Sharing Web Resources

The organization that I am studying about is, the National Black Child Development Institute. It works to support and promote the development of evidence based programs designed specifically to engage, educate, and empower parents and communities of color. The program and the policy supports federal, state, and local efforts to provide an increasing number of low income children with access to quality early education and care; efforts to create strong and supported early childhood workforce and efforts to promote developmentally and culturally appropriate standards, curriculum, instruction and assessment that is aligned with the correct curriculum. The programs and activities include: TEACH, and many other programs around the country. The institute is committed to addressing multiple aspects of the child welfare system with a focus on family engagement. It is also important that you prioritize conversations about race, culture, class, and gender in the context of family engagement. It is critical for us to make important decisions about engaging with family and community members in ways that demonstrate a deeper and more complete understanding of the Early Childhood field.

Getting to know your International Contacts

I have made some contacts, but I was redirected to other people so I am still waiting on a reply. I researched the countries and their poverty issues and I found some interesting details. The poverty line in Australia is based on a factor that Australia is a developed nation. The notion of poverty is significantly different than the Third World Country. The families who has an income lower than other families in Australia are considered poor. Most of the students of Australia fall below the poverty line. The other groups of people who live under the poverty line of Australia are the aboriginals. The Smith Family Report of 2001 has given a statistics on Australia poverty line which is: 14.9% children of Australia are poor, total percentages of Australians who live in poverty are 13%. percentages of single parent families who live in poverty is 21.8%. In 2008-09, the UK had 13 1/2 million people living who were living below the low-income threshold. This is around a fifth (22%) of the population, the number of children living in low-income households was 3.9 million in 2008/2009. The government short term goal was that child poverty be reduced to the number of children in low-income households by a quarter.

My Organization....to RESEARCH......National Black Child Development Institute

The organization I chose is, National Black Child Development Institute. The website is www.nbcdi.org. It is one of the only national organization that is dedicated exclusively to the success and well-begin of Black Children, the National Black Child Development Institute and our network of Affiliates have been a powerful and effective voice on issues related to the education, care, and health of Black children and their families. NBCDI supports and works primarily with Black children birth through age 8 and their families through coalition building with community based organizations, foundations, and corporations, school systems, elected officials, government, child care, Head Start and many other public and private partnership. The organization has an upcoming conference coming up, it is called the "Bright Past, Better Future: Remember and Rise Up!" It is the 44th Annual Conference and it will be held October 11-14, 2014 in Detroit, MI. I am looking forward to finding out more about this organization, it seems to be interesting and different.

Professional Contacts: In Country and Outside the Country

This has been a busy week and a little frustrating on deciding which organizations I wanted to contact. I decided on Australia and the UK. I emailed both parties, and I am awaiting a reply. I am hoping to hear from them, because I am interested in how the Early Childhood Field is flowing in their countries. The website I decided to study and research over the next few weeks is the National Black Child Development Institute. I have skimmed the website and it appears to be an attractive website and it has a lot of vital information. I will be updating everyone on my finding.