In following outside links that I have not explored yet, I was drawn to a section entitled Early Care and Education. This resource provides information on the things that parents should concern themselves with when preparing to welcome their baby home and plan to return to work, what are the qualities they should be looking for in a child care setting? What is considered a high-quality child care setting for infants and toddlers? How do you prepare your baby or toddler for the transition to child care?
From the newsletter there was a podcast series available entitled New “Little Kids, Big Questions”. This is available to help parents and professionals “plug in” for information on how to raise children, ZERO TO THREE is meeting the need with its new podcast series. While everyone seems to have an opinion about how to handle parenting challenges, this podcast series empowers listeners to find their own way through, using research as their guide. Little Kids, Big Questions is a series of 12 podcasts with leading experts that translates the research of early childhood development into practices that mothers, fathers and other caregivers can tailor to the needs of their own child and family. This information does add to my understanding of equity and excellence in early care and education it indentifies that parents really want the best for their children but sometime they may not know what the best really is. The resource provides a snapshot of the best resources for children.
The new insight about issues and trends in the early childhood field I gain from the newsletter is ZERO TO THREE secured another major competitive contract from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration to operate the new Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Assistance Coordinating Center
The Center will provide coordinated training and technical assistance to states and grantees to identify the fundamental aspects of home visiting programs across selected evidence-based program models; promote the implementation of a service mix which ensures strong outcomes for vulnerable children and families; help each model convey what it does best, for whom, why, and how it works and how it can be improved by creating strong research to practice learning communities and foster strong interagency collaborations at both the Federal and state levels to help facilitate the performance of programs within a system context.
The Center will provide coordinated training and technical assistance to states and grantees to identify the fundamental aspects of home visiting programs across selected evidence-based program models; promote the implementation of a service mix which ensures strong outcomes for vulnerable children and families; help each model convey what it does best, for whom, why, and how it works and how it can be improved by creating strong research to practice learning communities and foster strong interagency collaborations at both the Federal and state levels to help facilitate the performance of programs within a system context.
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Zero to three. Retrieved from http://www.zerotothree.org/
I appreciate the fact that the podcast is available to help empower parents. I think a lot of times people forget that there is not a one size fits all when it comes to different types of parent styles and techniques. I also think it is great that ZERO TO THREE has been awarded a contract that will cater to new mothers and families; what a great success and accomplishment.
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