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A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, shows that caregiving programs are five times more effective than nutrition programs in supporting smarter, not just taller, children in low- and middle-income countries.
Global health programs typically focus on preventing stunting, when children are not growing in height the way they should for their age. Stunted growth has also been associated with lower than average school achievement and cognitive scores.
Beth, a student of linguistics and psychology, brought a fresh perspective to the field of nutrition. While she did not consider herself a nutrition scientist, her diverse background enriched the research she conducted and the methodologies she employed, allowing her to view issues differently from those primarily trained in nutrition and public health.
Beth prioritized kindness and relationships, possessing a natural gift for making everyone around her feel comfortable. Even during the final days of her illness, she continued mentoring her students, guiding them through their research plans and dissertations.
Like a vine, children need nurturing care and strong support structures to ensure their healthy growth and development to their full potential. Parents and caregivers are the gardeners that tend and nurture the vine so that it can grow and flourish. Policies and programs, from the national to community level, are the trellis that supports the vine to grow.
Dr. Prado's research focuses on nutrition and child development. Her research interests also include caregiving, health and other influences on child development in low-resource settings, evaluating programs and policies to support children to achieve their developmental potential, and cross-cultural developmental and cognitive assessment. She directs the Translational Research in Early Life Learning for Impact at Scale (TRELLIS) lab. Like a vine, children need nurturing care and strong support structures to ensure their healthy growth and development to their full potential. Parents and caregivers are the gardeners that tend and nurture the vine so that it can grow and flourish. Policies and programs, from the national to community level, are the trellis that supports the vine to grow. At the TRELLIS lab, we work with collaborators from across the globe to conduct research informing how policies and programs can best support parents and caregivers to provide the nurturing care that children need to thrive. Research approaches include efficacy, effectiveness and impact evaluations, longitudinal cohort studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and methodological studies and reviews on assessing child development and cognition in low-income contexts.
Prado, E. L., Abbeddou, S., Yakes Jimenez, E., Som, J. W., Oudraogo, Z. P., Vosti, S. A., et al. (2016). Lipid-based nutrient supplements plus malaria and diarrhea treatment increase infant development scores in a cluster-randomized trial in Burkina Faso. Journal of Nutrition. (Epub ahead of print).
Considerations of cost, cost-effectiveness, and financial feasibility should inform policy discussions about incorporating SQ-LNS into strategies to improve child nutrition, survival and development. This webinar will report results of 4 studies of cost-effectiveness or cost-efficiency of interventions that included SQ-LNS for young children. The first presentation will describe a modeling framework to estimate the cost and cost-effectiveness of SQ-LNS, and the results of that framework when applied in the context of SQ-LNS delivery via community health workers in rural Uganda. The second presentation will describe cost-effectiveness estimates for a pilot project implemented via the government community-based nutrition program in Madagascar. The third presentation will report cost-efficiency results from effectiveness trials implemented using a community-based platform in Mali and a facility-based platform in Burkina Faso. The fourth presentation will report findings from a model related to the potential for cost-effectiveness of SQ-LNS within an integrated package of maternal and pediatric preventive and curative interventions in rural Niger.
This seminar series is being organized jointly by the Development Research Group, the Office of the Chief Economist for Human Development, the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, and the Institute for Global Nutrition, University of California, Davis.
Several local child care programs have taken the necessary steps to improve their nutrition and physical activity environment, policies, and practices. Siouxland District Health Department provided technical assistance to Apple Tree Preschool and Learning Center in Morningside, Native American Child Care Center, Mary Elizabeth Child Care Center, Crittenton Center Child Development Program, Angel House Child Care, Building Blocks Preschool and Child Care Center in Sioux City and in Sergeant Bluff, and Story Time Preschool & Child Care Center on Morningside Ave and on South Cecelia in Sioux City. All centers completed a self-assessment process, developed action plans, provided workshops on physical activity, childhood obesity, and nutrition to staff, and completed a reassessment. All centers have made great strides to improve their environment for the betterment of the children they serve. Apple Tree Preschool and Learning CenterDownload PDFBuilding Blocks Preschool & Child Care, Sioux CityDownload PDFLittle Lambs Preschool & Child Care, Sergeant Bluff
I am the bridge between the Nutrition Education Program and WIC. I work as a nutritionist four days a week in the classroom teaching SNAP-Ed to children from 2nd grade to 4th and providing nutrition education with food tastings prepared in our small kitchen. I also visit food pantries and provide food tastings, handouts easy to make recipes and provide healthy option cards for different pantries. Every Tuesday I act as a WIC nutritionist providing nutrition education and counseling for pregnant and lactating moms.
I was looking for jobs in nutrition and found CAP and the opportunity to work in the classroom with children and work with pregnant and lactating mothers was of great interest to me as I love children and supporting their development. I was excited to hear about all the other services CAP provides and knew I wanted to be a part of the company.
The staff is so kind and respectful and there is a desire to learn from each other. Also working along many other services that CAP offers is really uplifting and the network we have allows us to easily refer clients to different services we provide.
The word hope resonates with me. We provide a beacon of hope for these people by the services we provide and how we talk and treat our participants and clients. CAP works to reduce poverty and our services allow clients and participants to move forward and have more time and money forward in ways that will help one move out of poverty.
I have learned to never give up. Some of those that I have served are living in tough situations and they inspire me with their strength. It is a reminder for me to be strong and that pursuing help is important and the role I play as an educator in the classroom and as a nutritionist can greatly affect their lives.
Elizabeth Beavers is an Oklahoma native who dedicated many years of service to child nutrition in both Oklahoma and Texas. Her double major in home economics and business gave her a solid base on which to build a long and highly rewarding career.
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MISSION: Optimize the health, development, education, and well-being of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers through a family-driven, equitable, community-based system of high-quality prenatal and early childhood programs and services.
Cotillion Sneddy was raised in Crownpoint, New Mexico in the eastern region of the Navajo Nation and comes from the Water-Flows Together people and born for the Start-of-the-Red-Streak people. She brings twenty-four years of experience in early childhood to the position, ranging from roles as a teacher assistant and home visitor in Head Start, a supervisor of student/teacher programs at the University of New Mexico, director of early childhood programs and operations in Tlicho, in the Canadian Northwest Territories, Early Literacy coordinator/coach, and most recently, teaching early childhood classes for Northland Pioneer College. She has also served on the Navajo Nation First Things First Regional Council.
The position of Assistant Secretary of Native American Early Education and Care, is mandated by the legislation establishing ECECD as a cabinet-level government agency with the goal of ensuring that early education and care in Native American communities is represented at the very top of the leadership structure. ECECD is the first and only state early childhood education department to create this type of position.
The core challenge our proposal seeks to address is how to ensure that every American family and child has access to and can benefit from high-quality, affordable ECE services in the years before kindergarten entry. Our objective is to set out a vision for increased public funding for ECE to ensure that adequate resources are invested in this period of life; doing so will aid in the fight against the reproduction of intergenerational inequities (Elango et al. 2016; Johnson and Jackson 2019) and ensure that all American children have the opportunity to reach their potential.
For a good or service where all benefits and costs of a transaction flow to only the buyer and the seller, and if neither party faces credit constraints or information problems discerning quality and there are no spillovers on others, market prices allocate resources efficiently. Where those conditions do not hold, as in ECE, market prices alone do not allocate efficiently and well-tailored policies might help to do so. Market failures in ECE occur due in three primary ways: spillovers, difficulty judging quality, and severe credit constraints on young families.
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