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Working Paper #11: Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function Being able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, and switch gears is like having an air...

First 2000 Days Website Launched Stephanie Carroll Carson, Public News Service-NC http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/27380-1 (07/12/12) ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. - The first 2,000 days of a child's life are what education experts say are crucial to his or her development. North Carolinians from all walks...

MILC: Growing Strong Bones for Effective Family-Based Practice Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina is currently accepting applications for participation in the Motivational Interviewing Learning Collaborative (MILC) Pilot.  This pilot will take place in Raleigh, NC over the course of 9...

Winston-Salem, NC – Smart Start of Forsyth County, Inc. (SSFC) has received a grant from The Winston-Salem Foundation to provide 529 children in the Forsyth County NC Pre-K program with photo-refractive vision screening.  Vision screening is critical to the early...

Excerpt from the North Carolina Incredible Years June 2012 Newsletter Susan Nixon, IY facilitator and Executive Director at Chowan/Perquimans Smart Start Partnership for Children, shared her recent IY graduation success. Seven parents completed the program, and one of the parents...

Originally posted in the Avery Journal at http://averyjournal.com/Community/story/Children-learn-to-read-in-area-parks-this-summer-id-010003 Children learn to read in area parks this summer Justin Grimes / ([email protected]) Avery County’s award winning Smart Start takes its free summer reading series outside into area parks. The new program, StoryWalk, was...

RALEIGH—The budget released by the North Carolina General Assembly Wednesday evening provides early childhood programs with a reprieve from the damaging cuts of the past several years. At the same time, it keeps the state’s early education system disproportionately...

Study on Michigan Early Childhood Efforts Provides Startling Results By Ron French/Bridge Magazine Children who attended a public pre-K school program had greater success throughout their K-12 career, including graduating at a higher rate, according to a first-of-its-kind study that followed more than...

For Immediate Release from  the Covenant with North Carolina’s Children: Senate slashes infant mortality prevention programs Proposed budget draws ire from child advocates RALEIGH, NC – The Senate’s proposed budget for 2012-13 would discontinue funding for all state-funded infant mortality prevention programs, according...

BCBSNC Foundation Grant Drives More NC Produce to More NC Students The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and the BCBSNC Foundation Team Up to Expand the NC Farm to School Program to 35 Additional School Systems CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The...