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Promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy
development, love of learning, and joy in living.
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Educates professionals and the public about the life changing discoveries made in the area of prenatal and perinatal psychology and health.
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Promotes social and economic justice in Ontario, through projects that
focus on Early Childhood Education and Development and/or Economic
Justice.
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Promoting parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds
between children and their parents.
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Supports the rights of children to grow up – and the rights of parents to raise them – without being undermined by rampant consumerism.
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CAYC exists to provide a Canadian voice on critical issues related to the quality of life
of all young children and their families.
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FRP Canada promotes the well-being of families by providing national leadership and resources, including the book Positive Discipline by Joan E. Durrant, Ph.D.
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Works to facilitate understanding between economists and ecologists in
pursuit of a vision of a sustainable future.
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Founded by Fritjof Capra, the Center is dedicated to education for sustainable living.
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Partnership is a commitment to a way of living based on harmony with nature, nonviolence, and gender, racial, and economic equity. Co-founded by Riane Eisler and David Loye.
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Promotes the effort to restore not only compassionate thinking but compassionate action to the center of our lives. A call to bring the world together.
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Promotes children's rights education in Canada.
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Educates industry, consumers and policy makers about the challenges and
solutions to global climate change
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Works to prevent commercial culture from exploiting children.
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CECD envisions a national system of early child development that reflects the critical importance of life-long health, learning and behaviour for every Canadian and that provides every child with equity from the start and equitable outcomes later in life.
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Working to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world
that sustains us.
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Conceived and promoted by Riverside School in India, this innovative contest offers children around the world an opportunity to children’s ‘design’ solutions for the world’s greatest challenges.
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A research organization based in Washington, D.C. that uses the power of information to protect human, and in particular, children's health and the environment.
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Natural play spaces for children.
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Educates professionals and the public about the life changing discoveries made in the area of prenatal and perinatal psychology and health.
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A non-partisan, cross-sectoral coalition of 90 partner groups from across BC who are committed to promoting children's rights and improving their health and well-being.
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Children helping children through education.
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Greening our schools - transformative education for sustainability.
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The world renowned evolutionary economist and sustainable development expert.
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HELP makes a unique international research contribution to understanding the biological, psychological and societal factors influencing children's health and development.
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Working for a healthy, just and sustainable future for all children.
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ISSA helps ensure a healthy start for chidren in many countries.
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These research reviews conclude that the physical (corporal) punishment of
children and youth plays no useful role in their upbringing and poses only
risks to their development.
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The human race is now contaminated with hundreds of industrial chemicals, with babies being born pre-polluted carrying as many as 300 toxins in their bodies when they enter the world.
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Help and information about mothering through breastfeeding.
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Fosters discussion and research on issues related to children's rights.
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Developing partnerships that strengthen public education in Canada.
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Provides an institutional home for a broad range of activities illuminating the Nobel laureate's life and the movements he inspired.
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Both a philosophy of child development and and a rationale for guiding
such growth.
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Dedicated to mobilizing the gigantic political strength of mothers (and
others) to ensure the health, education and safety of every child, not
just a privileged few.
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Brings diverse not-for-profit organizations together in a collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the well-being of children and youth in Canada. NACY provides leadership and knowledge dedicated to mobilizing and linking practice and research to policy development.
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National Association for Education for Young Children.
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The term The Great Turning has come into widespread use to describe the awakening of a higher level of human consciousness and a human turn from an era of violence against people and nature to a new era of peace, justice and environmental restoration.
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Founded in 2000 by Gloria DeGaetano, the PCI uses its innovative coaching model to co-create with parents solutions to parenting challenges, leading to new levels of family fulfillment.
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A Canadian initiative established by a teacher whose son died as a result
of a bullying incident.
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The science and spirit of nurturing healthiest human
development from pre-conception / pre-adoption, and our
inner development as parents, teachers and caregivers.
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Working to create villages that develop their communities by developing their children.
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An initiative to retire Ronald McDonald. For nearly 50 years no one has been better at
hooking kids on unhealthy food, spurring an epidemic of diet-related disease.
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Located in Ahemedabad, India, Riverside is a vibrant research center for school education, where insights from cutting-edge research are turned into working models of pedagogical practices with a single-minded focus: student wellbeing.
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Founded by Jane Goodall –
a youth driven global network of tens of thousands
of young people in almost 100 countries, showing care
and
concern for people, animals, and the environment.
Raffi’s song “Roots & Shoots Everywhere” was written
for this organization.
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An evidence-based classroom program that has shown
dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression
and violence among school children while raising
social/emotional competence and increasing empathy.
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Helps deliver clean water in developing countries.
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Committed to developing a diverse, well-trained
grassroots network to protect the integrity of
our global ecosystems.
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Offers educators and parents opportunities to learn research-proven ways to motivate learning.
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Working toward a world where major decisions affecting people and the environment are based on the public interest, not on maximizing corporate profits
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Builds the capacity of parents and communities throughout British Columbia so that children 0-6 can be: healthy, safe and secure, socially engaged and responsible, and successful learners.
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A comprehensive collection of wellness writings and resources, presented by John W. Travis, MD, MPH. A site designed to stretch your thinking and open your heart.
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Caring for Tibetan children living in India.
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A universal early learning and care program model.
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Working with the principles of sustainability and social justice, Toxic Free Canada promotes healthy workplaces, homes and communities.
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Helping children around the world.
- Supports Unicef's work for children in more than 150 countries and territories and builds awareness among Canadians about the issues facing the world's children.
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Education of the Whole Child.
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A documentary that explores the consciousness of infants,
and a community that supports infant parenting.
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Promotes helping very young children learn peaceful ways to resolve conflict, supports meaningful, tv-free day care programming, and encourages home caregivers to see themselves as educators.
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Supports the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and
their families.