The Hennepin County Teen Parent Connection is excited to annouce that the Otto Bremer Foundation awarded the Hennepin County Teen Parent Connection with a $40,000 grant to continue our projects! Please help us send off Barry, a long time advocate and member of the HCTPC, to his next adventure in Colorado. Barry's hardwork as a social worker with teen parents in Hennepin County will be greatly missed. We would like to invite you to also check out our partner spot light, which includes teen parent programming from FamilyWise and Way to Grow.
Monitoring,Evaluation and learning initiative: Young children affected by HIV...Jared Ogeda
In this issue of the newsletter we feature a situational analysis
from PATH focusing on the integration of ECD services in Nyanza
Province, Kenya; we introduce more team members working on
Hilton Foundation-funded projects; we go up close with the Firelight Foundation and the work they are doing; we begin a series
on the ‘Nutrition and Nurturance of Young Children’ with a companion piece on breastfeeding; and we discuss what we can and
can’t learn from before and after measures in evaluations.
Volume 3: issue 1 of our newsletter
Contents
• Editors Note
• KENYA: Parenting 101: Parenting styles and learning outcomes for school children
• MAURITIUS: PAN Member, Halley Movement
• Triple P Demystified
• PAN Events: Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia Round table meeting
The poll Time to care: generation generosity under pressure shows that grandparents have given a total of £8 billion in the past year to pay for a range of grandchildren’s needs, and that nearly two million grandparents have given up a job, reduced their hours or taken time off work to look after their grandchildren.
The Hennepin County Teen Parent Connection is excited to annouce that the Otto Bremer Foundation awarded the Hennepin County Teen Parent Connection with a $40,000 grant to continue our projects! Please help us send off Barry, a long time advocate and member of the HCTPC, to his next adventure in Colorado. Barry's hardwork as a social worker with teen parents in Hennepin County will be greatly missed. We would like to invite you to also check out our partner spot light, which includes teen parent programming from FamilyWise and Way to Grow.
Monitoring,Evaluation and learning initiative: Young children affected by HIV...Jared Ogeda
In this issue of the newsletter we feature a situational analysis
from PATH focusing on the integration of ECD services in Nyanza
Province, Kenya; we introduce more team members working on
Hilton Foundation-funded projects; we go up close with the Firelight Foundation and the work they are doing; we begin a series
on the ‘Nutrition and Nurturance of Young Children’ with a companion piece on breastfeeding; and we discuss what we can and
can’t learn from before and after measures in evaluations.
Volume 3: issue 1 of our newsletter
Contents
• Editors Note
• KENYA: Parenting 101: Parenting styles and learning outcomes for school children
• MAURITIUS: PAN Member, Halley Movement
• Triple P Demystified
• PAN Events: Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia Round table meeting
The poll Time to care: generation generosity under pressure shows that grandparents have given a total of £8 billion in the past year to pay for a range of grandchildren’s needs, and that nearly two million grandparents have given up a job, reduced their hours or taken time off work to look after their grandchildren.
This chapter examines key public assistance programs, including the former Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); AFDC’s replacement, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF); Supplemental Security Income (SSI); and general assistance (GA). The chapter also investigates and analyzes the problems and issues inherent in public assistance programs.
Peterborough Young Carers conference: Celebration, Awareness, Practice - challenging quiz about young carers in the UK from The Children's Society. contact Jenny.Hine@childrenssociety.org.uk
Collection of data from various web site about the cost of home care versus other types of long term care. Statistics on healthcare. Long term care insurance. Resistance to care. Caring from a distance.
Strategic Overview of the early childhood development/learning landscape in Alberta and Edmonton, prepared for the Head Start Action Learning Project (Edmonton) Pre-Retreat, May 24 2011, Edmonton.
This chapter examines key public assistance programs, including the former Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); AFDC’s replacement, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF); Supplemental Security Income (SSI); and general assistance (GA). The chapter also investigates and analyzes the problems and issues inherent in public assistance programs.
Peterborough Young Carers conference: Celebration, Awareness, Practice - challenging quiz about young carers in the UK from The Children's Society. contact Jenny.Hine@childrenssociety.org.uk
Collection of data from various web site about the cost of home care versus other types of long term care. Statistics on healthcare. Long term care insurance. Resistance to care. Caring from a distance.
Strategic Overview of the early childhood development/learning landscape in Alberta and Edmonton, prepared for the Head Start Action Learning Project (Edmonton) Pre-Retreat, May 24 2011, Edmonton.
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Single Parents and Affordable Childcare
Affordable Childcare Assists the Single Parent with Obtaining and Keeping a Job
Many single parents work full-time but are unable to afford adequate childcare.
In order to work outside of the home, a parent must have affordable, adequate, and reliable childcare.
These circumstances have created an increased need for affordable childcare (Moodie-Dyer, 2011).
