Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s

For this week's blog I looked into Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s (CHIP). There was a lot of information on this website that proved that this organization is researching, examining and informing families and individuals on families and children living in poverty. There are many ways in which this organization helps children living in poverty is by researching to deepen understanding of the causes of childhood poverty. They also examine economic and social factors to contribute to efforts of getting families away from poverty and informing effective ways to improve or end childhood poverty.

I learned so much from reviewing this website on childhood poverty. Did you know 600 million children worldwide live in poverty? Over 60 percent of households live on poverty lines. This hurts children the most. Children are the ones who have to bear the cost of poverty the most, psychically and emotionally. While looking at the photo gallery on this page, there were many pictures shown of what children had to do in some countries. Some of the pictures included kindergarten children eating flour noodles for lunch, or fetching water for their families, and small apartments that many families live in with one room. I have learned from this website and others that were used this week that millions of advocates have and will continue to fight to end childhood poverty.

CHIP tries to achieve change in poverty by:

• positive action at different levels
• positive change in a range of policy areas
• attention to policy implementation as well as content
• effectively using research findings
• targeting key fora and institutions/departments who make and influence policy

Below are some pictures that I wanted to include that I found with children and families living in poverty.

   

         
 Resources: Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centres. CHIP. UK Department for International Development, Save the Children and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre.
http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/index.php

Early Childhood Organization

This week I chose to share to you about the early childhood organization called PACE. This stands for Professional Association for Childhood Education. The website for this organization is http://www.pacenet.org/.

 

The main focus of this orgnanization is to provide resources and services to early childhood care and educating professionals. This is a non profit organization that has been around since 1955 in California. Members of this organization focus to enhance education for professionals, families and their children.

 

This quote was in the newsletter of the March issue on the PACE organization.

 

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

~ Benjamin Franklin

 

I believe that this is and always has been and always will be an issue in the early childhood field and the PACE organization. Teachers need to have the best knowledge and invest time and money to become a high quality teacher. This will not only serve the best interest of the child, but will help the family. The PACE organization focuses on this issues to promote the best possible way for teachers, families and children to get the education that is expected.

 

The thing that I mostly learned about looking at this organization, along with others this week is there are always resources and websites and other professionals there to enhance our knowledge on not only education, but everyday situations in the classroom. These organizations do primary focus on education and how to make it better, but throughout these websites there is so much information to get our brains going on early childhood.I believe if more states had programs such as PACE, this will help everyone to provide a high quality education from the start.   

 

 

Establishing Professional Contacts

Part 1- Week 1-

For this week's blog assignment I made connections with two countries. I chose South Africa and Asia for my two countries to learn more about. In South Africa, I contacted the OMEP South African National Committee, Mr. Eric Atmore. In Asia, I chose the Mongolian Foundation for Open Society Step by Step Program. I reached out to both committee in hopes to learning more about their work and the field of early childhood education. The issues and trends that are faced each day in education is global. I am looking forward to getting learn more about how they are the same and different in both South Africa and Asia. I don't know much information from other countries on the issues and trends in education. This blog assignment will teach me more about the diversity and similarities with these countries.

Part 2-
"We literally hold the future in our hands."
I chose the website of Center for the Child Care Workforce. The website is
http://www.ccw.org/. I believe this website is most important to me, more than the others because there is always ways to improve the education we give our children. The mission statement of this committee is to improve the quality of early care and education for all children. They promote policy, research and organizing to ensure the workforce is well-educated and being a voice in their workplace.
The CCW works to design a workforce into developing their own leadership and advocacy skills. The CCW looks to commit to the issues on the poilicies and practices that are developed in the field. The workforce believes high quality early education programs result in better higher order thinking and attention skills, better reading, writing and mathematical abilities and better social skills and more. This website provides educators and other professionals to remain informed and active with local, state and federal policies.

　

Resources:
Center for the Child Care Workforce. A Union of Professionals. http://www.ccw.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=54

South Africa

OMEP South African National Committee
The National Early Childhood Development Alliance
Email:cecd@iafrica.com
Mongolia
Mongolian Foundation for Open Society Step by Step Program
Narmandakh Adiya
Email: nmandah@soros.orh.mn