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TAC Bulletin - March 2015 - Issue 154

Editor Peter Limbrick

About this Bulletin

  1. Pregnant? Working in a children's organisation? Here is how to help managers write an up-to-date health & safety policy about EMR
  2. No Quality without Equality - International Conference on Diversity, Equality, and Social Justice in Early Childhood, June 2015 in Birmingham UK
  3. Deafblind Studies Learning Opportunities 2015
  4. Young Child Expo & Conference in October, 2015 in Spokane, Washington, US
  5. Europe in Action conference, Rome, Italy, May 2015 - families & self advocacy
  6. 9th BASPCAN Congress 2015, New Directions in Child Protection and Wellbeing, April 2015, Edinburgh UK
  7. NEW conferences and courses on mental health, transitions, challenging behaviour, gender, schools and more
  8. Do you know which therapeutic media are chosen the most by children? Answer here from Play Therapy UK
  9. How can schools start to implement the SEND reforms? UK
  10. COFACE conference - Accessible and fair financial services: alternatives to mainstream banking, May 2015 in Madrid, Spain
  11. Female Genital Mutilation campaigns by Barnardos (UK) and Plan 'Because I am a girl'
  12. SEND Reforms and SLCN: Good practice to support children and families - NAPLIC Conference, Warwick, UK, May 2015

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Financing Investments in Young Children Globally: Workshop Summary

On August 26–27, 2014, the Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally hosted its second workshop, in New Delhi, India. The forum's first workshop, titled "The Cost of Inaction," was held in Washington, DC, in April 2014 and focused on the science of promoting optimal development through investing in young children and the potential eco­nomic consequences of inaction. This second workshop, on financing investments for young children, built on the first workshop and brought together stakeholders from such disciplines as social protection, nutrition, education, health, finance, economics, and law and included practitioners, advocates, researchers, and policy makers.

Visit: http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2015/Financing-Investments-Young-Children-Globally.aspx?utm_source=IOM+Email+List&utm_campaign=cea4532e0d-3_6_15_New_Workshop_Summary_iycg&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_211686812e-cea4532e0d-180283697

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Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience

From the Center on the Developing Child: Decades of research in the behavioral and social sciences have produced substantial evidence that children who do well despite serious hardship have had at least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive parent, caregiver, or other adult. These relationships buffer children from developmental disruption and help them build key capacities, such as the ability to adapt, that enable them to respond to adversity and thrive.

The combination of supportive relationships, adaptive skill-building, and positive experiences constitute the foundation of what is commonly called resilience. This Working Paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child explains how protective factors in the social environment and highly responsive biological systems interact to produce resilience, and discusses strategies that promote healthy development in the face of significant adversity.

Visit: http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/reports_and_working_papers/working_papers/wp13/

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The Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation: Early Findings on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program – A Report to Congress

'The Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation: Early Findings on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program - A Report to Congress' presents the first findings from the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), the legislatively mandated national evaluation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program (MIECHV or the Home Visiting Program).

The report includes an analysis of the states' needs assessments, as well as baseline characteristics of families, staff, local programs, and models participating in the study. The information in this report provides a foundation for understanding the implementation and impacts of MIECHV-funded home visiting programs. Later reports will explore the local and national implementation of those programs, and their effects on families with young children.

Visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/resource/the-mother-and-infant-home-visiting-program-evaluation-early-findings-on-the-maternal-infant-and-early-childhood-home-visiting

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