Building the brain from the beginning. By the time a child turns 3, his brain is 85% the volume of an adult brain. That means that nearly all of the neural connections that will ever form have already been set. These three…
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Smart Starts: School Readiness Begins at Birth
Tagged with: ACEs, brain development, infant mental health, kindegarten, preschool, toxic stress
Posted in Early Childhood
Posted in Early Childhood
Keeping Adverse Childhood Experiences at the center of prevention efforts
At Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, we talk a lot about prevention. How do you keep kids out of the child welfare system? Prevention. How do you curb the drop out rate and encourage success in school among kids at…
Tagged with: ACEs, adverse childhood experiences, Child Abuse Prevention, PIWI, prevent chlid abuse nebraska
Posted in Cradle to career
Posted in Cradle to career
Growing the Good Life 