In this episode of the Early Link Podcast, we speak with Dr. John Kitzhaber, a physician and previous governor of Oregon, about ways to improve our health systems and re-frame the national healthcare debate. Dr. John Kitzhaber is well known in Oregon and across the...
The Oregon legislature approved funding earlier this year for Universally offered Home Visiting (UoHV), a program designed to support infants and toddlers and their families while promoting healthy development and early learning from the time a child is born. In...
Children’s Institute has joined health experts and advocates from across the country to fight Trump administration efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In an amicus brief filed last Friday, 36 organizations and leaders,...
Advocates for children’s mental health envision a comprehensive network of supports for children and families that begins with mothers at the prenatal stage and continues throughout an individual’s lifetime. That's reflective of continuing research which...
In the 20 years since the first study into Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), health care professionals, educators, and policy makers have become increasingly aware of the long-term consequences of exposure to adversity on children's health and development. As...
It’s a gorgeous summer evening in Yoncalla, Oregon and community members are gathered on the high school football field to kick-off the start of the school year with a celebratory barbecue. A band is playing, children are running at full speed in no particular...
This week, children across Oregon and the country are returning to school: meeting new teachers, learning new routines, and navigating new friendships and group dynamics. This can be overwhelming, especially for our youngest students who are still learning how to...
The Early Link Podcast is moving to the radio! We're excited to join the Podcast Co-Op hosted by the Portland Radio Project (PRP). We'll be airing new episodes on the second and fourth Sundays of the month at 4:30pm. In our first episode for PRP, we traveled to...
According to "Out of Sight, Out of Mind? What Is the True US Maternal Mortality Rate? No One Knows," a report issued this month from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, maternal mortality rates are higher in the United States than in any other developed...
This year, Oregon passed the Student Success Act: a new annual $1 billion public investment in education. Twenty percent of this budget—nearly $200 million per year—will go toward early childhood programs and services. This new funding is in addition to existing...
