'Week of the Young Child' site offers early childhood development resources

Web Site: www.vanerbilt.edu/kennedy/woyc/

Departments: John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development

Key Data: April 6-13 marks the national "Week of the Young Child," a time when policymakers, educators, physicians and parents alike concentrate their energies to improve kids' early years. Vanderbilt's John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development has assembled a Web site celebrating both the week and the message it sends. "The Kennedy Center is committed to producing new knowledge about early childhood education and about children with disabilities," said Jan Rosemergy, the Kennedy Center's director of communications and community relations. "Providing this Web site as a service gives us an opportunity to provide information to families, early childhood educators and child advocates such as legislators." The site provides focused information on the goals of the Week of the Young Child by pointing visitors to sites offering everything from research papers to case studies on early childhood development. Rosemergy said the Kennedy Center plans to maintain the site year-round as a resource on early childhood development. Schedules and descriptions of the events planned locally for the Week of the Young Child are available on the Web site.

-- Alex Burkett