Exercise Program as the Child Care Support Program

Evaluating the Implementation of Child Development and Care Program in Isfahan Comprehensive Child Development Center

Abstract Background: The Comprehensive Child Development Center was established in 2012 in the center of Isfahan province to rapidly identify and intervene in the developmental problems of children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation of this program. Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical study conducted based on the framework for evaluating public health programs es...

The Child and Adult Care Food Program and Food Insecurity

The Child and Adult Care Food Program ðCACFPÞ provides cash reimbursement to family day care, child-care centers, homeless shelters, and afterschool programs for meals and snacks served to children. Despite young children’s known vulnerability to fluctuations in nutritional intake, prior literature has largely neglected the contributions of the CACFP to reducing household food insecurity. Using...

Cognitive individualism and the child as scientist program.

In this paper, I examine the charge that Gopnik and Meltzoff's 'Child as Scientist' program, outlined and defended in their 1997 book Words, Thoughts and Theories is vitiated by a form of 'cognitive individualism' about science. Although this charge has often been leveled at Gopnik and Meltzoff's work, it has rarely been developed in any detail. I suggest that we should distinguish between two ...

Child care in Quebec: access to a universal program.

BACKGROUND Five cycles of data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (1994/5-2002/3) were used to examine patterns of child care use in Quebec and the rest of Canada to explore the impact of Quebec's implementation of universal child care. METHODS Rates of overall use as well as use of regulated (child care centre, family child care) and non-regulated care (sitt...

The clinical support systems program.