WK5 CNT

Learning Resources

Required Resources

• Course Text: Child, Family, School, Community: Socialization and Support
• • Chapter 10, "Ecology of the Community" (pp. 334–367)
• Web Sites:
  

• • Sticking Up for Early Childhood Programs
    http://sparkaction.org/node/332

  • Early Childhood Advocacy Toolkit
    http://www.state.ia.us/earlychildhood/EC_resources/advocacy/advocacy_toolkit.html

  • Organizing Your Advocacy Efforts
    http://www.state.ia.us/earlychildhood/docs/Part7REVISED.pdf

  • Tools and Resources
    http://www.ounceofprevention.org/advocacy/advocacy-tools.php

Resources for Action Plan 5

Note: You may decide to develop your Action Plan for a different issue other than child care or poverty, in which case you will need to find resources about your topic of concern.

• Article: Children's Defense Fund. (n.d.). Quality child care helps parents work and children learn. Retrieved January 6, 2009, from http://cdf.convio.net/site/DocServer/quality_child_care.pdf?docID=794
  
  
• Article: Children's Defense Fund. (2005). Child care basics. Retrieved from http://cdf.convio.net/site/DocServer/child_care_basics_2005.pdf?docID=282
  
  
• Web Article: State Fact Sheets on Early Childhood Development, Children's Defense Fund
  http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/data/state-data-repository/children-in-the-states-factsheets.html
  
  
• Web Article: Child Welfare League of America: 2008 State Fact Sheets
  http://www.cwla.org/advocacy/statefactsheets/statefactsheets08.htm
  
  
• Article: Children's Defense Fund. (2005). Defining poverty and why it matters for children. Retrieved from http://cdf.convio.net/site/DocServer/definingpoverty.pdf?docID=390
  
  
• Web Site: Kids Count Data Center: Data by State
  http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/bystate/Default.aspx
  
  

• Web Article: Military Projects at Zero to Three
  http://www.zerotothree.org/about-us/funded-projects/military-families/

• Web Article: Children and Families of Military Personnel
  http://www.healthychild.net/TheMedicineChest.php?article_id=424

• Web Article: Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes
  http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topicsandactivities/toolkits/tlc

Optional Resources

• Web Article: Zero to Three: Helping Young Children Succeed: Strategies to Promote Early Childhood Social and Emotional Development
  http://www.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/helping_young_children_succeed_final.pdf?docID=1725&AddInterest=1157
  
  
• Web Article: Who's Missing at the Table? Leadership Opportunities and Barriers for Teachers and Providers
  http://www.ccw.org/storage/ccworkforce/documents/publications/whosmissing.pdf
  
  
• Web Article: NAEYC Advocacy Toolkit
  http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/policy/toolkit.pdf
  
  
• Web Article: Transforming Schools Through Community Organizing: A Research Review
  http://www.hfrp.org/content/download/1190/48694/file/transform_community_organize.pdf
  

1. After reviewing pages 334–343 in your course text, summarize how children's socializing experiences relate to the physical, economic, social, and personal conditions of the community in which they live.
   
   
2. Communities can offer families vital prevention, support, and rehabilitation services. Review pages 346–352 in your text. Choose one example from each of these areas and explain why each is integral to healthy child and family development.
   
   
3. It can be said that caring communities "improve the opportunities for every young person, regardless of circumstances, to become a healthy, secure, educated, economically self-sufficient, and productive adult" (Berns, 2013, p. 352). From your perspective as a future early childhood professional, identify and explain three ways that a caring community can meet the needs of young children and their families, including those with the greatest needs