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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Family & Caregiver Partnerships--Infants & Toddlers | In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel discuss the importance of building a strong partnership between families and your child care program to benefit infants and toddlers ongoing development. We will include strategies for building relationships. | Podcast |
| Farm to Early Childhood Programs: A Step-By-Step Guide | Farm to Early Childhood Programs have evolved from the strong national Farm to School movement as a way of providing fresh, local foods in meal programs that serve the youngest children. Farm to Early Childcare and Farm to Preschool programs focus on purchasing and using fresh, local foods at program sites to promote the development of healthy eating patterns in children from birth to age six. These programs also involve children’s gardens, educational activities related to local food and agriculture, and opportunities for building community partnerships. | Document |
| Fostering Healthy Social & Emotional Development in Young Children - Tips for Early Childhood Teachers and Providers | "Social and emotional development involves several interrelated areas of development, including social interaction, emotional awareness, and self-regulation.” Here is a helpful PDF from the U.S. Department of Education. | Document |
| Getting In Tune Creating Nurturing Relationships With Infants And Toddlers | This video from the Far West Laboratory Center for Child and Family Studies highlights the importance of getting in tune with infants and toddlers. | |
| Habilidades de Comunicación para Bebés y Niños Pequeños: La Construcción de Relaciones (Infant and Toddler Communication Skills: Building Relationships) | Esta hoja de consejos explora la importancia de las relaciones para apoyar el desarrollo de habilidades de comunicación en bebés y niños pequeños. This tip sheet explores the importance of relationships in supporting infant and toddler development of communication skills. | Tipsheet |
| 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 |
| 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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