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Learn more about actions to respond to, mitigate & lessen the effects of climate change and help ensure all children can get a healthy start Photo: Jill Anderson, courtesy of HGSE. The Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Education Forum recently brought together early childhood & health experts – including the Center’s Chief Science Officer, Dr. Lindsey Burghardt, and education & public health advocate, Chelsea Clinton – for a conversation on the impacts of environmental change on early childhood development. Learn more about actions to respond to, mitigate & lessen the effects of climate change and help ensure all children can get a healthy start Photo: Jill Anderson, courtesy of HGSE. Watch Recording A Place to Play: Moving Towards Fairness of Place for All Children PODCAST A Place to Play: Moving Towards Fairness of Place for All Children In March 2024, we continued our Place Matters webinar series with, A Place to Play: Moving Towards Fairness of Place for All Children,” where our panel of experts discussed how access to safe, stimulating, and joyful play space is not equally distributed and shared strategies to work toward building a future where all children have a safe place to play. In this podcast episode, we share a portion of that webinar, exploring how play and access to safe green spaces support early development. In March 2024, we continued our Place Matters webinar series with, A Place to Play: Moving Towards Fairness of Place for All Children,” where our panel of experts discussed how access to safe, stimulating, and joyful play space is not equally distributed and shared strategies to work toward building a future where all children have a safe place to play. In this podcast episode, we share a portion of that webinar, exploring how play and access to safe green spaces support early development. Listen Now Brain-Building Through Play HANDOUTS Brain-Building Through Play: Activities for Infants, Toddlers and Children The following handout series, developed with support from the LEGO Foundation, provides suggestions for games and play-based activities based on a child’s age. The activities for younger children are designed for adults to engage in with children. Activities for later ages allow the adults to step back, enabling children’s independence to blossom as they transition to playing more often with peers. View Handouts Extreme Heat Affects Early Childhood Development and Health WORKING PAPER Extreme Heat Affects Early Childhood Development and Health Read Working Paper 1 from the Early Childhood Scientific Council on Equity and the Environment, which explores the implications of rising global temperatures on early childhood development and lifelong health. 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