Getting to know your International Contacts -Part 2

The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University was founded in 2006 on the belief that the vitality and sustainability of any society depend on the extent to which it expands opportunities early in life for all children to achieve their full potential and engage in responsible and productive citizenship. In reading the article from this agency insight I learned is that by educating high-level decision makers about the common underlying science of learning, behavior, and health for young children will make a difference in how educators, schools, both public and the private sector put systems in place to educate young children. Additionally I learned that that there are under addressed mental health issues across the country and Harvard University is looking for funding to doing the following

Assessing the state of child mental health services in China ;Developing and evaluating family-based strategies to prevent mental health problems in children affected
by HIV/AIDS in Rwanda; and Addressing child maltreatment and mental health
outcomes in three Caribbean nations (Barbados, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname).

The center expresses that they want to strengthen their policy relevance, each of these projects is being designed to include an economic component to analyze allocation effects in the supply and demand for services, developing opportunities to provide leadership training for individual researchers, policymakers, and institutions ,primarily in the majority world. I believe that if more agencies strive to improve the well- being of children.