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Services for Families of Infants and Toddlers Experiencing Trauma: A Research-to-Practice Brief, ACF.HHS.gov This brief summarizes what is known about the impact of trauma on infants and toddlers, and the intervention strategies that could potentially...

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Absent federal action, local jurisdictions are increasingly looking for ways to help working parents. America is waking up to child care as a major political issue. Back in January, President Obama discussed it at length for the first time in his...

  As business leaders who realize that more and more California jobs require advanced education, we know California’s preschools are essential for workforce development, to avoid a serious skills gap. We are also excited to see that this...

  You look so…well rested,” a woman recently told a friend of mine, upon learning that she had a four-month old. “It was like I didn’t have the right to look well rested—I wasn’t being appropriately...

Every year, thousands of children in the U.S. are expelled from school before they reach kindergarten. PBS News Hour special correspondent Molly Knight Raskin reports on the Head Start-Trauma Smart program in Kansas City, Missouri, thats trying...

The first time she witnessed a student's major tantrum — a 2-year-old hurling a toy stove filled with plastic pots and pans — Shanikia Johnson had just started as a teacher at Little Flowers Child Development Center in West Baltimore....

  In recent years, there has been a surge  of research into early brain development. Neuroimaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), provide increased insight about how the brain develops and how early experiences affect...

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Today I stumbled on an "old" resource and was reminded about what great and accessible information it has.   Calmer Classrooms   was published in 2007 by the Child Safety Commissioner in Victoria Australia. It is full of excellent and...

A Strengths Based Approach to Trauma Informed Care Assessment Process for Early Care and Education Programs...

  Each year within the US alone over 770,000 children are victimized by abuse and neglect (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010), and this figure is likely to underestimate the extent of the problem. Researchers have long recognized...