional training, and evaluation. In Canada, through the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative (AFWI) it’s continually seeking to bridge the gap between “what we know” in science and “what we do” in policy and practice. This revelation is supporting the early childhood educators need for the state and federal government to make changes to invest. The studies and research show the necessity of ECE. I would like to see this equated financially to support the cause. Through this international source regarding equity and excellence, I would hope it can be translated worldwide so that everyone is on the same page and established no later than 2024. To be able to participate on board and assist in making this all come to fruition is my goal in the future. (http://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global/work/).
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Partnerships with Global Early Childhood Organizations. (n.d.). Retrieved February 8, 2020, from https://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global-work/
Lewanda, I too chose the Albert Family Wellness Initiative. I really appreciate them continuing to seek ways to separate science, policy, and practice work. Each one gives us the opportunities to gain further knowledge and tools that we can use to make a difference in how we build a child's foundation for life.
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