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Resilience
Brief description: Children and youth can experience many forms of adversity. Sometimes mild, like not being understood by adults when trying to express their needs, sometimes severe, like being exposed to poverty, domestic violence, and war. Faced with heightened adversity, some children will develop negative outcomes whereas other children will stay on a healthy course…
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Importance of Early Years
Brief description: Early child development sets the foundation for lifelong learning, behavior, and health. Experiences from birth to age 8 affect the development of the brain’s architecture and a strong foundation helps children develop the skills they need to become well-functioning adults. A child’s brain undergoes an amazing period of rapid development from birth to…
