The Center on the Developing Child was founded in 2006 by director Jack P. Shonkoff, MD the founding mission statement was to generate, translate, and apply scientific knowledge to close the gap of what we know and what we want to do to improve children lives. The activities of the Center align around building research and development (R & D) platform for science based innovation, and transforming the policy and practice landscape that supports and demands change. The reason why the Center do this is because society pays a huge price when children do not reach their potential because policies and programs have not produced outcomes, so science and breakthrough can be used so children can have a promising future.
The Center on the Developing Child works globally, according to the report on the site there is an estimated 200 million children fail to reach their full developmental potential by age 5. The Center works around the globe to achieve positive breakthrough outcomes for children all over the world. The Center works with Brazil on strengthening early childhood development and has been very successful creating a childhood movement there.
Three new ideas I gained from the website are protecting children from adversity that's significant, strategies to support child development that can be crucial to child survival, their health, education, and economic development, and building brains. Children need sturdy foundations when it comes to the architecture of their brains. I watched a brain builder video on the site and it explained how brains are built based on our experiences good or bad. Interactions with children are helpful and there is a method called serve and return which helps with contact, touch and other things that will contribute to the overall building of a healthy brain function.
Great Post. When I reached the last paragraph I had to go watch the brain video. It was very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
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