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early childhood development, inclusion, diversity, Roma, REYN

 

When it comes to policies, strategies, and programs that support the inclusion of the most vulnerable and marginalized children, we cannot fail to consider the early childhood development (ECD) professionals…
Published in:
2019
Organization(s):
REYN
Language:
Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, English, Hungarian, Italian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian
Contact:
Aljosa Rudas (arudas@issa.nl)
Bulgaria, playful parenting, family, parenting support

Worldwide Orphans (WWO) created a learning at home activity manual with 20 activities to do in 20 minutes, targeted for children from 6 months-8 years of age with focus on supporting parent capacity to play with and support their child’s ongoing learning. The activity manual has been rolled out…

Published in:
2020
Organization(s):
Worldwide Orphans Foundation
Language:
Amharic, English, Bulgarian, Creole
Contact:
Melissa Middaugh, melissa@wwo.org
Ireland, ECEC, parenting support, vulnerable groups, children with disabilities, primary school, child-centered practice

Bridge Back to School was created by the Irish National Autism Charity ‘AsIAm’ and education exper/researchers at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, with the support of the supermarket chain SuperValu. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact society in unimaginable ways, with children…

Published in:
2020
Organization(s):
Mary Immaculate College
Language:
English
Contact:
Prof Emer Ring, emer.ring@mic.ul.ie
the Netherlands, children 0-3, family, home visiting, parenting support, playful parenting

This Toolkit has been developed in the context of the project ‘Making the first 1000 days count!’. The aim of this Toolkit is to provide Home Visitors with the latest scientific evidence about child development, learning and well-being as well as practical advice and materials, which they can…

Published in:
2020
Organization(s):
International Child Development Initiatives ICDI
Language:
Amharic, English
Contact:
Giulia Cortellesi, giulia@icdi.nl
Macedonia, family, child health, parenting support, child poverty, Roma, vulnerable groups

During the pandemic, the NGO “KHAM" Delcevo had an important role to play in raising awareness among the Roma community about how to be protected from COVID-19.  In order to achieve our objectives we implemented online education for pregnant women about going to the Gynecologist and taking…

Published in:
2020
Organization(s):
NGO “KHAM" Delcevo
Language:
Macedonian
Contact:
Zoran Bikovski, z_bikovski@yahoo.com
Greece, refugee children

Everyday experiences are being lost behind the statistics about the COVID-19 pandemic. This is especially true for those already marginalised, such as displaced men, women, and children. At Refugee Trauma Initiative (RTI), we spent time listening to the communities we work with to hear what life…

Published in:
2020
Organization(s):
Refugee Trauma Initiative
Language:
English
Contact:
Evelyn Wilcox, evelyn@refugeetrauma.org
Italy, playful parenting, Roma, vulnerable groups

For young children a phone line has been activated: they can call the line every day from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 12.00 to listen to fairy tales in Italian and Romanes languages that have a Roma protagonist. The stories were taken from the book “Gipsy fairy tales” by Alberto Melis, and…

Published in:
2020
Organization(s):
Association 21 July
Language:
Italian
Contact:
Francesca Petrucci, educazione@21luglio.org
Italy, child health, nutrition, Roma, vulnerable groups

As soon as the lookdown was declared by the Prime Minister, Associazione 21 luglio conducted a research to monitor the condition of Roma communities living in housing emergency in Rome.

Association 21 luglio carried out an investigation within the institutional Roma settlements in Rome,…

Published in:
2020
Organization(s):
Associazione 21 luglio
Language:
English
Contact:
Francesca Petrucci, educazione@21luglio.org
the Netherlands, ECEC, early childhood policy, TOY for inclusion, Roma, social inclusion, inclusive practice, vulnerable groups

This guide documents the promising practices of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Play Hubs, which support integration of Roma at local level. The practices and the accompanying recommendations are based on the evidence from the TOY for Inclusion project piloted in seven countries.…

Published in:
2018
Organization(s):
International Child Development Initiatives ICDI
Language:
English, Croatian
Contact:
Giulia Cortellesi, giulia@icdi.nl
the Netherlands, services for children, quality pedagogy, discrimination

Based on innovative global practice, Intergenerational Learning in Practice presents a unique contribution to the field of intergenerational learning. Drawing on the Together Old and Young (TOY) programme, this book provides a comprehensive background to intergenerational learning, along with…

Published in:
2019
Organization(s):
International Child Development Initiatives ICDI
Language:
English
Contact:
Giulia Cortellesi, giulia@icdi.nl
the Netherlands, social-emotional learning, vulnerable groups, ECEC, Children on the move

Children’s long term success at school is influenced as much by social, emotional and self-regulation skills as by academic skills and knowledge. The overall goal of SEED was to improve psychosocial well-being and healthy development of young children (2,5 to 6 years old), with an emphasis on…

Published in:
2018
Organization(s):
International Child Development Initiatives ICDI
Language:
English
Contact:
Margaret Kernan, margaret@icdi.nl
Greece, family, parenting support, playful parenting, refugee children

Refugee Trauma Initiative and our partners deliver Baytna - a trauma- and identity-informed model of Early Childhood Education for refugee children and their families living in Greece. Baytna was being implemented across five centres up until early March 2020, when delivery was halted due to…

Published in:
2020
Organization(s):
RTI
Language:
Sorani, Urdu, English, Arabic, Farsi, French, Greek, Kurmanji
Contact:
Evelyn Wilcox, evelyn@refugeetrauma.org
children 0-3, home visiting, parenting support, early childhood policy

Informing and guiding the development of a Framework to Strengthen the Capacity of “Tipat Halav” nurses in Israel is a qualitative research study on behalf of Goshen Institute, with the overall objective to generate in-depth data that…

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Organization(s):
Language:
English
Contact:
Belgium, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, quality integrated services, early childhood services, services for children, INTESYS, early childhood policy

These Policy Recommendations were written under the INTESYS Project, Erasmus+ Key Action 3 pilot project implemented in four European countries (Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Slovenia). INTESYS proposed and piloted an innovative Reference Framework and the Toolkit Towards Integrated…

Published in:
2019
Organization(s):
Language:
English
Contact:
the Netherlands, Belgium, social-emotional learning, ECEC

These Guidelines are the outcome of the second part of the SEED project, during which a group reflection pathway, called WANDA1, was piloted with 80 ECEC practitioners with the aim to help them to deal with daily challenges in their practice so they could better support the socio-emotional well-…

Published in:
2019
Organization(s):
ICDI, VBJK
Language:
English
Contact:
Margaret Kernan, margaret@icdi.nl
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