\u201cEquity is at the core of everything we do,\u201d says Professor Dina Castro, director of the BU Wheelock Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being and Bahamdan Professor for Early
\nChildhood Well-Being. \u201cThat\u2019s our commitment: to transform the ecosystems surrounding children that perpetuate inequities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being fosters collaboration and innovation among researchers, scholars, and practitioners across disciplines, at BU and beyond. Its work
\nfocuses on five key areas: conducting research, building local and global community partnerships, convening experts on early childhood well-being, leading public discussion
\nand policy development, and educating early childhood practitioners through student fellowships, joint degree programs, and professional development.<\/p>\n
We consider it essential to use a holistic approach to early childhood development, one that takes into account family health, nutrition, economic security, social supports\u2014all the
\nfactors that contribute to child well-being and general public health. Naturally, then, BU Wheelock strives to take an equally holistic approach to preparing educators, counselors,
\nand others who will work with young children and their families, and to conducting research in this essential field. We also collaborate with our community partners to explore new
\nmodels of caring for children and helping to ensure that they grow up to be strong, healthy adults.<\/p>\n
We also know that the expertise required to solve pressing problems in early childhood is already emerging in multiple fields of study. But disciplinary silos and a lack of coordination make it hard to apply that expertise in practice. So, in addition to the multidisciplinary projects at the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being and our Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED), our collaborations include work with colleagues in BU\u2019s School of Social Work, its Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, and more.<\/p>\n
All of this work has the potential to transform children\u2019s and families\u2019 lives, and we are committed to finding reliable sources of support to ensure that it does.<\/p>\n
\u201cEquity is at the core of everything we do,\u201d says Professor Dina Castro, director of the BU Wheelock Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being and Bahamdan Professor for Early Childhood Well-Being. \u201cThat\u2019s our commitment: to transform the ecosystems surrounding children that perpetuate inequities.\u201d The Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being fosters collaboration and innovation among researchers, scholars, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18489,"featured_media":0,"parent":65561,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76921,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76920\/revisions\/76921"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=76920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}