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Quality Practices for Working with Infants and Toddlers
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Polk, Cheryl; Bogard, Kimber – ZERO TO THREE, 2016
The science is unequivocal in showing that infants and toddlers begin learning very young, and the workforce must be equipped with the specific skills and practices to fully support this important period of development. A major conclusion in the 2015 report from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, "Transforming the…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Development, Child Caregivers
Endorsement®: A National Tool for Workforce Development in Infant Mental Health
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Funk, Sadie; Weatherston, Deborah J.; Warren, Mary G.; Schuren, Nicole R.; McCormick, Ashley; Paradis, Nichole; Van Horn, Jacqui – ZERO TO THREE, 2017
The Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health® (Endorsement®) recognizes knowledge, skills, and reflective experiences that promote quality service when working with or on behalf of infants, toddlers, and families. Developed by the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health, the…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Knowledge Level, Reflection, Toddlers
Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation. Consensus Study Report
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Allen, LaRue, Ed.; Kelly, Bridget B., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2015
Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Education
Large-Scale Economic Change and Youth Development: The Case of Urban China
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Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Way, Niobe; Chen, Xinyin – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
Social ecological and dynamic systems theories propose that human development is shaped by the cumulative impact of social interactions in proximal and distal settings, which are themselves influenced by social and economic forces. The understanding of the links between microsystem-level factors (such as parenting styles and parent-child…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Economic Change, Child Development
Two-Generation Programs in the Twenty-First Century
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Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Future of Children, 2014
Most of the authors in this issue of "Future of Children" focus on a single strategy for helping both adults and children that could become a component of two-generation programs. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, on the other hand, look at actual programs with an explicit two-generation focus that have been tried in the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Early Childhood Education, Adult Education, Job Training
Advancing the Early Childhood Workforce: Implementation of Training and Retention Initiatives in the Bay Area. Policy Brief 04-1
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Johnson, Laura Ruth; Pai, Seeta A.; Bridges, Margaret – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ1), 2004
Nationwide, public attention has increasingly focused on the need for a variety of early care and education arrangements to meet the changing needs of families. The demand for early care and education has grown for families from all socioeconomic sectors, intensifying as participants in welfare-to-work programs enter the workforce, and as work…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Force Development, Child Care, Child Development