Sharing Web Resources

The website that I chose to review during the beginning of class was The National Black Child Development Institute. nbcdi.com

When visiting the site, the outside link that I discovered was titled Engaging Families and Promoting positive health Practices. The mission of this specified project is to improve and advance the quality of life for Black children and their families, thru education and advocacy. This link shared how in America, poor nutrition practices in children and their families, and the lack of affordable and accessible healthy foods, have contributed to the rise in childhood obesity and hunger. Due to childhood obesity, Wal-Mart has partnered with nbcdi to develop a project that will enforce healthy nutrition and physical activity among Black children. There have been special activities put together in the efforts of eliminating obesity: Y's Healthy Kids Day, Come Zumba with Dad and Me, Yoga Your Stress Away, fitness event, Parent/Kid healthy Families event, and Father and Daughter Luncheon.

Unfortunately, the link that provides the newsletter would not open. I've tried on several occasions but it's not operating.

NBCDI has been dedicated to supporting the development of a high quality, accessible, affordable, and aligned system of early care and education for children's birth through age eight. During this course, the subject has seen around access, affordability, and availability of early care education for young children. NBCDI is and has support of federal, state, and local efforts to provide increasing numbers of low-income children with access to quality early education and care; efforts to create a strong and supported early childhood workforce; and efforts to promote developmentally and culturally-appropriate standards curriculum instruction and assessment that are aligned within and across the early childhood to early continuum.

My new insights that I've learned is the fact that poverty has taken on a new face. In the past poverty was pretty much one set of people or individuals but that's all changed. I believe that poverty has effected many different cultures and even now more transient families are being recognized for living in poverty. What this tells me is that educators and school systems need to be prepared for the drastic change. We need to be trained on how to met these families where they are and have resources available for them. The founder of NBCDI, Dr. DeHanay sits on a panel that works together to come up with solutions to help families who are living in poverty. Dr. DeHaney says that schools need to prepare and adjust in a non-traditional way at dealing with the new face of poverty.