So this week I decided to explore National black child development Institute. This organization has been around for 40 years and their goal is to provide resources to black children in need. These resources include education, healthcare, child welfare, literacy and family engagement. Their mission is to "improve and advance the quality of black children and their families through education and advocacy".
This organization supports children through the age of eight and their families through community based organizations, foundations and school systems, elected officials, government, head start, pre-k, partnerships and public schools.
I also noticed that the National Black child Development Institute has three priority areas at the state, local and federal level. The priorities are empowering parents, engaging communities, improving childcare and teacher quality, ensuring funding and resource equity.
I am glad I have checked out this web site because being an African american my self I find education very important in valuable in my race, community and culture. A long long time ago blacks were whipped for being able to read or write. They were punished for being educated and now today we have just as much opportunity as any other ethnicity.To have programs out there to support the black community say's a lot . now w have so many resources and support from policy makers.
Kweshonte,
ReplyDeleteSounds like a very interesting and informative website. I read and wrote about an article this week from the NIEER website talking about improving early childhood access for African American children. I would like to go to this website and read more about the initiatives that you wrote about. Thanks for sharing. I am including here the NIEER article I read.
http://nieer.org/sites/nieer/files/Equity%20and%20Excellence%20African-American%20Children%E2%80%99s%20Access%20to%20Quality%20Preschool_0.pdf
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