UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities

Thank you to Dignity Health, the Hope Street Family Center team, our partners in Pomona, and our friends at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for a great tour and lunch today! We’re inspired by the work being done every day at Hope Street, and we’re excited to take our lessons learned from our dialogue today forward as we work together to create an early childhood ecosystem in Pomona that allows all children and families to flourish. Learn more about the Pomona Early Childhood Ecosystems Transformation Accelerator at https://lnkd.in/g7QMQpxt.

Last week, our Transformation Accelerator team met with our partners at the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department and the University of New Mexico Family Development Program in Albuquerque, NM to kickoff our work together. We're excited to see where our work together takes us!

Life Course Translational Research Network (LCT-RN) Prematurity Node leaders Jonathan Litt and Susan Hintz have co-edited a Special Issue of Children that considers the life-course implications of preterm birth on physical, mental and behavioral health, functional abilities and wellbeing of children and their families. This collection of twelve manuscripts explores both the experience of premature birth, and care after birth from a life course perspective, incorporating the reports of parents, family members and professionals from disciplines including psychology, child health, public health, nursing and doula care. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gHYS9WR3

Our LCT-RN team has launched their LinkedIn page! Follow along for updates.

👋 It's been a while since we last posted. Here are a few things that's been happening at our Center: - We launched a new website! Learn more about our Center at healthychild.ucla.edu. The Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities revealed its new visual identity last fall - all of our programs' colors create our new, unified logo. Explore our website to learn more about our look and our work. - We have a new names for several of our programs. Our Transforming Early Childhood Community Systems (TECCS) program is now known as Data Informed Futures, and the Life Course Intervention Research Network (LCIRN) is now the Life Course Translational Research Network (LCT-RN). Check out the LCT-RN's LinkedIn page at https://lnkd.in/gHNP9H9r - We launched new efforts in Pomona, CA and in New Mexico! Our Early Childhood Ecosystems Transformation Accelerator is working in Pomona and New Mexico and we're excited to be working with and for our partners to transform the ecosystems in which children live, play, and learn in. We'll be posting more often here - follow along and stay tuned for more.

Thank you to our speakers for today's Masterclass session (6) Unleash the Power of Equity Measurement and Collective Sensemaking to Uncover the Roots of Population Health Resilience and Flourishing. The recording is now available here: https://lnkd.in/etSUiGwT Much gratitude to Efren Aguilar, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities Children, Families & Communities; Sara Mickelson, New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department; Tim Sandoval, City of Pomona; and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University, as well as our participants for an insightful and engaging discussion. The session is part of ECDAN's Masterclass Series in Systems Thinking for Early Childhood Development which runs from April 23 to May 2. You can still register for the remaining sessions here: https://lnkd.in/enhTE6Yc Participants can earn a certificate by meeting specific requirements. #SystemThinking #EarlyChildhoodDevelopment #EarlyYears

Don't miss the Unleash the Power of Equity Measurement and Collective Sensemaking to Uncover the Roots of Population Health Resilience and Flourishing session (#6) on April 25, part of ECDAN's Masterclass Series in Systems Thinking for Early Childhood Development. The series runs from April 23 to May 2. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/e5qN7_rB The session will be led by Efren Aguilar, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University. Participants have the opportunity to earn a participation certificate by meeting specific requirements. Visit ECDAN's Masterclass Series in Systems Thinking website to learn more about other sessions. https://lnkd.in/enhTE6Yc The Systems Thinking for ECD Initiative is a partnership between Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and is supported by Porticus. This series has been curated by ECDAN and NORC at the University of Chicago.