Week 5 Blog/ The Center on the Developing Child

I had to do the alternative assignment which was to browse around on the website for The Center on the Developing Child. One insight that I learned on the site was the Global Child Development initiative. The center works with policy makers, civil leaders, and scholars on ways for them to adapt their model for putting in place effective policies and programs that will ultimately benefit the community as a whole. The center also launched a network in 2008 that addressed the gap between what is known about mental health and what is done about mental health. The goal of the network was to generate, integrate, communicate, and then apply the science to inform and make advances in mental health. The last insight from the website was the many opportunities students at Harvard have to learn all about early childhood and the development of the young child. The center set up the Education and Leadership program so that students and faculty can tap into the different aspects of the field and see how science links to the policies that are made and the action that is taken.

The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard university has many interesting topics to read up on and I can see how it will and can help the students who are interested in Early childhood.

Reference:
Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative." Retrieved from: website (http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/