The Early Years Opportunity
Accompanying Resources
Building a Strong Foundation
Government of Alberta, Early Child Development (ECD) Mapping Project
Calgary and area’s First 2000 Days Early Childhood Development network
Ready 4 Learning
How Brains are Built: The Core Story, Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Brain architecture and development summary, Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Sharing the Brain Story: The AFWI’s Knowledge Mobilization Strategy
The Science of Early Childhood Development, (video) - Dr Jack Shonkoff, Centre for Developing Child, Harvard Education
Early Brain Experience, 01, BBC
Sensitive periods in early brain development, (video) Dr. Clyde Hertzman, Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership
Apple Magazine, Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Sharing the Brain Story: The AFWI’s Knowledge Mobilization Strategy
Alberta Health Services resource Healthy Parents Healthy Children for developmental milestone charts Developmental Stages, Tasks and Milestones and Development Doesn't Happen At A Steady Pace for information on developmental check-ups.
Health Link Alberta toll-free in Alberta at 1-866-408-LINK (5465).
The Ages and Stages Questionnaires can be accessed online.
Healthy Parents Healthy Children - Alberta Health Services
Relationship and Serve and Return
Winning ways to talk to young people, Washington State Department of Health and Social Issues.
Staying Connected, How Parenting affects your Child’s Brain, Jennifer Kolari
Science is Seconds: Early Brain Development (video) Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Serve and Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry (video) Center on the Developing Child – Harvard University
Experiences Build Brain Architecture from Harvard University’s Centre on the developing child, Three Core Concepts in Early Development
Early Experiences & Gene ExpressionAlberta Family Wellness Initiative
Media and Children TED talk, Dr.Dimitri Christakis
Healthy Parents Healthy Children – Screen Time, Alberta Health Services
Media and Children in this TED talk Dr.Dimitri Christakis
Promoting Heathy Brain Development: You can Make a Difference, Better Brains for Babies, Georgia USA.
Supporting a Healthy Environment for Development
Brain Plasticity and Behavioral Change, Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Positive, Tolerable & Toxic Stress, Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Kids Have Stress Too! Ideas, Tips and Strategies for Parents of Preschoolers from: The Psychology Foundation of Canada
Help Kids Handle Stress’ Brochurebrochure for parents, The Psychology Foundation of Canada
“Breathing Buddies” – Teaching Mindfulness to your Child
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown and Christopher Vaughan (2010)
“Just Playing” Anita Wadley
Executive Function and Self-Regulation
Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development, Center on the Developing Child – Harvard University
Staying Connected
Alberta Education’s Inspiring Action: Competencies of an Educated Albertan
Executive Function: Skills for life and learning, the Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Tools of the mind, What Parents Need To Know About Supporting Self-Regulation strategies
Parent Link Centrefor local resources.
Healthy parents Healthy Child – AHS