Early Childhood Resources

 

 

Please feel Free to use these resources for your personal curiosity or professional development! 

• Article: UNICEF (n.d.). Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf

• Websites:

• • World Forum Foundation
    http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/about-us
    This link connects you to the mission statement of this organization. Make sure to watch the media segment on this webpage

  • World Organization for Early Childhood Education
    http://www.omep-usnc.org/
    Read about OMEP's mission.

  • Association for Childhood Education International
    http://acei.org/
    Click on "Mission/Vision" and "Guiding Principles and Beliefs" and read these statements.

National Association for the Education of Young Children

• http://www.naeyc.org/ The Division for Early Childhood

• http://www.dec-sped.org/ Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families

• http://www.zerotothree.org/ WESTED

• http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm Harvard Education Letter

• http://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85 FPG Child Development Institute

• http://www.fpg.unc.edu/ Administration for Children and Families Headstart's National Research Conference

• http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/ HighScope

• http://www.highscope.org/ Children's Defense Fund

• http://www.childrensdefense.org/       (This website is one of my personal favorites!)

• Center for Child Care Workforce

• http://www.ccw.org/ Council for Exceptional Children

• http://www.cec.sped.org/ Institute for Women's Policy Research

• http://www.iwpr.org/ National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education

• http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/ National Child Care Association

• http://www.nccanet.org/ National Institute for Early Education Research

• http://nieer.org/ Pre[K]Now

• http://www.pewstates.org/projects/pre-k-now-328067 Voices for America's Children

• http://www.voices.org/ The Erikson Institute

• http://www.erikson.edu/

Additional Resources:

http://www.ecresourcecenter.org/

Resources from Cornell University:

Cornell Early Childhood Program (CECP)
www.human.cornell.edu/HD/CECP/index.cfm

CECP integrates applied research with teaching and extension outreach in ways to promote greater understanding of young children and their families as well as policies and practices that enhance child development. Activities focus on early development, care and education of children from low-income families as universal family and community needs; family support in the child care context; integration of strategies; and international exchange and comparison in the early childhood arena.

CECP's on-line resources include fact sheets on finding childcare, research summaries, program reports, conference presentations, links to trusted websites for information on early childhood, and much more.

Parenting in Context
www.parenting.cit.cornell.edu/index.html

The Parenting in Context Initiative in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management focuses on integrating extension and research activities in the area of parenting education.

This project provides a wealth of on-line resources for educators including research briefs on relevant topics, guides for conducting program evaluations, archived webcasts, handouts from Parent Education Inservice trainings, a listing of trusted websites for parenting information, and summaries of research in conjunction with parenting related events at Cornell or in the national news.

Children, Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR)
www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/family/cyfar/cyfar.html 

The CYFAR Program provides community-based programs for at-risk children and their families through collaboration of the Land-Grant and Cooperative Extension Systems. CYFAR's on-line resources include information on the national CYFAR conference, state and community program data, and extensive publications and program materials available through CYFERnet.

Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network (CYFERnet)
www.cyfernet.org/

CYFERnet's website brings together the children, youth and family resources of the public land-grant universities, providing a source of reliable, high quality, research-based publications and program materials. 

eXtension Parenting Community of Practice (CoP)
http://www.extension.org/parenting

The Parenting Community of Practice features articles and activities, a resource area, and "Answers from our Experts" sections that may be helpful to parent educators and families. eXtension is an educational partnership of 74 universities in the United States and provides objective, research-based information in an interactive learning environment.

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