Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/using-early-childhood-brain-development-research/5012658/
In recent years, there has been increasing public interest in early childhood brain development. This is due, in part, to new technologies that allow neuroscientists to actually see inside the human brain and to share images of what they see. It is also due to the work of many national, state, and local organizations and individuals through The Reiner Foundation's I Am Your Child Campaign and the Families and Work Institute's national Early Childhood Public Engagement Campaign. These two coordinated efforts have helped galvanize public attention on how critical children's earliest years are to their future school, work, and life success.These two efforts are carried out through a nationwide Early Childhood Public Engagement Network - 105 diverse state and local coalitions and 150 national organizations that work together to:
- raise public awareness about the importance of early childhood;
- link families with young children with information, programs, and resources that help them raise healthy and successful children; and
- increase public will and action to support such programs and resources.
Throughout the country, families, early childhood programs and practitioners, educators, policy makers, employers, governors, mayors, county commissioners, legislators, faith communities, law enforcement and other state and community leaders are working together to build systems ...