Media Coverage

Worried About Your Kids’ Social Skills Post-Lockdown?


Kids are covid19 heroes too


Pandemic panic: How stress is affecting your child’s brain and what you can do about it


Toxic stress from early childhood adversity


Overcoming adversity: how low-income area public schools achieve high performance


A support guide for parents raising babies and toddlers through the coronavirus crisis


How to Find Resilience During This Difficult Time


Special message of hope to ECEC sector from Harvard’s Dr Jack Shonkoff


“As important as finding the cure to cancer”: Behind the effort to end childhood toxic stress


Are Community Schools the Future of Education Reform?


When students don’t feel safe in the neighborhood: How can schools help?


Many young children are now going without health insurance


Yes, Stress Really Is Making You Sick


Soft skills, now more than ever


The Youngest Children Are Falling Out of Health Insurance


Florida’s early intervention system can open doors to developmentally appropriate learning opportunities


‘Baby Brain’: Montgomery foundation’s work featured in documentary


Why reducing a pregnant woman’s toxic stress can improve the health of her unborn child


A science tooth fairy proposes screening children’s teeth for hints of future mental health problems


Storytime’s Brain-Building Power – First Steps


Harvard research: Poverty begins in the womb, but it doesn’t have to


How to help children who are highly susceptible to stress


Why These School Districts Serve Children Beginning at Birth


Migrant Children Held This Year by U.S. Nears a Record 70,000


U.S. Held a Record Number of Migrant Kids in Custody This Year


The U.S. has held a record 69,550 migrant children in government custody in 2019


Record number of migrant children held in US: report


Nearly 70,000 migrant children were held in the U.S. in 2019


Parental Stress Hurts Relationships and Children. Universal Child Care Could Help.


Which is better for reading to your toddler: Print or ebooks?


Talk targets childhood adversity and how to address concerns in Frederick County


The Power of Playful Learning: Creating educational settings that bring school and play together (Video)


How Positive Childhood Experiences Build Resilience


The Witnesses: Inside the detention centers that shocked America…


What motivation research can teach us about potty training


Let’s Get After It with Chris Cuomo (subscription required)


Congressmembers to hear about lasting impact of child separation


Are Chronic Illness and Trauma Related? Here’s What You Need to Know.


How detention causes long-term harm to children


The Consequences of Forced Separation: When Traumatized Children Return to Traumatized Parents


Smartphones are disrupting the crucial connections between parents and their babies


The treatment of children at the US border is more than a political crisis


How the Stress of Separation and Detention Changes the Lives of Children


Opinion: Bearing witness to the trauma in child detention centers


Children Cannot Parent Other Children


The scientific effort to protect babies from trauma before it happens


The dad from that viral baby video is demonstrating a crucial parenting skill


Tres principios para transformar el país desde la primera infancia


How to Develop a Greater Sense of Motivation in Students


Resilience requires relationships


Unlocking the Science of Motivation


California Looks To Lead Nation In Unraveling Childhood Trauma


Is Your Child an Orchid or a Dandelion? Unlocking the Science of Sensitive Kids


Novak Djokovic’s war memories make him fund childhood research


The damage the US government is doing to 12,000 kids


More migrant kids held in mass shelters, AP investigation finds


How Traumatized Children See the World, According to Their Drawings


‘Toxic stress’ on children can harm their lifelong learning, mental and physical health


The quest to find biomarkers for toxic stress, resilience in children


Childhood Trauma And Its Lifelong Health Effects More Prevalent Among Minorities


Separated families and the urgency of the ticking clock


The enormous cost of toxic stress: Repairing damage to refugee and separated children

“When traumatic experiences are imposed on young children, the impact on their bodies and brains can last a lifetime, even if those children cannot consciously remember the events that terrified them,” writes Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, who submitted this statement on behalf of Center Director Dr. Jack Shonkoff and others.


Keeping Migrant Kids in Detention Centers and Shelters Can Damage Them


When a child is traumatized, this one thing helps their recovery the most


After family separation: How to promote healing for migrant children?


Brazil’s audacious plan to fight poverty using neuroscience and parents’ love


Live Q&A: Crisis at the Border (video)


Discussion: What trauma are separated migrant children now dealing with?


Local View: All state-sponsored family separations are catastrophic moral disasters


Viewpoint: How separating children from parents causes irreparable harm


Experts warn of emotional toll on migrant children as families reunite


How trauma and stress affect a child’s brain development


5 steps to build your baby’s curious brain, according to Harvard researchers


“The only buffer you have is a parent. Take that away, and everything falls apart.”


The Effects of Parental Separation on Children (subscription required)


The health impacts of separating migrant children from parents


What to know about the negative health effects of separating kids and parents


What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’


How the toxic stress of family separation can harm a child


Commentary: Yes, teach kids how to cope — but preventing trauma in the first place is more important


Novak Partners With Harvard To Defeat ‘Toxic Effects Of Child Poverty’


The Dangers of Distracted Parenting


Immigrant Children Who Are Forcibly Separated From Their Parents Face Long-Term Trauma


Doctors prescribe books to strengthen the parent-child bond


Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test


Fighting toxic stress in children is tough but possible


Opinion: How to Turn Children Into Criminals


Platforms for Scalable Learning in the Social Sector


This program is proven to help moms and babies—so why aren’t we investing in it more?


The urban design project sneaking puzzles and hopscotch into abandoned lots

Story about Frontiers of Innovation project Urban Thinkscape


Unstable, Unsafe Housing Harms Children’s Brain Development


Como usar brincadeiras para ensinar habilidades essenciais a crianças, segundo Harvard


Prof. Phil Fisher: “The process of serve and return”


Nature and Nurture: Can new science inform child policy?


For refugee children, war zone trauma proves lasting and toxic


Little kids and ‘toxic stress’: we can solve this


The Diversity of Play

Former Richmond Fellow Lynneth Solis explores the impact play has on the cognitive development of children in Colombia.


La ciencia de un nuevo Sename


How severe, ongoing stress can affect a child’s brain

This article discusses the impact of toxic stress on early childhood development, and what some physicians, early-care providers, and community members are doing to identify and provide services to affected children and families.


How poverty affects the brain

Using brain imaging, Council Member Charles Nelson studies the impacts of poverty and childhood adversity on children’s development in Bangladesh.


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