Three key messages can help guide our thinking in a time when innovation has never been more needed in public systems in order to improve both health and learning.
This Working Paper examines how developing biological systems in the body interact with each other and adapt to the contexts in which a child is developing—for better or for worse—with lifelong consequences for physical and mental health.
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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Using current best practices as a starting point, the Center works with a network of fellow change agents to design, implement, and evaluate innovative, science-based practice models that achieve transformational change for vulnerable children and families.
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Innovation does not happen in a vacuum. To bring about lasting, population-level change for children facing adversity, we must foster a movement of collective change.
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Learn more about Collective Change"Biologically, the brain is prepared to be shaped by experience. It's expecting the experiences that a young child has to literally influence the formation of its circuitry. It's built into our biology." https://t.co/pZzjaaLsD0
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