Early Childhood In Focus
The Bernard Van Leer Foundation announces the first issue of a new publication series, Early Childhood in Focus (ECIF). The publication will build into a toolkit for child rights
advocates, by setting out clear messages emerging from academic research. Each
issue is underpinned by the child rights perspective of General Comment 7 of the
United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child: Implementing Child Rights
in Early Childhood.
This first issue is entitled Attachment Relationships: Quality of care for young children. It looks at how caregiving, social and economic conditions, and cultural contexts influence the development of attachment relationships, which are crucial for the social, emotional and cognitive development of young children. Click here to order this free series or to download the first issue.
Two further issues will follow in 2007, entitled Early Childhood and Primary Education and Developing Positive Identities.
Bright Futures
New Click here for Public Health Professionals tools and resources.
Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health Volumes I and II
Click here to download this publication.
211 Web Site
MyFlorida 211 Web is a great way to locate resources for child care, housing, addictions, etc. The Web site has recently been updated with a "Strengthening Families" section that includes parenting information.
Please share this link with your collaborative partners, staff and families.
Other Parenting Training Resources
New Duke University Center for Children and Family Policy - Supporting healthy relationships between young children and their parents, lessons from attachment theroy and researcy.
CYFERnet www.cyfernet.org
CYFERnet's website brings together the best, children, youth, and family resources of all the public land-grant universities in the country. The site is designed to be used by anyone who needs comprehensive children, youth, or family information including: educators, researchers, parents, youth agency staff, community members, human services and health care providers, students, policy makers, youth, media.
NEPEM & NEPEF http://cyfernet.org/ncsu_fcs/NEPEF/
The National Extension Parenting Education Model (NEPEM) is a conceptual model that examines the basic areas in which parenting education professionals provide education to parents. It provides a framework for evaluation and program delivery. Complimenting NEPEM, The National Extension Parent Educators' Framework (NEPEF) is used to frame professional development for parenting educators. There are content components and process components that parenting professionals use. Uses and applications of the framework will be discussed.
EARLY CHILDHOOD & BETTER KID CARE
Better Kid Care ( Penn State): http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/index.html
BKC New Staff Orientation ( Penn State): http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/page11a.html
Teaching Basic Health and Safety ( Georgia): http://www.fcs.uga.edu/ext/ece/index.php
New Family Storyteller ( Nevada): http://www.unce.unr.edu/programs/childyouthfam/index.asp?ID=43
FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE
New Developed by Texas Cooperative Extension, an educational agency affiliated with the Texas A&M University System, Fathers Reading Every Day (FRED) is a program designed to encourage fathers, grandfathers, and other positive male role models to read to their children on a daily basis. The program aims to increase father involvement in children's literacy development and to improve the quality of father-child relationships. htttp://fcs.tamu.edu/families/parenting/fathering/fred/index.php
http://fcs.tamu.edu/families/parenting/fathering/index.php
Zero to Three
Zero to Three is a national nonprofit multidisciplinary organization. It's mission is to support the healthy development and well-being of infants,
toddlers and their families by informing, educating and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.
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