An increasing number of pediatric care facilities employ child life specialists—trained, certified professionals who focus on young patients’ experiences and...
Researchers presenting at the recent 2019 Zero to Three conference detailed a program that studies have found effective in treating...
Guilford, the third largest county in North Carolina, was the site of the 1960 Woolworth counter sit-in that helped spread...
Big Plans for Little Kids
Just Don’t Call It Shark Tank for Toddlers
Well before the rest of us started hunkering down and conducting most of our meetings via online video platforms, Promise...
When some of us think about meditation, our thoughts lean toward the sound of a softly gurgling fountain, a gentle...
Just a few weeks after Oregon’s Department of Early Learning and Care broke off from the state’s Department of Education...
I see people signing all the time because I live in the Washington, D.C., area near the Red Line, which...
Partnership for America’s Children Nurtures a New Generation of Advocates and Leaders
5 Ways Millennials Push for State and Local Policy Change
Marquita Little Numan took the helm of Partnership for America’s Children last August, just a few weeks before the Executive...
Throughout most of human history and in most of the world, that paradigm of children playing outdoors as a part of childhood has been so integral as to be transparent. Not so in the U.S., where, according to the Child Mind Institute, the average American child spends four to seven minutes a day in unstructured play outdoors and more than seven hours a day in front of a screen. Washington State is changing that.
Growing the Pipeline of Early Childhood Educators
Neighborhood Villages Apprenticeship Program Graduates First Cohort and Continues to Grow
Cassandra Antoine always knew she wanted to work with children. Her goal was to open her own child care center,...
As founder of the groundbreaking Roots of Empathy program and author of the bestselling book by the same name, Mary...
In 2016, Alma Gonzalez, a passionate Latino community leader and volunteer, along with the community organization Eastside Pathways, identified the...
