SHARING WEB RESOURCES

The environment that a new life grew up will influence the child's entire life. The mother shares new words with the child, builds relationship and interacts with others. Various types of adversities can affect and destroy the early brain development of the child. When a child adopts a behavior it is difficult to change as the individual gets older. So what happens in the early years of a child matters alot. A child raised in an environment where policy makers are addressing the issues to meet the needs of the child, reduce chronic diseases and have good quality of education, will help in shaping the opportunities that the child will have in the future and help reduce stress in the life of the child. We as educators need to help children from low to middle income neighborhoods by enacting policies that would help meet the needs of the children to lead a quality life. We need to determine how to achieve the outcomes for children, young people and their families. There are restrictions in the access to developmental service for some children thereby creating educational gap. The importance of engaging parents and familiesin decision-making and encouraging their feed back to improve services that was proposed cannot be overemphasized. Combining the knowledge from neuroscience, behavioral and developmental sciences of early childhood programs to help in bridging the gap of achievement in children will be a step in the right direction.

Economists, Neuroscientists, and Politicians as Early Childhood Advocates.

Childhood poverty research and policy center (CHIP) is a complex and multi-faceted body. It brings education, social protection, health, water, sanitation and agricultural changes to poor children and their families as well as recognizing the sensitivity period for developing cognition, physical vitality and personality. We need to inject new life into the current situations of poor children and their families. Poverty is not created by the poor people but it is created by the system that we all built and the source of poverty derives from the decisions and concepts that people have designed, and theories that have been constructed that made up people’s mind set. The child born on the street is the same as the child born in the rich but events in the society would dictate where people would be or end up. We need to think about the capacity of the child and help with their development to give them the right opportunities in life.

         Many decisions about policies to reduce poverty and have better resource allocation are made locally and nationally, however in a world of increasing globalization, available budgets and many policies adopted by national governments are strongly affected by global decisions about trade, aids, and investments

INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS

Over 600 million children all over the world live in poverty. Poverty affects the life of a child even if it occurs in the life of a child for a short time. Malnutrition in children can lead to a life-long learning difficulties and poor health and is taking more than a third of children’s life all over the world. UNICEF strengthens and supports children in healthcare, nutrition, social protection, clean water, and education. Companies come together to support UNICEF programs, emergency relief efforts and help advance issues vital to children. Over 17 million American children are at risk of hunger. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 50.2 million Americans don’t get enough food to live active, healthy lives. 17.2 million children or one in four children across the country face hunger throughout the year.  Subsidized housing for children and their families helps them pay for their rent, provides skillful trainings for families so that they can get trained in any profession of their choice to improve their lives and enable them get out of the program as soon as possible. As early childhood educators we need to make sure that the welfare needs of children are met. The main issue about poverty that I have learned in the course of these few weeks is that as an early childhood educator I can make a difference in the lives of children by partnering with some organizations to make sure that children get what they need to live a comfortable and healthy life. We need to help to enact policies that positively affect the development of children in eradicating poverty to make the lives of children better. When we avoid speaking out to eradicate this problem people’s lives will be affected negatively.

www.childhoodpoverty.org

 www.unicef.org

www.usda.gov

www.nyc.gov/acs

Sharing Web Resources

I chose these sites to enable me understand better how to take care of children and their families. The sites are Global Fund for Children (GFC) http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/ (Newsletter: http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&Itemid=340),  National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) http://nbcdi.org/ (Newsletter: http://nbcdi.org/support/sign-up-for-nbcdi-newsletters/) and the National Head Start Association  http://www.nhsa.org/  (Newsletter: http://www.nhsa.org/news_and_advocacy/advocacy/legislative_eupdate ).

       The vision of the Global Fund for Children(GFC) is to place emphasis on learning and affirming diversity that enriches the globalized world.  They believe in the potential of every child in a healthy and positive light. The vision of the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) is to improve and protect the quality of life for children of color and their families by giving every child a chance.  With early childhood education as the focus, child welfare, elementary and secondary education, and health to better the lives of children and their families are also given consideration. Finally, the National Head Start Association (NHSA) has a vision to voice out their opinion about every vulnerable child in Head Start and support the whole child, the family and the community as well as ensure that all vulnerable children and their families have what they need to succeed.

     Two of the sites emphasized on helping children from diverse backgrounds without regard to their demographies.

Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Part 1

I contacted two people by e-mail for my blog assignment which I am still waiting to hear from them. I listened to some of the discussions from the alternative source, world forum radio, to understand and get better views of professional in early childhood settings. Susan Lyon taught children with learning disabilities and emotionalproblems. Barbara Jones started her school in Maine after working in private sector for 5 years.

References:

The Global Alliance of NAEYC has e-mail addresses for early childhood professionals worldwide:http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance

  World Forum Foundation. World Forum Foundation whose mission is to promote an on-going global exchange of ideas on the delivery of quality services for young children in diverse settings.” http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/about.php 

World Forum Foundation Radio. Includes links to podcasts of conversations with early childhood professionals.
http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/radio.php 

Part 2



The global funds would enable me to help children from the United States and Nigeria to eradicate hunger and meet some basic needs of children from low income families. The National black child development institute helping with solution to early childhood education. The zero to three, NAEYC (national association for the education of young children ) and national head startassociation are sites that I am familiar  with and able to relate to their aims and values. 



Zero To Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Familieshttp://www.zerotothree.org/   (May have to use http://www.zerotothree.org/about-us/ )

National Black Child Development Institute/support/sign-up-for-nbcdi-newsletters/ )
National Institute for Early Education Research
http://nieer.org/ 
(Newsletter: http://nieer.org/resources/newsletter/index.php )

The National Association for the Education of Young Children
http://www.naeyc.org/ 
(Review also the position statements: http://www.naeyc.org/positionstatements )