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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Niños que experimentan estrés (Children Experiencing Stress) | Esta hoja de consejos brinda información sobre factores estresantes comunes para los niños y estrategias para que los cuidadores ayuden a disminuir el estrés y promuevan una sensación de bienestar para todos los niños.This tip sheet provides information on common stressors for children and strategies for caregivers to help decrease stress and promote a sense of well-being for all children. | Tipsheet |
| Not Just “Soft Skills”: How Young Children’s Learning & Health Benefit from Strong Social-Emotional Development | This paper synthesizes the research on social emotional development in early childhood, and underscores the need for a new national dialogue on this topic. It also outlines how we might better support parents and caregivers so they can contribute to the healthy social-emotional development of their children. | Document |
| Not Too Young to Grieve - The Needs of Young Children | This PowerPoint presentation is created by the Childhood Bereavement Network. | Document |
| Oral Health | Tooth decay is the most common childhood disease, but it's preventable. Children with dental pain can have trouble speaking clearly, eating, and learning. Use the resources below to promote a healthy mouth. Learn about proper toothbrushing and other preventive measures and how to find a dentist. This resource is from the Head Start Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC). | |
| Part 1: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Routine Separations and Reunions | Listen as former CICC Coaching Manager, author, and Early Childhood Advocate Beth Menninga joins Inclusion Matters and shares key practices to support our youngest learners through common daily separations and reunions. | Podcast |
| Part 2: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Extended Separations and Reunions | In this second part of our discussion, former CICC Coaching Manager, author, and Early Childhood Advocate Beth Menninga returns to share insights on extended separations and reunions with infants and toddlers. We discuss military deployment, divorce/break up or split households, work travel, incarceration, foster care, hospitalization, immigration related separations, teacher leaves, and change of classroom or care setting. | Podcast |
| PATHWAYS OF EXPOSURE TO POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CHEMICALS | During the 2009 legislative session, the Toxic Free Kids Act was passed and signed into law by the governor. This legislation requires the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to create two lists of chemicals: one list called “Chemicals of High Concern” and one called “Priority Chemicals.”The Toxic Free Kids (TFK) program is housed in the Environmental Surveillance and Assessment Section within the Environmental Health Division and supports the MDH mission to protect, maintain, and improve the health of all Minnesotans.The Toxic Free Kids program has created a brief factsheet explaining toxic chemical exposures. It is available in English, Hmong, Somali, and Spanish. | |
| Planning for the Transition to Kindergarten: Why it Matters and how to Support Success | The transition to kindergarten is a time that presents changing demands, expectations, and supports for children and their families. When children experience discontinuities between preschool and kindergarten, they may be at greater risk for academic failure and social adjustment problems. Thus, building and implementing a seamless kindergarten transition can make a significant difference for children's early education experience. | Document |
| Play in Early Childhood: The Role of Play in Any Setting | In this video from the Center of the Developing Child at Harvard University, "learn more about how play can foster children’s resilience to hardship, and how the complex interactions involved when children play help build their brains." | |
| Play in Kindergarten - MN Department of Education | Lifelong learning begins with play. Play uses exploration, imagination, and inquiry to develop cognitive and social-emotional skills and the confidence to engage in new experiences. Play is a valuable and evidence-based teaching practice for all early learning environments, including kindergarten and beyond. | Document |
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