The ecological world-view is a human-centered, integrity based, open, diverse (culturally diverse in beliefs and practices while adapting the universal human rights), multi-level, multi-generational, and ongoing flow of ever evolving human relationships
To build on this theory, Baby Gazette sets the following as its mission:
 Baby Gazette's Mission
Fostering the well-being and full-health of young children and their families across the world, especially during the critical period in their young lives, using concepts emerging from the science of human development, ecology and systems complexity and adaptability.
(In this statement, “health” is meant to include physical, social, psychological, mental and emotional, and intellectual development of young children relating to the prenatal and postnatal (birth to five): THE CRITICAL PERIOD.”
The defining feature of human baby is his/her complex, and adaptive quality, which emerges through the interactions with his/her human environment: the complex systems who are primary caregivers. In turn, the young child's interactions with these complex systems influence his/her well-being and full health.
On-going feedback loops flow at every level; constantly adapting and evolving. The flow of these loops is the foundation of the young child's “self-regulation."
Scientists of human behaviors tell us that in systems such as vulnerable young children, small changes of the flow can have major and long-lasting effects. When the flow of interactions and relationships is enhanced, the level and quality of growth and development, adaptability and creativity of the system are also enhanced.
Human behavior scientists also tell us that another major component for growth and development of the human baby's complex system is the diversity of quality experiences and relationships. Baby Gazette connects the complex systems of traditional feats and meaningful ideas while cultivates practical, useful and adaptable mental models to fit the needs of the families with young children in an ecologically appropriate manner.
Baby Gazette has adopted Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) trusting the interactions and relationships among the units rather than the control from the top/center as the foundation for information flow, creativity, adaptability, growth, and sustainability.
Baby Gazette's Goals and Objectives
Baby Gazette's Goals and Objectives are manifold, including the following components (alphabetically ordered):
 Advocacy
Experiences teach us that relationships between people and between systems play a principal role in choices and decisions we make. This emphasizes the significance of relationships with individuals as decision makers for those who cannot, for instance, young children. These decisions affect the lives of others as we connect to each other, as they influence and affect the lives of the next generation.
In the absence of nurturing and inconsistency of the significant adults in the young child's life, major concepts of sympathetic response to other humans’ tragedies, and empathic understanding and reactions to others’ pain, traumatic experiences and suffering often fail to develop. Consequently, the next generation is placed at risk for repeating the negative cycle of loss of resiliency, trust, reliance and belief in the primary sources of care and support.
Baby Gazette's Network Members are all working on one way or another, to support, nurture, educate, mentor and serve; incorporate concepts of complexity into adaptability, human nature, and intervention modalities serving the identified needs of young children and their caregivers.
Encourage advocacy on behalf of young children around the world and support universality of their human rights: to be born healthy, raised in a safe and nurturing environment with equal access to quality health care and education.
 Health Promotion and Preventive Intervention
While the progress appears rapidly in science and technology, complexity of human relationships has increased drastically, as level of communication between us and quality of our health and well-being has decreased dramatically.
Despite advances in health technology and science, fabricated and natural patterns of diseases of civilization, subjugation to maltreatment (abuses, neglect, abandonment, violence such as war crimes), and violation of their human rights continue to haunt our young children around the world.
Implementation of health promotion and preventive intervention modality could correct this cycle for the next generations. To do so, we must be able to identify the nexus involved in all levels of our relationships early.
 Human Rights
Societal and organizational elements such as poverty, lack of access to adequate health and education, stifle freedom of thought and creativity of a child by denying the individual child to grow and develop to his/her full potential, which equates to denying the child's human rights.
Access to available and appropriate health care to maintain full health and well being of each individual is his/her birthright. Social and environmental barriers preventing access to health care resources must be identified, acknowledged, and prevented through collective efforts of all involved.
Baby Gazette's Network Members focus on the accessibility and maintenance of health and well-being of young children as their human rights.
 Education
Baby Gazette's Network Members are created to facilitate communication of ideas among individuals from groups of professionals of various disciplines, care providers, and all those who work on behalf of young children. Interactions among all those interested in learning, discovering and growing together takes place through ongoing interactions, sharing new ideas and creative approaches to generate opportunities and work through challenging issues facing our young children and their future.
