Patricia Somorcurcio, originally from Peru, has resided in Hartford for over a decade. She has a 4-year-old daughter diagnosed with stage one autism, who attends a special needs speech and behavior therapy program...

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https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2024-01-09/immigrant-families-suffer-in-cts-child-care-crisis-a-report-says-universal-funding-could-fix-that

What’s your child’s experience playing sports? We want to hear from you.

Youth sports look much different than 10 and 20 years ago. With increasing costs and limited spots, fewer children are playing sports, and many aren’t getting enough physical activity.

Today, we explore who gets the privilege to play on a team.

https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/2022-06-16/who-gets-the-privilege-of-playing-sports

Today we are celebrating and honoring Van Jones who is an American news commentator, author and a world-class change maker.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2HqAujM

Today we are celebrating and honoring Ashley Jackson who an activist, advocate, fiber artist and program management consultant. She served as the first Alabama State Director for the Human Rights Campaign.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #HumanRights #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/38s8isv

Today we are celebrating and honoring, Shaun King, who is a husband, #father, #activist and journalist. He is also a columnist for The Intercept and the Writer-In-Residence at Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2UIOQnq

Today we are celebrating and honoring Ava DuVernay, is a writer, producer, director, and distributor of independent film. One of her latest project that she wrote and directed is currently on Netflix. When They See Us, a series based on the Central Park Five, five teens that were falsely accused of an attack at Central Park.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2wRfHnf

Today we are celebrating and honoring Maya Wiley who is is a nationally renowned expert on #racial justice and #equity. She is currently the Senior Vice President for Social Justice at the New School University and the Henry Cohen Professor of Public and Urban Policy at The New School’s Milano School of Management, Policy & Environment.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VdINHt

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Bryan Stevenson, who is the founder and Executive Director of the #Equal Justice Initiative, a human #rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #EqualRightsJustice

To learn more about Mr. Stevenson: http://bit.ly/2OCYVhE

Today we are celebrating and honoring the late Elijah E. Cummings. He was a #civil rights #activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VvcoMH

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Michelle Alexander, who is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #CivilRights

Learn more about Michelle: http://bit.ly/2SpYW9X

Watch her Ted talk on the future of race in America: http://bit.ly/2UxYTeR

Today we are honoring and celebrating Dr. Esmeralda Simmons, who was the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social #Justice, a community-based legal institution, based at Medgar Evers College.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Watch as Dr. Simmons was honored as back in 2014 during Women's History Month: http://bit.ly/2HZy0ZH

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has an ambitious dream: screen every student for childhood trauma before entering school.

"A school nurse would also get a note from a physician that says: 'Here is the care plan for this child's toxic stress. And this is how it shows up,'" said Burke Harris, who was appointed California's first surgeon general in January.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/california-s-first-surgeon-general-screen-every-student-childhood-trauma-n1064286?fbclid=IwAR0UGx9JTtrKqgjz6vmHO3O1AxK8jNeAwnKlyI5LNuxw-YT5viUztMX4mm4

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring Mari Copeny, who at only 12 years old is already an #activist fighting for the children in Flint, Michigan during the water crisis.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #NewHaven #Flint #LittleMissFlint #BHM

Learn more about Mari at: http://bit.ly/2Ouc4tj

Today we are celebrating and honoring, Ta-Nehisi Coates who is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/39QVRXI

A new study using sophisticated brain scans found an association between screen use and the development of young children’s brains...

Source NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/well/family/screen-use-tied-to-childrens-brain-development

Today's activist that #NewHaven Healthy Start is honoring and celebrating is Dr. Tiffany Wiggins. She is the Director of the Division of #HealthyStart and Perinatal Services within the #Maternal and #Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

To learn more about Dr. Wiggins: http://bit.ly/38X5raM

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It’s a truism in child development that the very young learn through relationships and back-and-forth interactions, including the interactions that occur when parents read to their children. A new study provides evidence of just how sustained an impact reading and playing with young children can have, shaping their social and emotional development in ways that go far beyond helping them learn language and early literacy skills. The parent-child-book moment even has the potential to help curb problem behaviors like aggression, hyperactivity and difficulty with attention, a new study has found...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/well/family/reading-aloud-to-young-children-has-benefits-for-behavior-and-attention.html ;