Acting early can reduce inequality and create community sustainability. Damien Knight Program Manager Benevolent Society
We must make sustained improvements in a child’s social environment. What is needed is a collective alliance to: Raise public awareness about the nature and importance of the early years. Codesign with parents and children a range of population wide responses Define how the region nurtures and includes all children in its future.
Every environment, every interaction is an intervention in early development
As a child up to 80 percent of our brain develops within the first two years of life. More than 90 percent by their third birthday.
Stress in Children Blame the Brain! Not the Child Impact of stress produces increased cortisol which interupts early brain development. The neural circuits for dealing with stress are particularly malleable (or “plastic”) during the fetal and early childhood periods.
Social benefits of early intervention Most pronounced for programs that target children and families experiencing disadvantage.
Economic benefits
Thank you Damien Knight Acknowledgement Report prepared by The Centre for Damien.knight@benevolent.org.au Community Child Health at the Murdoch ‘Acting Early, Changing Lives’ report: Children’s Research Institute and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. http://benevolent.org.au/acting_early Contact: Research.policy@benevolent.org.au www.rch.org.au/ccch Join our Early Action campaign http://bit.ly/early_action_now
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