Saturday, February 7, 2015

Harvard's Global Initiative Organization

I still have not heard back from the professionals through the nation that I contacted I could not access the pod casts so I reviewed the Harvard website for the Global Children’s Initiative to review what is happening around the world. I guess it is because as an American I tend to have tunnel vision but I always just focused on what was happening in my own backyard. The organization Global Children’s Initiative taking standards and quality of care for early childhood development all over the world and trying to help children everywhere have access to an education and an excellent standard of care. This organization is helping countries like Canada bring programs that will help educators to understand brain development of children in poverty. It is also bringing programs to families in countries like Brazil to help them understand the science of child development. Something else that this organization is doing is to help low income and poverty stricken countries to have quality child care programs that will benefit their children and hopefully help their economies in the future. This organization and its founding partner the Mother Child Education Foundation of Turkey believes in the science of early childhood development in the global efforts for improving child development. 

3 comments:

  1. Jennifer, I had to review the website as well! I, too, tend to have tunnel vision when it comes to issues that affect us globally. I was glad to learn that there are organizations that are doing something to help young children all over the world. Did you do any more reading on the website past the Global Child Initiative? There was some good information about brain development as well. Interesting stuff!

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  2. Jennifer,
    I enjoyed reviewing the Harvard's website too. I love that this website reaches out to many countries around the world. I found a lot of great resources on this website especially the learning modules.
    Machelle

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  3. Jennifer,
    It seems like most of our group had trouble getting in contact with their international contacts this week. I also did not hear back from my contacts this week so I too reviewed the Harvard website. I thought it interesting that in China they are starting, for the first ever, to look at the mental health needs of their children and adolescents. They are trying to look at the barriers that occur in that country. I really enjoyed the website.

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