“Childcare has probably been the primary barrier to employment for single parents. Simply put, a parent cannot simultaneously care for preschool children and be at work’ (Hooten, 2002).
Having access to quality childcare will dramatically affect a single parent’s ability to find and maintain employment, as well as the ability to mobilize upward, and the prospect of becoming self-sufficient (Hooten, 2002).
A lack of accessible, affordable, and quality childcare is an issue affecting many single parents.
To remain actively and successfully employed, single parents need affordable childcare.
Not Many Resources are Available to Assist Single Parents with Affordable Childcare
Half or more of the children growing up in the U.S. today will spend some or all of their childhood in a single parent family (Casey & Maldonado, 2012).
Given all the statistical research provided by websites, journals, and magazines on the increasing number of single parents, there still is not a plethora of childcare resources.
The government does not make childcare available to suit the needs of the single parent which can become a difficult choice between family and work (Hooten, 2002).
Two-parent households have the advantage of pooling together resources where both parents can work and share the expense of childcare or one parent can stay home while the other goes to work (Hooten, 2002).
A single parent’s only options are to pay traditional childcare fees, depend on a relative or friend, or turn to the government for sparse funding.
For many single parents, there is not enough funds to afford traditional childcare, there are no dependable relatives or friends, and the parent’s income may exceed the limit for governmental childcare assistance.
Many Single Parents make Minimal Wages and Cannot Afford the Costly Expense of Childcare
Childcare is broken down into different types:
Childcare centers – regulated by the particular state of residence. These centers are inspected at least once a year and must meet certain standards and requirements.
Family childcare providers – care for children in a private home setting. These arrangements are usually not regularly monitored and can be very risky.
In home care by sitter or nanny – care for children directly in the parent’s home.
All three options require a specified fee to care for the child.
For many single parents, actual or potential earnings are too little to pay for childcare. In 2011, among the states, the average annual cost for full-time care for an infant ranged from $4,591 (MS) to $20,178 (DC) for cent.
In this issue of the newsletter we feature a situational analysis
from PATH focusing on the integration of ECD services in Nyanza
Province, Kenya; we introduce more team members working on
Hilton Foundation-funded projects; we go up close with the Firelight Foundation and the work they are doing; we begin a series
on the ‘Nutrition and Nurturance of Young Children’ with a companion piece on breastfeeding; and we discuss what we can and
can’t learn from before and after measures in evaluations.
Child Poverty
Child Poverty Essay
Childhood Poverty Essay
Persuasive Essay On Child Poverty
Child Poverty
Child Poverty
Child Poverty Essay
Child Poverty And Its Effects On Children
Child Poverty
Reflection About Child Poverty
The Effects of Children Poverty in the UK Essay
The Effects of Poverty on Children Essay
Child Poverty
Children In Poverty Essay
Child Poverty
Child Poverty In The Uk Essay
child poverty
Essay On Child Poverty
The Problem Of Child Poverty Essay
Child Poverty in New Zealand
Persuasive Presentation Outline
Introduction
· Topic: Should children be raised by their grandparents? Why?
· Topic Introduction/Background: In the modern society, there are lots of parents are busy , do not like children, and in prison. So, many children are raised by grandparents.
· Thesis Statement: In my opinion, children should not be raised by grandparents because grandparents will spoil their grandchildren and spend lots of energy to take care children will have negative influence to older health. If the parents can give lots of money for grandparents taking care children, why they are not hire a people to do that thing?
Body
· Main Point (Argument) 1: older health will have be negative influenced by raising chlidern.
· Supporting Details: grandparents will suffer huge pressure from taking care their grandchildren. Their energy can not support them to raise a child.
· Supporting Details: Raising a child need spend lots of money. The older do not have many income and they need spend money to keep their health. So, It will make older sustain a huge economical pressure.
· Evidence (+ Citation): “Taking care of small children always need huge costs. When their retirement, older always enjoy peace life. It will break the organic life of grandparents. They do not have plan to raise a baby. Maybe, the economical problem will let them back to work.”(n.d.)
· Counterargument: Many older have a big annuity and their consume are very low. Moreover, parents of child will give some money for raising children. So, economical problem is not exist.
· Rebuttal: In fact, there are not many older have a good income when they are old. And older need spend lots of money to keep their healthy life.
· Main Point (Argument) 2: grandparents will spoil their grandchildren.
· Supporting Details: Actually, grandparents always will spoil children. Older man always rich, they will give the best to their grandchildren. It is not good for children growth.
· Supporting Details: The gift from the grandparents always better than parents and they will buy something which are children prefer. Such as video games, movies, and lots of snakes etc. All of these things will have negative influence to their children.
· Evidence (+ Citation): “The grandparent’s gift outshine the parent’s gifts and they buy expensive items for the grandchildren” (Susan ,2018).
· Counterargument: Some grandparents will help children to build the good habit. But they will not give some expensive things to their grandchildren.
