Sharing Web Resources

          The website that I have been studying is ZERO TO THREE.  The website offers many outside links to explore, such as the Early HeadStart link.  The link leads to the website titled, "Early Head Start National Resource Center."  There are online lessons, CSPC Guide to New Crib Standards, and material for Federal Staff (Early Head Start National Resource Center, n.d.).  There is another outside link to the National Training Institute.  There is information offered about multiple training opportunitites for early childhood professionals.  The website also presents the sponsors that support the NTI, as well as an FAQ section and a Hotel and Travel section (National Training Institute, 2013).  A third outside link that is offered is the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home, Visiting Technical Assistance.  This websites main points are: to strengthen evaluations of promising programs, developing and adapting data systems to facilitate tracking and reporting on Federal benchmarks, and implementing quality improvement systems ( Health Resources and Services Administration, n.d.). 
          The area that I chose to thoroughly explore on the website was the section titled, "Maltreatment."    This section includes resources for early childhood professionals and families to use to help young children and their families when they have been impacted by maltreatment, violence, loss, or disaster.  One of the subsections is child abuse and neglect.  If young children that have been victim to maltreatment are helped properly when they are still young, the children are able to return to their healthy development process and can be restored.  This section offers subcategories, such as "Reports Highlight Impact of Maltreatment on the Youngest Children."  The next subsection is "The Safe Babies Court Teams Project."  The opening statement says everything that is needed to be known, "Every 7 minutes an infant or toddler is removed from their home due to alleged abuse or neglect."  The section offers resources and information about how to help with this problem.  The last subsection is "Impact of Trauma."  Children are affected alot by the events that go on around them, more than people think.  Parents and caregivers are some of the most important people in a child's life when they are affected by trauma.  When sensitive and responsive care is given, healing can begin for the child and all included. 
          I receive an e-newsletter, titled "Resource Round-up"  It offers resources for the early childhood professionals.  The full title is "Resource Roundup: Babies never stop growing and neither should you."  Some of the articles offered in the enewsletter are "Sharing the Care: Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect."  Neither the e-newsletter or the website currently offers any information about equity and excellence in the early care and education.  However an insight that I did gain about what I learned today is that more children receive maltreatment when they are young and most of the time infants than I initially thought.  This is such a sad fact, however I think that we are headed in the right direction.  The early childhood field is making great progress and I am proud to say that I am a part of it!

References

 

Early Head Start National Resource Center. (n.d.) Retrieved from www.ehsnrc.org.

 

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Assistance.  Retrieved from http://mchb.hrsa.gov

 

National Training Institute. (2013). Retrieving from www.regonline.com

 

ZERO TO THREE. (2012). Retrieved from www.zerotothree.org