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       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/