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.
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