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Early Childhood Publications
Fact
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Articles
- Caughy MO, O'Campo P, Muntaner C. Experiences
of racism among African American parents and the mental
health of their preschool-aged children. American
Journal of Public Health. 2004:94(12):2118-2124. Abstract
- Hack M, Taylor GH, Drotar D. Chronic conditions,
functional limitations, and special health care needs
of school-age children born with extremely low birth weight
in the 1990s. JAMA, The Journal of the American
Medical Association. 2005;294(3):318-325. Abstract
Reports/Documents
General | Cultural
Competence | Early Care and Education
| Financing | Mental
Health | Medical Homes/Primary Care
General
Early Childhood Development in Social Context: A Chartbook
contains more than 30 indicators on how young children up
to age six are faring on key markers of intellectual, social
and emotional development, and health practices for children
along with the social factors in the family and neighborhood
that affect children readiness upon school entry. From the
Integrating Measures of Early Childhood Health and
Development into State Title V Maternal and Child Health
Services Block Grant Plans.
The brief provides information about opportunities for collaboration
with state MCH programs for policy makers, program managers,
and providers concerned with early childhood health and
development. Report
Cultural
Competence
The Role of State Early Childhood Comprehensive
Systems in Promoting Cultural Competence and Effective Cross-Cultural
Communication explores what it means for services
to be culturally competent and how SECCS grantees can work
toward enhanced levels of competence. From the National
Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy.
Report
Early Care and
Education
Indicators of Early School Success
and Child Well-Being, a new CrossCurrents data brief from
the Child Trends DataBank, examines indicators of well-being
and development among children entering kindergarten and
describes changes in these indicators as children move from
kindergarten to first grade. Report
State Developments in Child Care, Early Education,
and School-Age Care Children’s Defense Fund
2001
The reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block
Grant in 2002 offers an important opportunity to help states
meet the child care needs of their families and children.
Research shows that as states have increasingly recognized
that child care is critical to helping families work and
children to succeed in school, investments in child care
assistance have grown. Report
Making Investments in Young Children: What the
Research on Early Care and Education Tells Us. National
Association of Child Advocates, December 2000
This issue brief discusses the most recent and reliable
research on early care and education (ECE) and its implications
for policy making. Report
State Approaches to Promoting Young Children's
Healthy Mental Development: A Survey of Medicaid, and Maternal
and Child Health, and Mental Health presents information
on how states are addressing the healthy social emotional
development of children from birth to age 3. The report,
produced by the National Academy of State Health Policy
with support from the Commonwealth Fund summarizes responses
to a February 2005 survey of state agency representatives
in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and identifies
many opportunities to improve screening, assessment and
diagnosis, and treatment and referral for young children
and their mothers. Other topics include coordination of
services, quality assurance, provider education, and system
capacity. Priority issues and a conclusion are also provided.
Report
United States Government and Accountability Office, September
2004.
This work focused on four states that have expanded their
preschool programs to serve more children. In these states,
GAO addressed (1) how prekindergarten programs were designed
and funded, (2) the potential implications of these program
features for children’s participation and other programs
that serve four year-olds, and (3) the outcome data that
have been collected on participating children and families.
To gather this information, GAO conducted site visits in
four states—Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and Oklahoma.
Report
No Child Left Behind (NCLB): The Education Trust
Announces the Release of Two Brief Documents Explaining
the Accountability and Public Reporting Provisions of NCLB
The first brief "The ABC's of AYP" explains in
plain language how the law works. The second brief "Questions
to Ask About NCLB" lists the information the public
is entitled to under NCLB. Report
Financing
Spending Smarter: A Funding Guide for Policymakers
and Advocates to Promote Social and Emotional Health and
School Readiness
Using these strategies, state and community policymakers,
agency officials, families, and other advocates can help
maximize the impact of existing funding streams and use
available resources more effectively to address the social
and emotional challenges that prevent early school success.
From the The National Center for Children in Poverty. Report
Mental Health
Clinical Interventions to Enhance Infant
Mental Health: A Selective Review describes many
interventions designed to influence the development of healthy
parent-infant relationships and infant social-emotional
development, including universal and preventive approaches,
focused/indicated interventions, and tertiary care-psychotherapeutic
approaches. From the National Center for Infant and Early
Childhood Health Policy. Report
Improving Maternal and Infant Mental Health: Focus
on Maternal Depression discusses the impact of
maternal depression on the social and emotional health of
young children and recommends specific steps that early
childhood programs and public health administrators can
take to address the unmet mental health needs of mothers.
From the National Center for Infant and Early Childhood
Health Policy.Report
Medical Home
Strategies for Integrating Developmental Services and Promoting
Medical Homes addresses how the medical home concept
contributes to the child health policy and practice improvement
agenda of the MCHB/SECCS initiative. From the National Center
for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy. Report
How Head Start Helps Children with Disabilities
and Their Families details the requirements that Head Start
grantees must meet to serve children with disabilities and
provides data on how grantees are meeting these requirements.
The paper, a joint venture between the Center for Law and
Social Policy and Easter Seals, updates data from a 2003
paper of the same title. Report
Developmental Services in Primary Care for Low-Income
Children: Clinicians' Perceptions of the Healthy Steps for
Young Children Program. Journal of Urban Health
81(2):206-221.
Difficulties with providing quality primary health care
for low-income Americans have been well documented. Few
studies have addressed the challenges faced by pediatric
clinicians serving low-income families or whether practice-based
interventions improve clinicians' ability to provide quality
preventive health services. We investigated if, over time,
the Healthy Steps for Young Children program affected the
practices and perceptions of clinicians in pediatric primary
care practices serving low-income families compared to practices
serving more affluent families. Report
Last Updated
March 23, 2007
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