Raising Emotionally Healthy and Resilient Children: Consciously Connecting with Kids

Healthy Kids

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

Growing Pains  Many people assume that superior intelligence or ability is a key to success. But more than three decades of research shows that an overemphasis on intellect or talent—and the implication that such traits are innate and fixed—leaves people vulnerable to failure, fearful of challenges and unmotivated to learn.  Teaching people to have a “growth mind-set,” which encourages a focu...

PALette: Connecting Kids through Tangible Color-Mixing

We introduce PALette, a tangible color-mixing and drawing interface that enables the mixing of digital paint through physical actions. We sought to create a system that will allow children to express their collaborative creativity while also facilitating “thinking through doing.” In addition, we wanted a system that would provide remote collaboration and could be used across language barriers s...

Resilient, Green… and Healthy

The environmental health field has been swept by major changes in recent years. One was the rediscovery of the " built environment " as a key determinant of human health. Community design—including land use and transportation decisions, but extending to such arenas as energy, housing, and food—affects outcomes as diverse as cardiovascular health, respiratory heath, cancer, injury risk, and soci...

Los Angeles Healthy Kids Improves Access to Care for Young Children Early Results from the Healthy Kids Evaluation

The Healthy Kids program was launched in Los Angeles County in July 2003 with funding from First 5 LA. The program aims to extend universal coverage to children in families with incomes below 300 percent of the federal poverty level by insuring children ineligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy Families. Initially designed to cover children under age 6, Healthy Kids obtained additional financing and e...