A public awareness and engagement campaign, created by the Reiner Foundation, to help people understand the importance of new brain research and its implications for our children's lifelong healthy development. Focus is on the first three years of life.

Website contains details about their campaign, brain facts Q&A, stages of child development, child care, discipline, health, nutrition, safety, sleeping, toilet training, sibling/peer relations, work and family life, reference lists of books, videos, magazines, TV shows, and internet resources, and expert advice QuickTime movie files.

Publication:

The First Years Last Forever: The New Brain Research and Your Child's Healthy Development. (In Canada, available through Canadian Institute of Child Health.) This is an outstanding 12-page clear jargon-free booklet. Most of the information is also included on the Foundation's website.

Contact Information:

I Am Your Child Foundation
P.O. Box 15605
Beverly Hills, CA 90209

1010 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., suite 800
Washington, DC 2007
Phone: (202) 202-338-4385
Fax: (202) 338-2334
Publications: (888) 447-3400
www.iamyourchild.org

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Updated June 28, 1999