Sharing Web Resources

Throughout my educational journey in early childhood, I have been studying several organizations. There are so many organizations that I find helpful like the National Black Child Development (NBCD). One of the things I found interesting about the NBCD, is that they have created a cultural competency tool for professionals to use to insure their curriculum is relevant to the children they are serving. As a professional it is important that I meet the needs of the children and families I work with by providing appropriate methods based on their specific needs.

One of the issues NBCD campaigns for is childhood obesity and better nutrition for black children. Teaching children how to have better nutrition at a young age is important for children to continue to have healthy eating habits throughout their lives. This information has made me more aware of this growing problem. Children need to learn that eating healthy can be fun; finding new ways to create healthy meals that children have fun eating is something I will make more efforts to achieve.

Another thing that I found interesting about NBCD organization is that they offer the public, politicians, and people of all professionals the opportunity to attend conferences and come together to discuss the betterment of children and ways to share research for early childhood programs. The organization continues to support programs for children from pre k- 3^rd grad as well as the continued support for all children in all grade levels. As long as there are organizations that bring together families, education advocates, politicians, and other professionals there is hope for early childhood to thrive.

http://nbcdi.org/

 

http://nbcdi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DRAFT-CCIT-June-2012.pdf

 

Getting To Know International Contacts

Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s (CHIP) is designed to explore the differences and gaps in poverty internationally and to initiate commitment to fight against childhood poverty. While researching CHIP, I came a across information on poverty in India. The numbers of children living in poverty are enormous. About 62 million children under the age of five live in poverty and are considered malnourished. India has the largest amount of children who are working and out of school. It is hard to fathom, that children are forced to work at a very young age to support themselves and their families. Unfortunately this large amount, consist of mostly girls.  Unfortunately gender inequality continues to have affects on many young girls in India. As a result, many young girls do not have the same opportunities given to young boys. This results in uneducated girls, who are faced with poverty from generation to generation.

Although the issue of poverty continues to affect many children in India, their are three types of programs that are currently working to assist children living in poverty, rural employment creation and infrastructure development programs; self-employment; and food subsidy programs. Programs like these are developed to help children and their families in poverty. Although there have been great strides to prevent childhood poverty, the struggle continues.

 

http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/index.php?action=countryo

Sharing Web Resources

As I continue my journey in early childhood education I decided to subscribe to National Black Child Development Institute newsletter. The organization for the last 40 years have focus its attention on black children and their families and making their lives better in regards to health, education, and their well being. The NBCDI focuses on giving children and families a chance to better themselves and to be a positive part of society.  One of the things I found interesting about the NBCDI is a new program they introduced called Parent Empowerment Project (PEP). PEP is a program created particularly for low income parents. The programs teaches parents how to empower their children to have high self esteem, positive parenting techniques, and increased knowledge of community resources. Organizations such as NBCDI although may be geared towards black children and their families, can benefit other ethnic groups as well.            

http://nbcdi.org/

Getting Ready—E stablishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

This week’s assignment is to make contact with two professionals from another country and to make efforts to study an organization of my choice. Honestly, I have made a late start to contacting two professionals outside of the United States. Therefore, I have not been successful in making contact with a professional as yet but I have not lost hope. I am hoping to make contact with the professionals I have emailed but if I don’t get a response I will have to use alternate for Part 1 of my blog assignment. The website I decided to sign up to is Harlem Children’s Zone and National Black Child Development Institute. Both organizations focus not only on education for young children but provide resources for parents, scholarship information, conferences, as well as health information.