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Acting early can reduce inequality and create community sustainability.
Damien Knight Program Manager Benevolent Society
Acting early can reduce inequality and create community - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Acting early can reduce inequality and create community - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Acting early can reduce inequality and create community sustainability. Damien Knight Program Manager Benevolent Society We must make sustained improvements in a childs social environment. What is needed is a collective alliance to: Raise
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What is needed is a collective alliance to: Raise public awareness about the nature and importance of the early years. Codesign with parents and children a range of population wide responses Define how the region nurtures and includes all children in its future.
We must make sustained improvements in a child’s social environment.
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Every environment, every interaction is an intervention in early development
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As a child up to 80 percent of our brain develops within the first two years of life. More than 90 percent by their third birthday.
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Stress in Children Blame the Brain! Not the Child
Impact of stress produces increased cortisol which interupts early brain development. The neural circuits for dealing with stress are particularly malleable (or “plastic”) during the fetal and early childhood periods.
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Social benefits of early intervention
Most pronounced for programs that target children and families experiencing disadvantage.
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Economic benefits
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Thank you
http://benevolent.org.au/acting_early Contact: Research.policy@benevolent.org.au
‘Acting Early, Changing Lives’ report:
Acknowledgement Report prepared by The Centre for Community Child Health at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. www.rch.org.au/ccch
Damien Knight Damien.knight@benevolent.org.au Join our Early Action campaign http://bit.ly/early_action_now