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January 2022 Monthly updates featuring resources, events, and more from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University A Call to Action Re-Envisioning Early Childhood Policy and Practice in a World of Striking Inequality and Uncertainty New Science + More Diverse Voices = Greater Impact As a follower of our Center, you are well aware of three core scientific concepts that have driven increased investments and documented benefits for early childhood policies and services over the...

A free series of training on child/adolescent traumatic grief in response to experience of COVID-19 related deaths are now available to register. As the US Surgeon General VADM Murthy recently noted, there have been at least 140,000 children in the US who lost a parent or caregiver-- BEFORE the winter surge began. Another subset have lost both parents/caregivers and yet other friends and other family members(grandparents, etc.). These trainings from the SAMHSA/NCTSN Learning Center have free...

NEW DIGITAL PRODUCTS! Available Exclusively from CRI Works on mobile devices and computers Many customers to CRI’s product line have asked, “Can’t you offer a digital version of the deck of cards? I want to have it available on my phone to spend a minute or two on a strategy when I have a quiet moment for reflection.” Well, we listened to the feedback and we are pleased to announce we now do have a digital version for both the child-focused and the adult-focused decks! The 72-card digital...

Even small amounts of exercise can quickly and dramatically improve mood, brain health, brain function, and the ability to cope with stress, while preparing the brain to rewire the hidden wounds from childhood.

By Sam Levine, Photo: Imani Khayyam/The Guardian, The Guardian, January 8, 2022 The Mississippi officials met in the heat of summer with a singular goal in mind: stopping Black people from voting. “We came here to exclude the Negro,” said the convention’s president. “Nothing short of this will answer.” This conclave took place in 1890. But remarkably, approximately 130 years later, the laws they came up with are still blocking nearly 16% of Mississippi’s Black voting-age population from...

From Office of the Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, Photo: Unsplash, January 6, 2022 Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver on Thursday announced a proposal that will protect and expand New Mexico voting rights, including by expanding online voter registration, providing further protections for Native voters, and creating a permanent, voluntary absentee ballot request list. Amid a wave of anti-democratic sentiment nationwide that includes the implementation...

By Orion Rummler, Photo: Nolwen Cifuentes/Getty Images, The 19th*, January 10, 2022 Many LGBTQ+ youth reported high stress, anger, sadness and fear for the future at the end of 2021, and reported struggling to access basic needs during the pandemic, according to a new online poll published Monday by Morning Consult and LGBTQ+ youth crisis organization the Trevor Project. Much of the stress and sadness was caused by the record number of bills introduced last year aiming to restrict...

By Sarah Freuh, The National Academies of Sciences,Engineering, Medicine, January 7, 2022 The omicron variant-driven surge in COVID-19 over the holidays once again landed Americans in calculations about the risks and benefits of gathering with family and friends, weighing the hazard of possible illness versus the distress of loneliness and isolation. The latter can have consequences not just for happiness but for overall health, especially for the elderly, according to a National Academies...

By Sarah Fortinsky and Devan Cole, CNN Politics, January 10, 2022 A new US quarter featuring the late Maya Angelou went into circulation Monday, the US Mint announced, making the legendary poet and activist the first Black woman ever to appear on the coin. The Maya Angelou quarter is the first in the American Women Quarters Program, which will include coins featuring prominent women in American history. Other quarters in the series will begin rolling out later this year and through 2025, the...

The current early childhood ecosystem is fueled by extensive knowledge about child development, mountains of data from program evaluations, and continuing public fascination with the developing brain. Its energy is sustained by the tireless efforts of providers of early care and education, primary health care and social services, policymakers, advocates, and families raising young children under a wide range of conditions. Over the past two decades, the “brain science story” has made a...

Hi, Wanted to share these trainings once more :-) You can register on the ConnectAll webpage, under events: https://www.connectall.online/ And while they are completely free, I was reminded last night by an advocate to also say donations are accepted. Also, the registrations are embedded in the attached poster if you choose to share it that way.

Cockhren joined PACEs in 2018 as the Midwest community facilitator and then became director of the PACEs Connection’s Cooperative of Communities. She replaces Jane Stevens, who founded PACEs Connection in 2012 and who served as its CEO for the last 10 years.