Early Childhood Resources

Early childhood education and early intervention provide a foundational framework that shapes a child's brain architecture, cognitive growth, and lifelong health. 

The time between birth and age 3 is a period of rapid brain development. More than one million new neural connections form every second during the first few years of life, making early experiences critical for structuring how a child learns, behaves, and manages stress. It is important that mechanisms and interventions to support that development are available as early in a child's life as possible.

Structured early learning builds essential literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills, leading to higher third-grade reading proficiency, increased high school graduation rates, and long-term academic success. 

Early childhood environments teach children how to cooperate, share, regulate emotions, and resolve conflicts peacefully, fostering the mental resilience needed to overcome adverse childhood environments.

When brain development in infants and young children is fully supported, they are more likely to reach milestones critical to future individual and community success. These milestones include third-grade reading proficiency, high school graduation and postsecondary education, future employment, lifetime physical and mental health and well-being, and avoidance of substance use disorder and crime.

Other Resources

https://www.virtuallabschool.org/preschool

https://talkingisteaching.org/parent-resources/ 

https://www.helpmegrow.org/

https://brightbeginningskids.knack.com/communityresourcedirectories#directory/