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This report published by UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti, ranks countries across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) based on their national childcare and parental leave policies. These policies include the accessibility, affordability and quality of childcare for children between birth and school age. The report notes that COVID-19-related closures of childcare facilities have pushed families of young children into further difficult circumstances. Many parents have been struggling to balance childcare and the…
The New Neighborhood is a limited series podcast that explores some of the dramatic changes taking place across the U.S. as people work to reinforce a sense of community, support young children and families, and work to build equity within communities. Each episode features emerging innovations that will create a society where all children and their families can thrive.
When the coronavirus lockdown has shrunk your world to the four walls around you, Joan Lombardi, the director of Early Opportunities, shares about caring for young children under lockdown. This is part one of a two-part interview with Joan Lombardi on the Protected! Podcast.
In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Hani Mansourian and Joan Lombardi talk about how responsive care and early…
What is toxic stress? What effects can it have on a child’s body and development, and how can those effects be prevented? What does it mean to build resilience? This episode of The Brain Architects explores what “toxic stress” means, and what we can do about it.
Host Sally Pfitzer is once again joined by Center Director Dr. Jack Shonkoff as they dive into the different types of stress, including what makes certain stress “toxic,” while…
This episode of the Mobituaries podcast describes the "Orphan Train" movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - an initiative that sent 250,000 orphaned children from the crowded cities of the East Coast of the United States and sent to the rural Western United States from 1854 to 1929. It includes an interview with the last known surviving Orphan Train rider.
"From 1854 to 1929, 250,000 abandoned or orphaned children in East Coast cities found themselves on journeys across the country. Shepherded by private organizations like the New York Foundling or the Children’s…
From brain architecture to toxic stress to serve and return, The Brain Architects, a new podcast from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, focuses on the specific, practical questions that often arise for parents and caregivers during the critically important period of early childhood.
Bringing together experts and practitioners from pediatrics, social services, and education, among other disciplines, the podcast gathers many different voices that aren’t always speaking directly to each other. And, by answering questions such as, “What does toxic stress actually look…
Virginia Commonwealth University Professors, Karen Smith Rotabi and Rosemary Farmer, examine impact of neglect on brain development in their recent podcast, Orphaned and Vulnerable Children and Brain Development. Through the persepective of the intersection of neuroscience and social welfare practice, Farmer and Rotabi examine how poverty of experience and such potential adverse situations as institutionalization disrupt brain development in babies and young children.
This radio segment from NPR explores the policy of separating migrant families at the U.S. border.
"The [U.S.] Trump administration separated far more children — the latest total stands at more than 5,500 — starting much earlier than it initially acknowledged," says this piece from NPR. "And more than 1,400 parents were ultimately deported without their children, according to immigrant advocates." In a new report from the Justice Department, "the inspector general found there was little recordkeeping and no plan for how to reunite these families." President Biden has since rescinded the 'zero tolerance' policy that led to these family separations, "but that work is far from done," says NPR…
This radio segment from NPR tells the story of a family from Honduras who were separated by Border Patrol as they entered the United States. According to the segment, the father and son were immediately turned away and sent back to Mexico upon entry, "but the mother, who was pregnant, was in pain. So Border Patrol agents took her to a nearby hospital, where she gave birth."
"Two days later, the mother was given a choice: Go back to Mexico with or without her newborn, who is a U.S. citizen by birthright."