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Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

Community networks organized around ACEs and resilience, like those participating in MARC, provide a ready vehicle for concerned moms (and non-moms) to join the movement to end childhood trauma and to create a just, healthy and resilient world.

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MARC

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

A core component of a healthy school environment is supporting social and emotional learning. Social and emotional learning includes knowledge and skills such as understanding and managing emotions, setting and achieving positive goals, feeling and showing empathy for others and making responsible...

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Alexandra Mays

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

Underlying the buzzwords “social emotional health” and “trauma-informed care” is some astounding new knowledge that will knock your socks off if you haven’t heard about it. And once you grok it, it will change your entire outlook on why humans behave the way they do, including kids. This new...

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Jane Stevens

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

As a mother of two, including one with special needs and a birth defect, I have seen first-hand how parents, children and society all win when families have access to high-quality affordable childcare, early learning programs, and mental health programs that take children’s social and emotional...

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Sheila Arias

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

Moms don’t need much convincing: we know that the early childhood years are critically important in setting the stage for all that life has to bring, and the ways that children learn how to respond and react. Young children’s social and emotional development - that is, how they learn to relate to...

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Lindsey Allard Agnamba

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

When we hear about a person’s mental health, it’s often in the context of a problem – a colleague is struggling to handle stress at work, a friend’s child is having behavioral problems at school, or a family member has received a diagnosis. And almost always, these discussions are limited to older...

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Matthew Melmed

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

I recently traveled to East Tennessee, up in the Appalachians, and the green and mountainous beauty all around really struck me. At the same time, I heard how difficult life there can be, especially for the adorable elementary-school children I was meeting. My local colleagues shared with me a wide...

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Sarah Wakeen

Families & The Federal Budget

04/15/16

April 18th is Tax Day! You will be paying your taxes but some wealthy corporations will be skipping out on billions of dollars in taxes. Lets send them and Congress a message on Twitter from 2-3pm ET.

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Elyssa Schmier

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Food!

04/15/16

Study after study has shown that healthy Latino children are more likely to become healthy Latino adults. And most eating habits are formed when children are young. Ensuring children entering kindergarten start at a healthy weight will help them, giving them a better chance of not developing...

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Migdalia Rivera

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

04/15/16

Maverick Bishop says he and his mom have stayed in every homeless shelter there is in San Francisco. When there wasn’t room in the shelters, they slept in hospital lobbies, along with other, even-less-desirable locations. Yesterday, he shared his story with members of Congress to try to protect and expand programs that helped him and his mom, and shed light on the need for more resources for programs to help others escape poverty.

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