Helping Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Policies and Strategies for Early Care and Education
In this report, the concept of Early Childhood (ages zero to 6) and Early Childhood Trauma are scrutinised in detail with some statistics.
Early childhood trauma and its effects are described, promising strategies for early care and education (ECE) programs and systems to help young children who have experienced trauma are offered and recommendations for state policymakers and other stakeholders looking to support trauma-informed ECE for this vulnerable group are presented.
The report includes the following:
• a definition of early childhood trauma, including different types and its prevalence;
• the impacts of early childhood trauma on the child, family, and ECE programs;
• the special needs of young children who have experienced trauma;
• a description of trauma-informed care;
• promising program strategies to support the healthy development and learning of young children in ECE; and
• recommendations of policies that could increase the capacity of ECE providers to help children who have experienced trauma learn and thrive.
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- CountryUSA
- LanguageEnglish
- Type of resourceDocument
