GLOBAL
CHILDREN’S INITIATIVE
Resources available across
Harvard University’s graduate schools
and affiliated hospitals, the
Center generates, translates, and applies knowledge in the service of improving
life outcomes for children in the United States and throughout the world.
Specifically, the Center is committed to:
• Building a unified science
of health, learning, and behavior to explain the early roots of lifelong impairments;
• Leading the design,
implementation, and evaluation of innovative program and practice models
that reduce preventable
disparities in well-being;
• Catalyzing the
implementation of effective, science-based public policies through
strategic relationships and knowledge transfer; and
• Preparing future and current
leaders to build and leverage knowledge that promotes the healthy development
of children and families and brings high returns to all of society Harvard
University Global, (2010).
Some of these issues have been due to their country
insights of where their Early Childhood programs are or need to be.
Three areas guided by these strategic objectives, the Global Children’s Initiative are;
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Early childhood development;
·
Child mental health; and
·
Children in crisis and conflict situations
SOURCES
Other sources of Center acknowledges the important
contributions made to the development of the Global Children's Initiative by
the Mother Child Education
Foundation (AÇEV) of Turkey, which served as Founding Partner for the
initial planning of the Center's global agenda.
There are others around the world who are willing to help this global
team.
Zambian Early Childhood Development Project
To
address this knowledge gap, the Zambian Ministry of Education, the Examination
Council of Zambia, UNICEF, the University of Zambia, and the Center on the
Developing Child at Harvard University launched the Zambian Early Childhood
Development Project (ZECDP) in 2009, a collaborative effort to measure the
effects of an ongoing anti-malaria initiative on children’s development in
Zambia
Applying the Science of Early Childhood in
Brazil
As part
of its Global Children’s Initiative, the Center is launching Núcleo Ciência
Pela Infância, its first major programmatic effort outside the United States.
In collaboration with local experts, the project aims to use the science of
child health and development to guide stronger policies and larger investments
to benefit young children and their families in Brazil.
These
are all new insights for me, to see other counties putting children first and
putting programs in place for their development, and health.
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