Resilience is needed now more than ever. One simple, yet often overlooked way of supporting healthy and resilient child development is as old as humanity itself: PLAY. Play contributes to sturdy brain architecture, the foundations of lifelong health, and the building blocks of resilience. Listen to this episode of The Brain Architects podcast to learn how!
This new brief discusses how racism creates conditions that harm the well-being of children and families, and the need to go "upstream" and create policy solutions to address the source of structural, cultural, and interpersonal racism.
In this animated video, narrated by Center on the Developing Child Director Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., learn what the latest science tells us about how early experiences affect not only early learning and school readiness, but also lifelong health.
The early childhood field is at a critical inflection point in a changing world. The opportunity to align new science and the lived experiences of families and decision makers across a diversity of sectors, cultures, and political values offers a powerful pathway forward. The need for shared leadership along that path is urgent.
The science of early childhood is a source of new ideas that could be used to develop more effective policies & services focused on the early years of life.
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