Exploring Globally

Exploring the website Partnerships with Global Early Childhood Organizations from the Center of the Developing Child from Harvard University there is a wealth of information about young children from around the world as well as many issues in this field. The Center of Developing Children offers the insight of "Recent reports estimate that 200 million children fail to reach their full developmental potential by age 5" (n.d.). Understanding this, it is important to know how many organizations around the world are assisting those who need support to ensure young children are offered the best start to life. 

The Center of Developing Child uses the following as a guide to assist these international organizations:
"Coordinated strategies to support child development can multiply the effects of investments in child survival, health, education, and economic development. We need to protect children from significant adversity, in addition to providing them with enriched learning opportunities. The early childhood years are critical building blocks for lifelong health, not just school readiness" (n.d.). 

These idea for how to assist young children on a global scale offers the foundation for how to help the organizations. These can be skills or ideas that any early childhood professional can add to daily work with young children to ensure the best for each child the professional is working with. I will strive to make these a part of my daily rhetoric. 

Three countries the Center of the Developing Child illustrates as those in need are Brazil, Mexico, and Canada.

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In Brazil, Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância (NCPI). This organization includes a network or school and hospitals to support the efforts and work being accomplished in Brazil. Due to the collaboration with the Center of the Developing Child, "This partnership has been highly successful in creating a science-driven early childhood movement in Brazil, most notably through training Brazilian policy makers training Brazilian policy makers on how to apply developmental science to inform programs and policies and, recently, through launching the iLab Primeira Infância" (n.d.). 

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The Aceleradora de Innovación para la Primera Infancia in Mexico offers a great collaboration with the Center of the Developing Child and brings forth an education institute to offer "A strong interest in adding a human development focus to their work led the Monterrey team to connect with the Center and learn more about our strategy for enhancing child outcomes through adult capacity building" (n.d.). Providing this support offers a great start for those in this nation to offer the best understanding for how to support young children in early development and the role this offers into adulthood.

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The partnership with Canada's Alberta Family Wellness Initiative has a mission directly in line with the Center of the Developing Child which is to understand the "strong belief in the power of translating the science of child development to inform public policy" (n.d.). As this is such an important aspect of ensuring children are being offered the best start to life, it is important to ensure policy is being influences properly and accurately.

All three of these organizations are taking the stand of ensuring science is driving policy and standards and this is so important in the field of early childhood development because of the foundation it offers everyone. This information is something that all people should have regardless of economic status or skin color. We are all human and require the same needs to grow and develop so working on this in a global effort is so important to give every child the same care that any other child in another nation is being offered. 

References

Partnerships with Global Early Childhood Organizations. (n.d.). Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global-work/