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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
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Hands On As We Grow | Resources to Find Lots of Activities for Kids | Website |
Head Start's Mental Health Tool for Infants | Sometimes an adult (parent/caregiver/early childhood educator) has a temperament that is vastly different from that of a young child. How do you bridge the gap and foster a loving, supportive relationship? Find out how the Interactive Infant Temperament Tool can help. | Website |
Head Start's Mental Health Tool for Toddlers | Sometimes an adult (parent/caregiver/early childhood educator) has a temperament that is vastly different from that of a young child. How do you bridge the gap and foster a loving, supportive relationship? Find out how the Interactive Toddler Temperament Tool can help. | Website |
Healthy From the Start: How Feeding Nurtures Your Young Child's Body, Heart and Mind | This guide offers parents information on how feeding skills unfold over the first three years. Explores how feeding is much more than about food—it is a chance to bond with children and nurture their social-emotional skills. Provides strategies for dealing with “picky eaters” as well. | Document |
Healthy Gender Development and Young Children | Healthy Gender Development and Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Programs and Professionals offers practical guidance for teachers, caregivers, parents and staff. It draws on decades of research on child and gender development, and experiences of early childhood educators, pediatricians, and mental health professionals. | Document |
Help Your Baby Sleep Safely So You Can Sleep Soundly | From the American Academy of Pediatrics, "few things make you value sleep more than when you have a new baby. (We're parents, too. We understand.) We can't promise you more sleep, but we can offer you this―less worry and deeper sleep because you know your baby is sleeping safely." | Website |
Helping Infants and Toddlers Adjust to Divorce | When working with young children and their families, early care and education professionals sometimes find themselves in the position of helping children cope and work through changes in their family systems. One such change that undoubtedly has an effect on young children is divorce. | Document |
Helping Toddlers Understand Emotion | The strategy of helping toddlers understand emotion may reduce behavioral problems later on, finds a federally funded study led by a Michigan State University researcher. The study, published in the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, could ultimately help those most in need. Toddlers with higher risk, specifically those with more behavioral problems and from the most disadvantaged families, benefited most from being taught about emotion by their mothers. | Document |
Helping Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Policies and Strategies for Early Care and Education | Early childhood trauma occurs when a young child experiences an event that causes actual harm or poses a serious threat to the child's emotional and physical well-being. These events range from experiencing abuse and neglect to having a parent with substance abuse issues or being separated from a parent. Trauma is different from regular life stressors because it causes a sense of intense fear, terror, and helplessness that is beyond the normal range for typical experiences. | Document |
High-Quality Infant/Toddler Educators Need Good Training | This white paper examines the learning and social-emotional needs of infants and toddlers and the training requirements and needs of the early childhood professionals who educate and care for them. | Document |
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