ZERO TO THREE: National Parent Survey Overview
This overview shares the key findings of a national study conducted across the United States by ZERO TO THREE with parents of children birth to 5 years. The findings demonstrated, in particular, a desire to access parenting skills development, particularly through trusted sources that know the family personally; fathers’ desire for more involvement in parenting; and a significant lack of knowledge about the key brain and emotional development stages for children in the first three years of life.
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Updated BCACCS Curriculum Kits
The BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (BCACCS) are in the process of updating their popular curriculum kits. Drum, salmon, bear and owl are complete and coyote, raven, eagle, canoe, cedar, and traditional foods kits will be available soon.
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ECEBC Early Child Educator (Summer 2017) “Keeping Children Safe Means Letting Them Take Risks”
In an article for the ECEBC Early Child Educator, Dr. Mariana Brussoni talks about the current “unprecedented curtailing of children’s outdoor and risky play that is already impacting children’s health and development …. When we try to limit children’s risky play, we rob them of these fundamental opportunities, which ironically, could result in them being less safe.”
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Harvard University Serve and Return: 5 Steps for Brain-Building
Harvard University’s Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND) program uses video coaching to strengthen positive interaction between caregivers and children. It uses select clips of adults engaging with children to reinforce developmentally supportive interactions, known as “serve and return”, developing skills by building on caregivers’ existing strengths and capabilities.
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Dieticians of Canada: Raising our Healthy Kids
Last autumn, First Call wrote a public letter to the new BC Minister of Health, Adrian Dix, asking for a reversal of the decision made by the previous provincial government to the Child Care Licensing Regulations, to reduce the outdoor space per child for licensed child care programs from 7 square metres per child to 6 square metres, and requesting that the minimum outdoor play space per child be increased.
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“Good Sleep for Good Growth” - New Sleeping Behavior Info Sheet
“Good sleep, for Good Growth” is a new sleeping behavior information sheet for parents produced by The Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development and the Strategic Knowledge cluster on Early Child Development.
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CHNET-WORKS! Webinar - Caesarean Section After the Hospital: Public Health Perspectives on the CARE Strategy
CHNET-WORKS! recent webinar, Caesarean Section After the Hospital: Public Health Perspectives on the CARE Strategy, focused on long term outcome targets to decrease the use of medical intervention in low risk births and increase positive health outcomes related to breastfeeding, mental health, infant attachment, and parenting confidence.
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ELSA Net updates Newcomer & Diversity ECE Resources
ELSA Net has updated its popular Newcomer & Diversity ECE Resources: See what’s new!
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Nurturing Our Young Pays Off
Encouraging news that warm, supportive family environments may be able to mitigate some of the adult health challenges linked to poor socioeconomic status in early life.
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The Right to Play: Early Childhood in Focus
Why does play matter? This is a question asked in "The Right to Play," published by the Bernard van Leer Foundation to coincide with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment No. 17, which aims to strengthen implementation of children’s right to rest, leisure, play and recreational activities.
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Pregnancy & Parenting / Healthy Families BC
PHAC has engaged with the Ministry of Health in the creation of a new online resource offering supports to assist in learning more about planning for a pregnancy, care during pregnancy, labour, birth, as well as postpartum baby and toddler care.
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Early Childhood Matters Magazine Feature: Health for Learning: The Care for Child Development Package
In this article from the Bernard van Leer Foundation Early Childhood Matters magazine, the authors introduce the World Health Organization and UNICEF Care for Child Development package, an evidence-based set of materials to help health sector workers to support caregivers in improving the sensitivity, responsiveness and psychosocial stimulation of their children.
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Early Childhood Matters Magazine Feature
Click here to read an overview of an article presented by David W. Kritt on cognitive development theory and how this relates to optimized learning in children.
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Learning From the Bumps in the Road: Insights From Early Childhood Leaders
Four respected joint workshop presenters in the early childhood field have brought together 12 of their most important topics as essays in this newly published book.
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Early Childhood Matters Magazine Feature
“By the time most kids start preschool, aged around 3, the most important building blocks for learning have already been put in place.”
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The Promise of the Early Years: How Long Should Children Wait?
Click here to read a commentary from the Canadian Paediatric Society that reinforces the best practices embraced by CAPC, CPNP and AHS programs across BC.
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ECD and the Election Webinar + First Call Election Kit
With a Provincial Election around the corner, First Call has once again published an elections kit that will help parents, professionals, advocates and concerned citizens make sure that issues relating to children and youth are heard this May.
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Family is the Foundation Paper by FRP Canada
This paper offers significant research and quotes on the significance of community based family and prenatal support programs.
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Top 10 Canadian Early Childhood Development Studies of the Year: Socioeconomic Status and Brain Development
The Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development annually releases a compilation of the 10 best Canadian studies in the field of Early Childhood Development.
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