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National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum demands justice for immigrant families

04/18/16
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in the challenge to President Obama’s expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Legal Permanent Residents (DAPA) programs. At issue is whether President Obama’s actions exceeded his...
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Miriam Yeung
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Who helps the helper? #InsideOut: Why attending to Secondary Traumatic Stress is an imperative for Early Learning Programs

04/18/16
“Who helps the helper?” In a new documentary, Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion and their Pain , this poignant question is posed by an early childhood educator. Over the last decade a plethora of research has emerged demonstrating that exposure to trauma and violence in early...
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Leslie Lieberman
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities: Creating a just, healthy and resilient world

04/18/16
Community networks organized around ACEs and resilience, like those participating in MARC, provide a ready vehicle for concerned moms (and non-moms) to join the movement to end childhood trauma and to create a just, healthy and resilient world.
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Supporting Social and Emotional Learning through Every Student Succeeds Act

04/18/16
A core component of a healthy school environment is supporting social and emotional learning. Social and emotional learning includes knowledge and skills such as understanding and managing emotions, setting and achieving positive goals, feeling and showing empathy for others and making responsible...
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Alexandra Mays
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

The ABCs of ACEs #InsideOut

04/18/16
Underlying the buzzwords “social emotional health” and “trauma-informed care” is some astounding new knowledge that will knock your socks off if you haven’t heard about it. And once you grok it, it will change your entire outlook on why humans behave the way they do, including kids. This new...
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Jane Stevens
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

My #InsideOut Story: How Social and Emotional Learning Made a Difference for My Kids

04/18/16
As a mother of two, including one with special needs and a birth defect, I have seen first-hand how parents, children and society all win when families have access to high-quality affordable childcare, early learning programs, and mental health programs that take children’s social and emotional...
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Sheila Arias
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

Courageous Conversations: How Moms and Families Can Have an Impact on Social Emotional Development through an Anti-Bias Approach

04/18/16
Moms don’t need much convincing: we know that the early childhood years are critically important in setting the stage for all that life has to bring, and the ways that children learn how to respond and react. Young children’s social and emotional development - that is, how they learn to relate to...
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Lindsey Allard Agnamba
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

Babies’ Mental Health Matters

04/18/16
When we hear about a person’s mental health, it’s often in the context of a problem – a colleague is struggling to handle stress at work, a friend’s child is having behavioral problems at school, or a family member has received a diagnosis. And almost always, these discussions are limited to older...
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Matthew Melmed
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

Early experiences, lasting consequences

04/18/16
I recently traveled to East Tennessee, up in the Appalachians, and the green and mountainous beauty all around really struck me. At the same time, I heard how difficult life there can be, especially for the adorable elementary-school children I was meeting. My local colleagues shared with me a wide...
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Sarah Wakeen
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

Social and Emotional Learning for Bilingual Students

04/18/16
As the founder, and current Director of Admissions, of Escuela Bilingüe Internacional, a pre-kinder through 8th grade school in Oakland, California, I am frequently asked by worried, monolingual, English-speaking parents if their child will suffer emotional stress by being immersed in the Spanish...
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Liza Sánchez

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