Publications
Children’s Support Services:
Providing a System of Care for Young Children with Challenging Behavior
Children’s Support Services is a mental health system of care for young children (ages 2 – 6) who exhibit significant emotional or behavioral difficulties and who are at risk of suspension or expulsion from their early education and care program. The primary goal of this model is to provide an individualized package of supports and services that stabilize the child’s behavior in his/her child care setting so that learning can take place.
Children’s Support Services has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, the Association for Childhood Education International, and the Children’s Defense Fund.
The Global Café Cookbook
It’s a cookbook. It’s a learning experience. Through the preparation of an eclectic assortment of meals, snacks, and desserts children learn about other cultures, the importance of measurements and mathematics in daily life, family values, and critical language/ communication skills. The recipes contained in this collection come from many different cultures, including Chappatis (a fried bread from India), Sweet Pea soup (from East Africa), Salsa Cruda and Frijoles (from Mexico), and Falafel, Sticky Rice, and Monte-caditos (a butter cookie from Puerto Rico).
“These activities could be integrated easily into our whole language and global studies curriculum.”
1st grade teacher, Lowell, MA
For Grandparents Only: Sharing Life’s Lessons to Support Children’s Learning
For Grandparents Only is a unique, and beautifully illustrated resource that offers grandparents and their grandchildren opportunities to bond and to create special memories together through different practical, yet fun activities. Each chapter features specially themed activities that spark children's interest and leads to the development of essential language and literacy and interpersonal skills and stimulate mathematical thinking and creative expression.
Guide to Assess the Quality of Family Literacy Programs
The Guide is a program self-reflection tool for continuous quality improvement. It facilitates discussion and reflection among family literacy teams’ on 15 program features to identify evidence of quality, including program design, management, collaboration, and parenting education. Forty-five researchbased program characteristics are examined and linked to child, adult and family outcomes. The Guide helps programs document strengths and challenges, informs continuous quality improvement efforts and provides evidence of success to share with partners, funders, and community members.
