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The three consequences of learning about the international early childhood field was from the insight of The Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s which indicates that there are over 600 million children worldwide that live in poverty. In a lot of countries 60 percent of children live in households that are below international poverty lines. 

One consequence is to draw focus to the ways in which poverty affects large numbers of urban and rural children, not only particularly disadvantaged groups such as street children or child-headed households (childhood poverty.org).

The second is the way the CHIP program try’s to emphasize the importance of preventing poverty in the mainly vulnerable first years of life, which can reduce the consequences of poverty continuing over an individual’s life course or through the generation (childhood poverty.org).

 The consequence of poverty denies opportunities to people of all ages. Lost opportunities in childhood may not always be regained later childhood. Poverty experienced by children, even in short periods, can affect the rest of their lives. Malnutrition in early childhood, for example, can lead to life-long learning difficulties and poor health (childhood poverty.org).

 Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s goals for the field, all over the world are to change the, that today's poor children are often tomorrow's poor parents. Poverty can be passed on from generation to generation affecting the long-term health, wellbeing and productivity of families and of society as a whole.  CHIP says tackling childhood poverty is therefore critical for eradicating poverty and injustice world-wide (childhood poverty.org).

 Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s  (http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/),

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

I found that UNESCO’s Early Childhood Care and Education is first in pushing for health and the development of children all over the world. Their mission is to sustain early childhood, with the goal to build foundations, so that all young children develop their potential to the fullest. The issues related to international early childhood education for my professional goals would be their determination for life skills, values and to develop the groundwork for children to learn and grow.

UNESCO's Early Childhood Care and Education encourages teaching a child to be a good citizen, career skills to learn a trade and most of all education for every child in the world. UNESCO wants every child to learn about their culture, to know about value and respect for parents and teachers. Parents are the first teachers in a child’s life, so education will come from home to start with. If children are to learn about their future, they need to learn about their past as well.

 UNESCO’s “Early Childhood Care and Education” Retrieved from (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/)

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I found this site: Rand Corporation did a study to why economists, and other business and economic leaders have led the call to increase public investments in the early childhood field.

Their call is driven by research finding that underlines the importance of a strong foundation in early childhood (RAND, 2008). This was important to show that a range of early interventions can successfully, put children on the path toward positive development and preventing poor outcomes in adulthood. I found this shows, that early childhood programs will produce benefits and make up for their costs. The Rand Corporation shows how early childhood programs can produce government savings, that more than repay the costs and produce returns back to our society (RAND, 2008). This maybe a reason the government should explore reorganizing how early childhood care is delivered. If we invest in early childhood care this will produce better outcomes, save taxpayers money, and improve the quality of life for the people in whom we invest in

(RAND, 2008).

Save the Children’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Their 2013-2015 strategic plans, Invests in the impact for Children, builds upon our historic foundation of serving children, all children for nearly one hundred years. Save the Children’s mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve lasting change in their lives all around the world. This website gives me understanding of how justice and excellence can be served in early care education for all children (Save the Children).

I found that Head Start programs should not be for just low-income children and kids should not be on a waiting list, to be placed in Head Start regardless of income. The process of funding should be given to all children, immigrants, ELL children, because it should not matter, when it comes to children. Head Start provides quality education for lower-income, but this leaves the rest of children whose parent can’t afford quality childcare dangling. Families of immigrant children should have access to education, without any restrictions, for all young children deserve quality education, without a higher cost. Information on early childhood education should be given to read in different languages, about the services provided for children

(Matthews, & Ewen, 2010).

The RAND Corporation. (2008). What does economics tell us about early childhood policy?

Retrieved from

 http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2008/RAND_RB9352.pdf

                                            

Save the Children.

Retrieved from
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.8D6E/

                                            

Matthews, H., & Ewen, D. (2010). Early education programs and children of immigrants.

Retrieved from

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412205-early-education.pdf

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

 

The Global Children’s Initiative website sees a moral responsibility to give children everything they require to be happy and healthy. Global network works strong with all nations from the richest to the poorest. Imitating the U.S., they seek to advance their mission by, implementing research, public engagement and leadership. The Global Initiative development programs that are based in the science of child health, it appoints researchers, public leaders, practitioners, and students from a wide variety of institutions all around the world (Children’s, initiative 2010).

The global program information I have gained from these site focuses on three strategic areas:

They are changing the structure in health and development by educating the high-level decision-makers in learning about children beginning in the first years of life. 

The Global Children’s Initiative supports research projects that increase understanding about healthy development, how it can be getting back on the right path for helping children.

They focus on building leadership in people and their polices of institutions in low or middle class countries. They teach to enhance the number of diverse voices that contribute to the growing global market that helps young children (Children’s, initiative 2010).

Primarily in the majority of the world there are mental health concern issues that have significant consequences to health and development of children in society. The Global Children’s Initiative has an urgent need to identify the range of the problem within all across countries and to develop evidence-based approaches in policy and service delivery that are open to diverse cultural backgrounds. To confront this issue, a working group of Harvard staff are developing a program to research, education, and public commitment to important hole in knowledge across the countries of mental health issues (Children’s, initiative 2010).

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children's initiative. Retrieved from

 http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative