I visited Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” website and learned a lot about their goals and priorities in early childhood education. The center’s main focuses are working on the discourse around child health and development, supporting research on childhood development, and building leadership around the world. They have different activities and projects pertaining to the early childhood field, including development, mental health, and children in crisis situations. This program doesn’t operate just in the United States, it operates around the world. Their aim is to improve the outcomes in children’s lives. In early childhood development area, they work globally with others to increase investments in early childhood and expand different interventions for children. These certain kinds of projects have been held in Zambia and Chile. In child mental health area, they focus on addressing gaps in knowledge and the causes of health problems. This research has been conducted in China and in Caribbean nations. In the children in crisis situations area, they focus on the outcomes of children who have experienced some sort of major conflict in life (major earthquakes, malnutrition). I have learned a lot about their efforts and research involving young children globally. The same issues we face in the early childhood field, are some of the same issues other nations face also. They work together with these other nations to try to resolve these issues.
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Hi Arica, it is great to learn how everyone recognize the child’s mental health is just as important. I’ve been around a child that has gone through a major crisis, and it was important to receive the appropriate services. Thanks for sharing a global aspect of this topic.
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Andrea Cureton
Hi Arica,
ReplyDeleteI learned quite a lot from this website as well. This assignment ws helpful in learning how international contacts ensure the health and well being of children's mental health and development are addressed. Thanks for sharing your insights.
Arica,
ReplyDeleteI too found this website and their international efforts quite interesting. I applaud Harvard University for making the effort to reach out globally and provide these resources.