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If you are a parent or work with parents of young children, then you know that it can be difficult to give children everything that they need to thrive. This course is a resource for parents or those who work with parents of young children to support them to provide brain-building experiences and nurturing care.
In this course, you’ll gain an understanding of who the caregivers of young children are in your context. It will help you to better understand how the life experiences, environment, relationships, and beliefs of parents shape the kind of opportunities, care, and support…
Are you a policymaker or decisionmaker in your community or country? Does your work in health and nutrition, education, child protection, agriculture and food security, WASH, emergency preparedness, or some other field have connections to early childhood development? Chances are that your work does relate to the critical period of child development from conception to age eight years.
This workshop draws upon content from the Nurturing Care Framework, the Science of Early Child Development and the Beginning of Life film, to walk…
The World Health Organization in collaboration with partners has completed the first version of the Nurturing Care Handbook. This handbook is part of a set of resources for implementing the Nurturing Care Framework.
The handbook is composed of 6 guides. The first provides a general orientation and the remaining five guides correspond to the five strategic actions of the Nurturing Care Framework and can be read in any order.
Supporting the health and well-being of children and families of color requires implementing comprehensive strategies that address systemic and institutional racism. This report offers a blueprint for creating equity-centered, anti-racist policies that support the health and well-being of children and families of color.
Este recurso de CAFO provee guía a individuos dedicados a servir a niños y familias en riesgo en construir la resiliencia a través de las relaciones para ayudarles a construir un futuro mejor.
Read the English version here.
This e-book from CAFO provides guidance to individuals dedicated to serving at-risk children and families on how to build resilience through relationship to help them build better futures.
Read the Spanish version here.
Created by Youth in Focus, Building Cognitive and Social-Emotional (CSE) Competencies is a one-day training that takes a deeper dive into one of the five Youth Thrive Protective and Promotive Factors and builds on content in other Youth Thrive training. This Module explores how cognitive and social-emotional abilities operate in youth’s daily experience and personal lives and what we can do to help young people develop and strengthen these skills in order to thrive.
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Enabling young children to achieve their full developmental potential is a human right and an essential requisite for sustainable development. Given the critical importance of enabling children to make the best start in life, the health sector, among other sectors, has an important role and responsibility to support nurturing care for early childhood development. This guideline provides direction for strengthening policies and programmes to better address early childhood development.
It is primarily the family who provides the nurturing care that children need…
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This resource guide aims to support UNICEF country teams, development partners and governments to deliver at-scale and sustainable results for early childhood development (ECD). It explains how to diagnose and analyse public finance issues in different country contexts, and describes core actions and key analytical tools to generate essential evidence for policy development, advocacy and support for government budget decision-making and coordination. It includes case studies illustrating how UNICEF, partners and governments have successfully strengthened domestic financing for…
This Resource Guide is a joint product of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau, its Child Welfare Information Gateway, and the FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention. The annual guide is one of the Children’s Bureau’s most anticipated publications, offering trusted information, strategies, and resources to help communities support and strengthen families and promote the well-being of children and youth. Its contents are informed by input from some of our National Child Abuse Prevention Partners as well as our colleagues on the Federal…