“Every Child Deserves a 5th Birthday” is an awareness-raising campaign led by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). A child is much more likely to survive into adulthood if the severe risks of infancy can be mitigated and they reach that important milestone of their 5th birthday. By inviting individuals to remember their own 5th birthdays, they hope to inspire the global community to do more.
International Family Studies: Developing Curricula and Teaching Tools offers a collection of innovative ideas and resources for educators who wish to enhance the international content of their human development and family science curriculum. Contributors share their experiences of transforming department commitments, modifying existing and/or creating new courses, developing stimulating exercises and projects, capitalizing on existing faculty development programs to enhance educators’ own international understanding, partnering with universities overseas, and utilizing existing institutional structures to incorporate international study-abroad opportunities and internships for students. The book presents teaching tools and techniques, specific resources, and theoretical models for use in family studies, human development, and social science programs.
A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Berk’s Infants, Children, and Adolescents is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains; emphasizes the complex interchanges between heredity and environment; and provides exceptional attention to culture.
NCFR's United Nations representative, Dr. Mihaela Robila, will be presenting at an United Nations Expert Group Meeting on "Good Practices in Family Policies."
to fund 10 promising new ideas in international aid
March 27, 2012
The first-ever Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) call for proposals in communications, which will be funding up to 10 "game-changing" ideas to help solve one of the greatest challenges faced in the development community: changing the conversation around foreign aid.
