Getting to Know Your International Contacts-Part 2

Well when we started this project I had chosen a pastor and his wife to help me out since they have been in the Philippines, but that has not worked out to well. I still would like to explore the internet to find out a little about that country. After exploring the Harvard University site the three insight I gained from the Harvard University are as follows:

1)  Early childhood development one of their priority is to adapt a successful work center in the United States.There is a plan to educate the leadership, apply new information that will address the health and devlopmental needs of the children in different settings. They would like to address the quality in an early childhood development environment, and most of all the would like to expand and improve preschool quality in Chile.

2) The Global Children's initiative is to focus on three strategic objectives:

A) To reframe public discourse about the early childhood period: this can be done by educating high-level decisionmakers, and to underlying science of learning, behavior, and in health. There seems to be a lot of programs that do not engage in science, which this is something that is hard to engage in their learning, but if you come up with some fun things the children will love working with science.
B) To expand the global understanding of how the healthy development happens, but also how it can be derailed and get back on the right track. We can all go through this in any area of our classrooms, but we have to get back on the track to proceeed with their learning.
c) To build leadership caoacity in child development research and policy: there are three domains early childhood development, mental health, and children in crisis and conflict situations this will help to build a portiflio, implement new projects, and to be able to collaborate beyond the Harvard community.

3) Child Mental Health
There are some strategies to addressthe child mental health in china, to prevent mental health problems in children who may have been affected by Hiv/Aids in Rwanda, and also addressing child maltreatment and mental health outcomes in three caribbean nations. We as a whole need address all of these issues wheather we are in the United States or not. When working with children these are areas we need to focus on especially mental health and child maltreatment.

 

References:

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children's initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/