National Scientific Council on the Developing Child | Jack P. Shonkoff
A new working paper from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child explores the effects of adversities such as poverty, discrimination, systemic racism, exposure to violence, and child maltreatment, abuse, and neglect on the developing brain and other systems in the body.
Early childhood adversities affect not only early learning and school readiness but also lifelong physical and mental health, writes Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., in the latest working paper from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. This report, accompanied by a video and briefs, focuses on how early adversity affects lifelong health outcomes and challenges readers to consider equitable solutions to disparities throughout the early childhood ecosystem.
