Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
9 August 2018
Tela, Honduras
Radio
5-15 Minutes
SOS Children's Villages is a non-profit group that services more than 80,000 kids. Their successful model emphasizes love, family, and relationships, even though the children aren't being raised in a "traditional" fam...
8 August 2018
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) works with Philadelphia families to improve outcomes for low-income children. By bringing educational materials and lessons into the home, the service providers, who are all from the c...
High Country News
Kathi Beeks
17 July 2018
Montana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Trauma-informed care and social support systems encourage resilience in the face of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). With evidence of strong links between childhood trauma and long-term health, behavioral, and ev...
18 June 2018
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
To address the lack of licensed child care centers, a San Francisco startup has helped to start 150 in-home care centers in the Bay area, LA, and New York. Wonderschool works closely with caregivers, providing consult...
15 June 2018
Bogotá, Colombia
Text
800-1500 Words
Participation in art and music improves cognitive development and fosters social skills in young children. In Bogotá, Columbia, a program developed by Nidos: Art in Early Childhood provides tens of thousands of childr...
Searchlight New Mexico
Lauren Villagran
2 June 2018
Pensacola, Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A Pensacola project is providing new parents with “brain bags”—books to read to their children as well as resources about early childhood development as it relates to language. By educating parents about the impact of...
24 May 2018
Kigali, Rwanda
Text
800-1500 Words
Rwanda is approaching an ambitious goal - to be orphanage-free - and it's doing so by working to place children in orphanages with extended family and relatives, foster care, or re-integrating into society with the he...
12 April 2018
Kingston, Jamaica
Text
1500-3000 Words
Play encourages early childhood development. Reach Up sends doctors and nurses to show mothers in poverty, who are often overburdened in trying to lessen other disadvantages for their children, how to play with their ...
30 January 2018
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Childhood trauma has lasting effects on development and stress response, but these can be treated with behavioral therapy and proper interventions. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris of the Center For Youth Wellness insists that...
WABE
Martha Dalton
21 December 2017
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
For many parents childcare can be very expensive, however, recently employers have started helping employees overcome this barrier. Little Apron Academy is a childcare center that Home Depot is partnered with and allo...
18 December 2017
United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
A comic book of Syrian folktales takes into consideration the wellbeing of children in a situation otherwise characterized by hardship and trauma. Whether they are living in the warn-torn country or in a refugee camp,...
6 November 2017
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Investing in home-visit programs provides crucial support to low income, first time mothers and reduces overall government healthcare costs. The Nurse-Family Partnership, in coordination with the US Department of Heal...
1 November 2017
Brazil
Text
800-1500 Words
Brazil's national Happy Child program, modeled after similar initiatives on the local level and in Jamaica, is working to help parents develop their children's motor coordination and cognitive development. The program...
26 October 2017
Karachi, Pakistan
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
For disease eradication campaigns to succeed, public health officials need to interact with the public. In Pakistan, the front line against polio is comprised of women who reach out to directly to families with young ...
24 October 2017
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Isolating or punitive methods in early childhood education can have a lasting effect on a 'problematic' child, leading to greater behavioural problems. Collaborative Problem Solving techniques, such as 'Plan B', requi...
21 August 2017
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Home visit programs, where family support workers meet with expecting and new parents, are at risk of not getting funding. Advocates stress the importance of these programs for improving parenting skills, providing a ...
The New York Times
Catherine Saint Louis
30 July 2017
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
From New York to Ohio to California, librarians have teamed up with the USDA summer food service program, along with other non-profits, to feed kids dependent on free/reduced-price lunches during the school year. Usin...
Christian Science Monitor
Henry Gass
14 June 2017
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
New Orleans is home to a high number of teens with severe trauma and emotional disturbance, who are underserved in regular school settings. Alternative programs that focus more on 'behavior than academics' are offerin...
Richland Source
Brittany Schock
25 April 2017
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Community Health Workers in Richmond County work to reduce barriers - including employment, education, smoking, food security or housing - that may contribute to the likelihood of infant mortality. Using the Community...
16 March 2017
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Students who have experienced trauma, most common in high-poverty areas, are more likely to benefit from counseling and support rather than punishment. However, most large U.S. school districts with high poverty rates...
Coloradoan
Jacy Marmaduke
8 March 2017
Colorado, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
High caseworker turnover in Larimer County has led to poorer outcomes for children and high stress for the caseworkers themselves. To help combat this high turnover the salaries have been increased, retention incentiv...
CNN
Susan Scutti
6 March 2017
Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
With rates of childhood obesity increasing around the county, Howard County, Maryland, launched a three-year media campaign to combat sugary drink sales. After looking at data, researchers conclude that soda sales in ...
8 February 2017
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
For women in traditional rehab centres, choosing treatment means leaving their children behind. Family House NOW (New Options for Women), is a residential treatment center in Philadelphia that allows women to live wit...
6 February 2017
Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Mounting evidence points to an increasing disparity in the educational achievements of those children who attend and complete pre-school, and those who do not. The Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters ...
BBC
Emma Wilson
Sahar Zand
18 December 2016
Tarma, Junín, Peru
Radio
Over 15 Minutes
One in three children in Peru are stunted by a lack of nutritious foods in their diet. In 2005, the government gave cash hand-outs to poor mothers, but only on the condition that they had regular health check-ups and ...
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