Sentences with phrase «enter kindergarten healthy»

(La.) Proposed changes to Louisiana's licensing rules for childcare and centers that administrate Head Start programs aim to ensure that more children will enter kindergarten healthy and prepared to learn.

Every child deserves a strong start in life: children need to enter kindergarten healthy, happy, and eager to learn.

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We strive to ensure that all students enter school healthy and ready to learn, and we support this effort by creating and maintaining programs that target students before they enter kindergarten.

One evaluation conducted in Queensland, Australia, reported moderate reductions in depressive symptoms for mothers in the intervention group at the six - week follow - up.89 A subsequent follow - up, however, suggested that these benefits were not long lasting, as the depression effects had diminished by one year.90 Similarly, Healthy Families San Diego identified reductions in depression symptoms among program mothers during the first two years, but these effects, too, had diminished by year three.91 In Healthy Families New York, mothers at one site (that was supervised by a clinical psychologist) had lower rates of depression at one year (23 percent treatment vs. 38 percent controls).92 The Infant Health and Development program also demonstrated decreases in depressive symptoms after one year of home visiting, as well as at the conclusion of the program at three years.93 Among Early Head Start families, maternal depressive symptoms remained stable for the program group during the study and immediately after it ended, but decreased just before their children entered kindergarten.94 No program effects were found for maternal depression in the Nurse - Family Partnership, Hawaii Healthy Start, Healthy Families Alaska, or Early Start programs.

«Early literacy skills are critical for the development of healthy minds and bodies, and enable our children to enter kindergarten prepared to succeed with larger vocabularies and stronger language skills,» stated Callee Boulware, Executive Director of Reach Out and Read Carolinas.

We support positive early parenting so that emotionally and physically healthy children can enter early childhood programs, and eventually kindergarten, ready to learn and thrive.