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Shaping Summertime Experiences - Opportunities to Promote Healthy Development and Well-Being for Children and Youth (Paperback)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Summertime Experiences and Child and Adolescent Education, Health, and Safety; Edited by Rebekah Hutton, …
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For children and youth, summertime presents a unique break from the
traditional structure, resources, and support systems that exist
during the school year. For some students, this time involves
opportunities to engage in fun and enriching activities and
programs, while others face additional challenges as they lose a
variety of supports, including healthy meals, medical care,
supervision, and structured programs that enhance development.
Children that are limited by their social, economic, or physical
environments during the summer months are at higher risk for worse
academic, health, social and emotional, and safety outcomes. In
contrast, structured summertime activities and programs support
basic developmental needs and positive outcomes for children and
youth who can access and afford these programs. These discrepancies
in summertime experiences exacerbate pre-existing academic
inequities. While further research is needed regarding the impact
of summertime on developmental domains outside of the academic
setting, extensive literature exists regarding the impact of
summertime on academic development trajectories. However, this
knowledge is not sufficiently applied to policy and practice, and
it is important to address these inequalities. Shaping Summertime
Experiences examines the impact of summertime experiences on the
developmental trajectories of school-age children and youth across
four areas of well-being, including academic learning, social and
emotional development, physical and mental health, and
health-promoting and safety behaviors. It also reviews the state of
science and available literature regarding the impact of summertime
experiences. In addition, this report provides recommendations to
improve the experiences of children over the summertime regarding
planning, access and equity, and opportunities for further research
and data collection. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1
Introduction 2 Summertime Experiences 3 The Effects of Summertime
Experiences on Children's Development 4 How Do Summer Programs
Influence Outcomes for Children and Youth? 5 The Effects of
Children's Circumstances on Summertime Experiences 6 Future
Directions for Policy, Practice, and Research Epilogue Appendix A:
Terminology Appendix B: Characteristics of American Camp
Association Accredited Day and Overnight Camps in 2016 Appendix C:
Public Session Agenda Appendix D: Authors of Memos Submitted to the
Committee Appendix E: Biosketches of Committee Members and Project
Staff Board on Children, Youth, and Families
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Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Exploring the Opportunity Gap for Young Children from Birth to Age Eight; Edited by Rebekah Hutton, …
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Many young children in the United States are thriving and have
access to the conditions and resources they need to grow up
healthy. However, a substantial number of young children face more
challenging conditions such as: poverty; food insecurity; exposure
to violence; and inadequate access to health care, well-funded
quality schools, and mental health care. In many cases, the
historical origins of unequal access to crucial supports for
children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development are
rooted in policies that intentionally segregated and limited
various populations' access to resources and create opportunity
gaps that intertwine and compound to affect academic, health, and
economic outcomes over an individual's life course and across
generations. Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children,
identifies and describes the causes, costs, and effects of the
opportunity gap in young children and explores how disparities in
access to quality educational experiences, health care, and
positive developmental experiences from birth through age eight
intersect with key academic, health, and economic outcomes. The
report identifies drivers of these gaps in three key
domains?education, mental health, and physical health?and offers
recommendations for policy makers for addressing these gaps so that
all children in the United States have the opportunity to thrive.
In addition, the report offers a detailed set of recommendations
for policy makers, practitioners, community organizations, and
philanthropic organizations to reduce opportunity gaps in
education, health, and social-emotional development. Table of
Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 Opportunity Gaps in
Early Care and Education Experienced by Children from Birth to
Pre-K 3 Opportunity Gaps in the Education Experienced by Children
in Grades K3 4 Opportunity Gaps in the Physical Health and Health
Care Experienced by Young Children and Their Parents 5 Opportunity
Gaps in the Social-Emotional Development, Well-being, and Mental
Health Experienced by Young Children 6 The Economic Costs of the
Opportunity Gap 7 Research, Policy, and Practice: Contexts and
Efforts to Address Opportunity Gaps 8 Key Conclusions and
Recommendations APPENDIX A APPENDIX B APPENDIX C COMMITTEE MEMBER
AND STAFF BIOSKETCHES
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Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech (Paperback)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Policy and Global Affairs, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech; Edited by Rebekah Hutton, …
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Demand for tech professionals is expected to increase substantially
over the next decade, and increasing the number of women of color
in tech will be critical to building and maintaining a competitive
workforce. Despite years of efforts to increase the diversity of
the tech workforce, women of color have remained underrepresented,
and the numbers of some groups of women of color have even
declined. Even in cases where some groups of women of color may
have higher levels of representation, data show that they still
face significant systemic challenges in advancing to positions of
leadership. Research evidence suggests that structural and social
barriers in tech education, the tech workforce, and in venture
capital investment disproportionately and negatively affect women
of color. Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech uses
current research as well as information obtained through four
public information-gathering workshops to provide recommendations
to a broad set of stakeholders within the tech ecosystem for
increasing recruitment, retention, and advancement of women of
color. This report identifies gaps in existing research that
obscure the nature of challenges faced by women of color in tech,
addresses systemic issues that negatively affect outcomes for women
of color in tech, and provides guidance for transforming existing
systems and implementing evidence-based policies and practices to
increase the success of women of color in tech. Table of Contents
Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 Literature Review of Research
on Girls and Women of Color in Computing, Science, and Technology 3
Challenging Assumptions Around the Recruitment, Retention, and
Advancement of Women of Color in Higher Education 4 Increasing
Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of Women of Color in the
Tech Industry 5 The Role of Government in Addressing the
Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech 6 Alternative
Pathways for Women of Color in Tech and the Role of Professional
Societies Appendix A: Alliances Focused on Women of Color and
Underrepresentation in Tech Appendix B: Professional Organizations
and Programs Focused on Women of Color and Underrepresentation in
Tech Appendix C: Workshop Agendas Appendix D: Committee Member
Biographies
Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable
for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne
pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and
effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the
United States, food-borne agents affect 1 out of 6 individuals and
cause approximately 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations,
and 3,000 deaths each year. This figure likely represents just the
tip of the iceberg, because it fails to account for the broad array
of food-borne illnesses or for their wide-ranging repercussions for
consumers, government, and the food industry-both domestically and
internationally. A One Health approach to food safety may hold the
promise of harnessing and integrating the expertise and resources
from across the spectrum of multiple health domains including the
human and veterinary medical and plant pathology communities with
those of the wildlife and aquatic health and ecology communities.
The IOM's Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop on
December 13 and 14, 2011 that examined issues critical to the
protection of the nation's food supply. The workshop explored
existing knowledge and unanswered questions on the nature and
extent of food-borne threats to health. Participants discussed the
globalization of the U.S. food supply and the burden of illness
associated with foodborne threats to health; considered the
spectrum of food-borne threats as well as illustrative case
studies; reviewed existing research, policies, and practices to
prevent and mitigate foodborne threats; and, identified
opportunities to reduce future threats to the nation's food supply
through the use of a "One Health" approach to food safety.
Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop
Summary covers the events of the workshop and explains the
recommendations for future related workshops. Table of Contents
Front Matter Workshop Overview Appendix A: Contributed Manuscripts
Appendix B: Agenda Appendix C: Acronyms Appendix D: Glossary
Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
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