· Rebuttal: In fact, there are lots of grandparents will spoil their grandchildren. They can not change their though and the way of their love children is different with the parents.
Conclusion
· Restatement of Thesis: there are two disadvantage aspects for grandparents should raise children.
· Summary of Main Points: The first disadvantage is that the children’s healthy will be negative influenced by grandparents bad habit. Besides, grandparents sp ...
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A team of MDes students from OCAD University in Toronto defines problem areas and opportunities for innovation in early childhood learning in urban slums.
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Low-Income Households: How it Effects Child Development
“One in seven Canadian children — or 967,000 — live in a low-income household”
(Monsebraaten L, 2013). This number is extremely high and continues to increase. “For all
children to have a strong foundation, they need better access to quality early care and
education, and coordinated health care and support services for their families” (McCarthy
P, 2013). These needs are hard to obtain for a low-income family; research shows coming
from a low-income household can have a negative effect on child development, the services
and programs available for low-income households and the importance of care providers
when it comes to children of low-income households.
“Less than one in five third-graders from low-income families score at or above the
national average in math, reading and science assessments, and only about half maintain a
healthy weight and are in “excellent” or “very good” health”(Chandler MA, 2013). Children
born into low-income households are not only negatively affected cognitively and
physically but also emotionally and socially. McCarthy (2013) states “All children need
nurturing and plentiful opportunities to develop during their crucial first eight years”,
which is hard to provide when struggling with low-income. Cognitively a child could be
affected by low-income households from not being able to afford high quality daycare with
well qualified staff in ratio, and safe and developmentally appropriate materials. Having a
low-income can make it hard to afford a place big enough or by a park for a child to be
active, also, it makes it hard to afford healthy food, if even enough food which will affect the
child’s physical development. Emotional development is affected by low-income because
the parent(s) need to work longer hours or have two jobs so they don’t have time for close
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needed interactions with their children, leaving their children feeling abandoned. Low-
income also causes increased levels of stress for parents and usually causes arguments and
fighting between them which can be emotionally hard for the children if noticed. Not
having the money to afford new things for their children or have the time to make play
dates and have the children’s friends over can affect social development.
There are a few services and programs available to help minimize the severity of
low-income affecting child development. One of them is joining a Head Start program:
“The objectives of this program are: to improve the child’s health; aid the child’s
intellectual, social, and emotional development; improve and expand the child’s
ability for self-expression; and help both the enrollees and their families gain
greater confidence and self-respect, and dignity”.(Coastal Plain Area EOA, Inc, 2014)
There are also government programs and services such as The Alberta Child Health Benefit
Plan, The Child Care Subsidy Program, and The Kin Child Care Funding Program.
“The Alberta Child Health Benefit Plan helps low-income Albertans manage their
children’s health care bills by providing free eyeglasses, prescriptions, and dental
visits. The Child Care Subsidy Program helps eligible low- and middle-income
families with the cost of licensed or approved out-of-school child care. The Kin Child
Care Funding Program helps low- and middle-income families pay non-custodial
relatives to care for their children.”(Alberta Committee of citizens with disabilities,
2014)
These are all great services but sadly the reality is that they are not enough to get families
passed the low-income status.
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“It's estimated that lower-income children enter kindergarten 12 to 18 months
behind the average child” (Shand M, 2014). This can be and should be mediated by parents,
teachers, and daycare workers: in other words, all caregivers. First of all, caregivers need to
understand the seriousness and importance of the negative effects coming from a low-
income household can have on a child. They need to be educated on the services and help
that are available for low-income families so they can direct the families to them. It is
important for the caregivers to provide responsive and nurturing support for these
children and have patience when dealing with behavioral issues. Extra one-on-one time
with the child may be beneficial to ensure a healthy relationship is formed, provide extra
healthy snacks to these children if they show they are hungry, plan programs so there is
lots of time for active play indoors and outdoors, and have extra indoor and outdoor
clothing available for these children.
Even with the knowledge of low-income households affecting children’s
development negatively, the services available for low-income households and quality care
providers who understand the needs of children from low-income households, this issue
isn’t getting resolved. McCarthy (2013) states “today’s complicated world can strain
families’ ability to ensure their children are receiving all the stimulation and care they need
to develop to their full potential”. Part of this complicated world is explained by Ines Garcia,
48, who has lived in poverty with her four children for 25 years. She says “I’m grateful for
the government help, it’s just that they make it so difficult to get ahead. Every little
improvement here gets wiped out by money they take away somewhere else” (Ines G,
2013). In some cases the parents need to be told that their child shouldn’t have to sacrifice
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so that they can have the life they want, they should make sacrifices so their child can have
the life that it deserves. In most cases the reality is that the expense of living these days is
expensive and the parents are doing the best they can with what they have. It’s up to the
government to provide families of low-income with as much funding as possible and
caregivers to provide the best care possible for children of low-income families so their
development isn’t affected as negatively as it could be.
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