Research suggests international coproductions of Sesame Street and other children’s media programs are linked to positive impact on how viewers perceive themselves and their own cultures, as well as how they perceive others.
AÇEV has partnered with the Blue Butterfly Collaborate and First6Years to develop innovative early childhood development educational media programs.
The MIFC initiative combines cartoon media messages around diversity with an early years’ program to promote positive attitudes on the physical, social and cultural differences among young children, practitioners and parents.
The Father Support Program (FSP) aims to contribute to children’s development through addressing the parenting skills and attitudes of fathers, and increasing community awareness and action on the role of men.
Research confirms that when fathers become more involved in parenting – and in working with mothers as co-parents and partners – healthier parents, children, and families are the outcome. Learn more about SFIs innovation in research and intervention.
Learn why peacebuilding improves the quality of UNICEF’s programs in conflict-affected areas and builds capacities for more cohesive, peaceful societies.
Learn why fathers matter and how their engagement in intervention, prevention and research efforts improve the wellbeing of their young children and households.
In recent years, the notion of Resilience has grown into an important concept for both scholars and practitioners working around the globe. Learn why resilience offers the promise of a paradigm shift in many fields of research, clinical practice, and policy.
Given the promise of early parent-child programs to build more peaceful and socially cohesive homes and communities, researchers have been actively examining the basic biological building blocks of attachment, social engagement, and group formation and their interface with our stress response circuits.
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