While the State of Vermont faces the same budget issues as the rest of the country, they are hearing strong advocacy for protecting early childhood investments from a surprising quarter: business leaders across the state.
The Blues Project is a 3-year intervention for low-income, high-risk mothers in Memphis. The goal of the Project is to reduce infant mortality and improve maternal and infant health.
Too often, children born into poverty spend the majority of their childhoods in poverty. But the recession is also leading to the growth of a second group of families – who fall into poverty for a shorter period of time.
As 2010 comes to a close, it is a good time to pause and reflect on the stack of reports released over the past year that comment on the well-being of children, and ask how these studies apply to Memphis, particularly in terms of what they can tell us about early childhood brain development, and
