Health is not just the absence of disease, but overall physical, mental, social, emotional, and community well-being. Investment in prevention, early intervention, and health coverage and access to care for children, caregivers, and families, will promote optimal health and development and mitigate the need for more intensive and costly interventions in the short- and long-term.
The early years of life present a crucial opportunity to support optimal development that will have lifelong consequences, as a child’s brain develops most rapidly during the early years. Interventions that help ensure healthy development and reduce childhood adversity in the early years have been shown to contribute to lifelong improvements in physical and mental health.
Policy Focus
Through our advocacy and analysis, Schuyler Center develops and promotes budget and public policy initiatives that:
- Focus on prevention, public health, and equity
- Invest resources in the early days and years of life for young children and their caregivers
- Expand maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting to any caregiver who requests services
- Ensure mental health services are available for parents, caregivers, infants, and children.
Early Childhood Health and Well Being Resources
Resource Category/Categories: Child Care, Child Poverty, Child Welfare, Early Childhood Health and Well Being, Health, NYS Budget, Pre-K | Resource Type: Policy Briefs & Reports
Resource Category/Categories: Child Poverty, Early Childhood Health and Well Being | Resource Type: Memos in Support
