Week 5

This week I sent an email to my international contact but have not yet heard back. While researching Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” website I found three new insights. I found that this initiative focuses on three main areas: early childhood development, child mental health, and children in crisis and conflict situations. The website discusses ways in which they will focus on early childhood development. “The first priority in this area is to adapt the successful work the Center has conducted in the United States for a broader range of strategically selected audiences, in an effort to energize and reframe the global dialogue around investments in the earliest years of life” (Center on the Developing Child, 2014). The other main area, child mental health, discusses assessing and evaluating the mental health of children. The Children and Crisis goal is to “foster interdisciplinary collaboration that incorporates a science-based, developmental perspective into the assessment and management of child well-being in a range of natural and man-made crises, focusing on both immediate circumstances and long-term adaptation” (Center on the Developing Child, 2014).