Week 5 Blog Assignment

The Global Children’s Initiative is a non-profit organization which is part of the Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child. The center reaches out to all children even worldwide. They especially reach out to those that are at risk of health and development issues that are due to poverty. “Many children fail to reach their full developmental potential by age 5” (Center on the Developing Child, 2018). The center reaches out to different policy makers in other countries to do research on early childhood and how it is important to every child’s development.

The insights or ideas I gained:

1.  There are many people like educators, researchers  and politicians that are working together to improve the early childhood field around the world. When it comes to child development quality childcare is important.

2.  The center reaches out to organizations to help children that may experience a disaster. The center encourages these organizations to work with these children for a large amount of time. This will give children and families enough time to get pass it.

3.  The center works with other countries like Brazil, Canada and Mexico. “In Brazil the partnership has been successful in creating a science driven early childhood movement” (Center on the Developing Child, 2018). “In Canada the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative counter the separation between science, policy and practice work” (Center on the Developing Child, 2018). AFWI is seeking to close the gap in “what we know” in science and “what we do”  and policy and practice (Center on the Developing Child, 2018). In Mexico the “Latin American Innovation clusters connect with the center to enhance child outcomes through adult capacity building” (Center on the Developing Child, 2018). The center works with these countries to improve young children’s condition.

Reference:

The Center on the Developing Child, (2018). Retrieved from   (http://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global-work/) on April 7, 2018.