Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin released a Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding on January 20, 2011 which outlines steps that can be taken to remove some obstacles faced by women who want to breastfeed their babies. The Call to Action identifies ways that...
WHAT: Update on Maternal, Infant, and Child Home Visitation Webcast SPONSOR: Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) WHEN: Thursday, January 6 at 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Via the web. Please use this link to access the webcast. DESCRIPTION: The Federal Health Care...
The newest and fourth CONNECT module, Family-Professional Partnerships, from the Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge is now available. Family-Professional Partnerships focuses on effective practices for developing trusting family-professional partnerships in...
WHAT: 25th National Training Institute, Connecting Science, Policy, and Practice SPONSOR: ZERO TO THREE WHEN: Wednesday, December 8 to Saturday December 11, 2010 WHERE: JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa – Phoenix, Arizona DESCRIPTION: “Every year,...
The Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children (TACSEI) has published its fifth Roadmap to Effective Intervention Practices, “Family-Focused Interventions for Promoting Social Development in Infants and Toddlers with or at...
The Office of Child Care (formerly the Child Care Bureau) Pathways and Partnerships Initiative has published its first Pathways and Partnerships Priorities Newsletter (vol. 1, August 2010) which offers highlights from the technical assistance and child care resources...
Understanding Your Child’s Behavior: Reading Your Child’s Cues from Birth to Age Two, a new resource from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) at Vanderbilt University, will help parents better understand their...
In its September 10, 2010 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that clinicians in the United States use the 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) growth charts rather than the 2000 CDC...
WHAT: The 14th Annual Birth to Three Institute, “Looking Forward from 2010: Keeping Babies, Toddlers and Families at the Head of Early Head Start Services” SPONSOR: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)/Administration for Children and...
