- Un Buen Comenzo, "A Good Start, is a project in Santiago, Chile that is dedicated to improving quality education by offering teachers training and development opportunities. The programs focus on language development, socioemotional development, health and family involvement for 4-6 year old. UBC uses a comprehensive evaluation that will experiment in all 60 schools that will eventually become a part of UBC. These efforts will put Chile ahead of other Latin American countries in providing high quality education.
- New activities are being developed in the areas of early childhood development, mental health and children in crisis and conflict situations. In the area of early childhood development, the goals are to introduce the work done in the U.S. to a broader audience and to apply new knowledge about health and developmental needs of young children in various settings. The child mental health goal is to develop a focus group to identify and develop approaches in policy and service delivery that are diversely responsive to cultures. The children and crisis goal is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration that incorporates a science based developmental perspective into the well being of children in various crisis.
- Millennium Development Goals-In 2000, governments of the world created a set of international goals to be achieved by the year 2015. These goals included ending extreme hunger, ensuring completion of a least a primary education by every child, and reducing child mortality by two thirds. Progress has been made to meet these goals, worldwide, but a lot of work needs to still be done in order to meet the deadline.
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/gobal_initiative/
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