Sharing Web Resources

The website that I chose was National Black Child Development Institute. I enjoy going to the news section of the website, there are many articles and others web pages that offer great information that relates to my professional development.  I came across a great article called Child Health Talk this article was about getting children back to playing. I was drawn to this article because it tied in to what Dr. Grace’s video, when she talked on the importance of play and how we don’t allow children to do it like in the past. The article talks about how research about play shows its role in supporting cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development. How play also strengthens creativity and academic achievement, and relieves the symptoms of attention deficit disorder, anxiety, depression, and potentially debilitating health conditions like obesity and diabetes, among other major benefits.

          After reading this article, it has just reinforced my position of the importance of play. I didn’t find any specific articles that related to economists, neuroscientists, or politicians support the early childhood field. There were articles that discussed funding for the early childhood and also funding for the institute.

Reference:

Marshall, D. (2012) Playing Alone: How Unstructured Play Improves Children’s Health.

Retrieved from http://nbcdi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/CHT-Spring-2012.pdf

Poverty in India

In 2001, India was estimated to have about 1.03 billion citizens; India's population is second to China.  It is stated that in 1999-2002 there was over 200 million people living in poverty in India.

In India half of the children which accounts for over 62 million are under the age of five and are malnourished. More than thirty percent of their newborns are considerably underweight.

India accounts for more than 20 percent of the children who are out of school. India has the largest number in the world of children who are under the age of sixteen and working.

Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s (CHIP) India.(n.d.) Retrieved (http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/),

Sharing Web Resources

       The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) is a Black Women’s Community Development Foundation that was concern with the unsatisfactory conditions that faced families who wanted to rear healthy children, so they decided to organize a national advocacy group. In 1970, they began to organize groups within communities as a basis for creating a unified national voice to develop strategies to improve the life circumstances of the developing Black child through policy change.

         The NBCDI mission is to improve and advance the lives of black children and their families through education and advocacy. Their focus is on early childhood education, child welfare, elementary and secondary education, and health, the Institute accomplishes by their mission. They are a good source of information for educators and all people in the early childhood filed as well as the community. They provide services for early childhood education, family support and health care for children. They work to   create public policy and influence legislation that directly affects the lives of African American children.

        An article that I found on the website in the archives talked about getting children to move, “Let’s Move Child Care,” it talked about children being overweight or obese by age 6, and how as child care providers we can help instill healthy choices that could help prevent childhood obesity. It gave things that we can do to give children a good health start.

National Black Child Development Institute

 http://nbcdi.org/ 

Establishing Professional Contacts

To get some professional contacts I went through The Global Alliance of NAEYC, listings.

I sent emails to:

Ajoke International School in Nigeria

Step by Step/Tipa Tipa in Haiti

OMEP Comité Nacional Mexicano, in Mexico

Ps. Aura Rodríguez de Montes, in Honduras

I received a "could not deliver " message back from my Honduras contact

I’m waiting to hear back from my contacts, if I can’t make contact with any of these professions I will have to go the alternative assignment.

 Part 2, Expanding Resources

National Black Child Development Institute
http://nbcdi.org/

I love looking through the site, I chose this one because It was new to me and I want to learn more about what they are doing.