Sharing Web Resources- Part 3

   

The website that I have been researching over the course of this class is the Children Defense Fund.  The Children Defense Fund is dedicated to been a voice for all children by improving policies and programs for children. However I didn’t see any links on this site nevertheless in researching this site more in-dept I found out some interesting information.  The Children Defense Fund grew out of the Civil Rights Movement.  I found this to be interesting since this month is Black History Month- something that makes you go really how fascinating!!

 
www.childrensdefensefund.org

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

In reading the “Global Children’s Initiative” website there focus was based on three initiatives. 

 

• reframing the discourse around child health and development in the global policy arena by educating high-level decision-makers about the underlying science of learning, behavior, and health, beginning in the earliest years of life;
• supporting innovative, multi-disciplinary research and demonstration projects to expand global understanding of how healthy development happens, how it can be derailed, and how to get it back on track; and
• building leadership capacity in child development research and policy—focused on both individuals and institutions—in low- and middle-income countries to increase the number and influence of diverse voices and perspectives that are contributing to the growing global movement on behalf of young children.

And from these initiatives derives three objectives to assist in shaping activities for a portfolio in the following areas:

• early childhood development;
• child mental health; and
• children in crisis and conflict situations.

These objectives are design to focus on the developing child.  From reading this initiative it is good to know that measures are being put in place to address mental health issues as well as children in crisis and conflict situations.  Because little emphasis is given to these types of issues as they relate to healthy child development. 

Sharing Web Resources

 

 

The website that I have chosen to study is The Children’s Defense Fund who’s mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.  I would say that all the information shared this week is beneficial and relevant to my professional development because any issue that children are faced with is momentous to my professional growth.  There haven’t been any information ideas, resources or statements shared that have made me look at issues or situations in a new way.    I have not gain any information from the website/newsletter that has given me a better understanding of how economists, neuroscientists, or politicians support the early childhood field.  I am still trying to acquire other means that will provide me with a better understanding of the responsibility of economists, neuroscientists and politicians to support the early childhood field.  I presently have not gained any new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field via exploring the website or newsletter.  This week has proven to be a challenging week for me because of my lack of understanding of the role economists, neuroscientist, and politicians play in the early childhood field.