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Rivals cost of other high profile public health problems ATLANTA, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of confirmed cases of child maltreatment (physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse and neglect)...

Don't miss this opportunity!  Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, will participate in a live webcast on The Toxic Stress of Early Childhood Adversity: Rethinking Health and Education Policy. The webcast will be moderated...

The Early Learning Challenge Collaborative held a briefing, “Strengthening State Systems: A Closer Look at the Early Learning Challenge,” the week of January 23, 2012. Leaders from North Carolina, Maryland, Ohio, and Colorado came together to discuss the earliest outcomes...

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefitting from their early experiences in a variety of ways, according to a new study. The study...

Yesterday, Governor Bev Perdue called on the General Assembly to restore the three-quarters of the one-cent sales tax that was eliminated during the last legislative session and dedicate those funds to education. In response, Dr. Olson Huff, Chair of the Board...

Today, Stephanie Fanjul, President of The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. (NCPC), spoke to members of the North Carolina House Select Committee on Early Education Improvement about Smart Start. She reviewed Smart Start’s history, highlighted challenges that Smart...

True to the Nationwide slogan of being “on your side,” Midgett Insurance Agency is helping young children and families in Dare County, through a donation of $500 to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. As supporters of the program since 2007,...

Smart Start of Brunswick County has received a matching grant award from Raising a Reader for its Books for Babies in Brunswick County project.  Books for Babies partners Smart Start’s Raising A Reader and Parents As Teachers together in...

Dr. Donna Bryant, a Senior Scientist at FPG Child Development Institute, tells Barlow Herget that early education works for children, especially poor, at rick children if they continue to receive a good education throughout their school years.  Hear what Dr....

Smart Start announces second round of counties to implement Shape NC RALEIGH – Smart Start, the state’s award-winning early childhood initiative, has announced the next 10 communities selected to implement Shape NC: Healthy Starts for Young Children. Shape NC is...