Provider Resources on Early Brain and Child Development

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Provider Resources

 

• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health toolkit
  The AAP Council on Early Childhood in partnership with Zero to Three have compiled a selection of resources that are infant mental health informed, high quality, from highly respected organizations, and available for free online. The resources are organized by targeted audience, i.e., medical providers, parents/caregivers, and child-friendly.
  
• Full toolkit
  
• Medical Provider Resources
  
• Parent/Caregiver Resources 
  
• Child Friendly
  
• AAP Resources
• Bright Futures
• Connected Kids
• Early Brain and Child Development (Zero to Three Journal)
  
• Head Start National Center on Health
• Healthy Child Care America
  (includes information on Building Bridges Program and Resources)
• Healthy Foster Care America
  
• Literacy Toolkit
• Section on Child Abuse and Neglect
  
• Trauma Guide
• Toxic Stress Video (Annual Leadership Forum, 2013)
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Studies: Shows the associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being (CDC)
• Spokane Study on ACEs exposure in elementary aged children
• ACEs Connection: A community of practice network, using trauma-informed practices to prevent ACEs & further trauma, and to increase resilience.
• Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health: Advances the effective use of public data on the status of children’s health and health-related services for children, youth and families in the United States.
• Addressing and Preventing ACEs: Hear from leading experts (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
  
• The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative (Norlien Foundation)
• The Center for Early Literacy Learning
• Center on the Developing Child
• Tackling Toxic Stress
• Science of Early Childhood
• Three Core Concepts in Early Development: This 3-part video series provides a better understanding of how early experiences are built into our bodies and brains.
• In Brief Series: This series offers short summaries of essential findings from recent scientific publications and presentations 
• The Foundations of Lifelong Health
• The Science of Early Childhood Development
• The Impact of Early Adversity on Children's Development
• Early Childhood Program Effectiveness
  

• The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
  Translating Developmental Science Into Healthy Lives
  Video presentation  |   Powerpoint presentation
• Articles
• Routine vs. Catastrophic Influences on the Developing Child - Long-term effects of adversity on children and how to buffer the effects of toxic stressors
  
• Paying Later: The high costs of failing to invest in young children (Issue Brief from The Pew Center on the States)
• Child and Adult Outcomes of Chronic Child Maltreatment (Pediatrics, May 2012)
• Early childhood stimulation benefits adult competence and reduces violent behavior (Pediatrics, May 2011) 
• A new science of early childhood reveals urgency of protecting developing brains (AAP News, January 2012)
• The science of success (The Atlantic, December 2009)
• Salivary Cortisol Mediates Effects of Poverty and Parenting on Executive Functions in Early Childhood (National Institute of Health, 2012)
• Structural variations in prefrontal cortex mediate the relationship between early childhood stress and spatial working memory (The Journal of Neuroscience, June 6, 2012)
• The impact of ACEs on an urban pediatric population (Child Abuse & Neglect, 2011)
• Home Visiting (July 2012)
• A Poverty Solution that Starts with a Hug (Nicholas Kristoff, NY Times)
• The Kids Are (Not) All Right (Charles M. Blow, NY Times)
• Brochures/Handouts
• 5 Rs of Early Education
  
• Helping Foster and Adoptive Families Cope with Trauma
• Partnering with Parents: Apps for Raising Happy, Healthy Children
• Toxic Stress Interventions/Models
• SEEK
• VIP
• Family-Nurse Partnerships
• Toxic Stress Treatments
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
• Child-Parent Psychotherapy
• Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Other Helpful Resources
• Zero to Three (National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families)
  Little Kids, Big Questions Podcast series
  Your Child’s Development- a series of age-based handouts
  Healthy Minds
  Nurturing Social-Emotional Development
  Baby Brain Map
  Everyday Ways to Support Your Child’s Learning
  Brain FAQs
  Supporting Early Brain Development
• The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative (Norlien Foundation)
• The Center for Early Literacy Learning
• Circle of Security International
  (early intervention program for parents and children)
• Parents as Teachers
  (home visitation model)
• Promoting First Relationships
  (training program to promote children’s social-emotional development)
• Docs for Tots
  (promotes practices, policies and investments in children from prenatal to age five that foster children’s healthy development and future success)
  

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