Salud America!
Latino children are among those at greatest risk for obesity and its related health problems. Salud America! works to increase the number of Latino scientists seeking environmental and policy solutions to address Latino childhood obesity. It’s funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They have a powerful video on the obesity epidemic among Latino children. Please share your thoughts.  

Children need to receive emotional vitamins
If your child does not know how to read, you teach him. If your child does not know how to swim, you teach him. If your child does not know how to tie his shoes, you teach him. If your child does not know how to write, you teach him. If you child does not know how to behave, you … teach or punish him? By Lisa Brewster

Good News for Young Children in NC
On Friday the Governor’s and State Budget offices announced that the Smart Start withholding would be reduced from $10 million to $7 million. Only a few programs were given any grace within the 5% withholding that had been ordered earlier in the year. This reduces our overall cut from $26 million to approximately $23 million.   According to the Associated Press: The community college system will receive $19.5 million more to handle an influx of jobless students seeking to be retrained. The Department of Health and Human Servi

Study Shows Impact of Early Education on School Success
A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics offers more proof that early care and education experiences are a critical part o

Are Stimulus Dollars for Child Care Making it to Working Parents?
Eleven states currently report that they have not drawn down any funds provided by the federal government in the stimulus package to help working parents pay for child care. (Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, which was counted as a state), according to CLASP. Child care subsidies make quality child care more affordable, sup