This goal is achieved if we take the following steps:
- Increase awareness of the policy makers on the significance and cost-effectiveness of health promotion and early childhood intervention.
- Expand ecologically based information and the knowledge obtained through theory, research, and practices relating to the prenatal and postnatal (birth to five): THE CRITICAL Periods.
- Provide information on resources, training and educational opportunities around the globe for caregivers/parents, and care providers/early childhood professionals to facilitate the realization of the significant impacts of early childhood in human development and encourage healthy choices.
- Raise awareness about the plights of young children and their families – especially among the indigenous populations – at risk for and exposed to various chronic and multigenerational violence that are suffering around the world, and facilitate change through a collective voice. Study nexus and risk factors contributing during the CRITICAL Period.
 Collaboration, Linking, and Partnership
Competition blocks collaboration and partnership. Agencies involved in service delivery which remain rigid, inflexible and territorial, shall waste energy, time and resources, duplicating activities leaving the goals unfulfilled.
Baby Gazette plans to strengthen and expand relationships among its Network Members of the professionals across the globe; support, and promote partnership, collaboration and networking by bridging among professionals from various disciplines – heath care, human rights, legal, governmental and non-governmental agencies concerned with promoting optimal development of young children and their families around the world.
Baby Gazette's Network Members are guided by the perspective of connectivity and partnership universally, and therefore place a great emphasis on developing relationships and communication, and bringing together theoreticians, researchers and practitioners for the betterment of life for young children during the Critical Period, by presenting field-related reports on recent scientific research findings, Promising Practices and preventive interventions.
The Network Members believe in power of individual to self-organize. While acknowledging the great impact of the whole, trusting that each step of each unit is making major effects.
Research
Collaboration and teamwork among professions and caregivers with similar ideas, and objectives safeguarding well-being and full health of young children and their caregivers can elicit creative approaches to reach the shared goal.
Baby Gazette's Network Members intend to promote and engage in scientifically oriented studies on testing the effectiveness of the theory-based intervention processes and procedures, and outcomes. Baby Gazette is the mean of distribution of information regarding these studies to its readers globally.
Intervention
Western medical model is based on findings of scientific research, and is adopted both to care for physiological as well as psychological domains. It is ‘dis-ease’ oriented, and depends on the accurate diagnosis, identification and classification of the symptoms “disorder” and “impairment.” This in turn, sets the foundation for the treatment and amelioration of psychological disorders. This disease oriented intervention model considers the manifestation of the physiological and psychological symptoms of the survivors as deficit.
Baby Gazette's Network Members follow through and recommend the following steps to assure an appropriate intervention process:
- Promote health and wellbeing of young children and their caregivers by securing a well-rounded pre, and post-natal health care, focused on preventive procedures and measures.
- Explore and implement promising, and evidence-based intervention modalities, from prevention, early detection, and treatment, to outcome evaluation spectrum Review.
- Review, and screen through the capacity of available and accessible health services for young children and their families, in search of a service delivery system that is relationship based, family centered, child safety focused, culturally sensitive health services paradigm.
- Express appreciation for culturally based practices and cultural competence, and respect for diversity and international cooperation among individuals concerned with promoting universal optimal health and well-being of young children and their families.
- Promote Best Practice Guidelines as a resource for health professionals (mental, physical, and otherwise) serving children in their Critical Periods, including but not limited to screening/intake, evaluation/ assessment and treatment modalities, outcome evaluation, and program sustainability
About the Baby Gazette Newsletter
- Baby Gazette brings you a Brief Article written by the editor, or one of our multidisciplinary multicultural Network Members.
- News Briefs segment includes field-related reports on key policy statements, recent scientific research findings, and Promising Practices.
- Announcements on new and upcoming resources, trainings and educational opportunities, as well as related professional service announcements around the globe will be included Just for Your Information.
- Emerging concept is the Baby Gazette partners. You are able to reach them just by clicking on the identifier of the given site.
Baby Gazette is a free-for-subscription educational newsletter. You will be able to subscribe, unsubscribe, and access the archive for the past issues.
Baby Gazette is set based on respect for human rights and integrity, openness to various ideas and diversity.
|
