Transdisciplinary Early Learning Science & Child Policy

Early childhood is both effective and efficient as a point of early intervention; children’s trajectories of health and well-being can be improved dramatically, at a relatively lower cost, for their lifetime outcomes. Leveraging deep understanding across relevant disciplines, experts collaborating in teams are best equipped to address challenges facing children and their families. We will train you to be one of these needed experts, working in transdisciplinary teams, to develop, analyze, and advocate for policies that integrate developmental science related to the complexity of influences and dynamic interactions experienced by children in their diverse contexts to support their development and learning. The Transdisciplinary Early Learning Science & Child Policy (TELS&CP) Program is part of The Early Childhood Policy in Institutions of Higher Education (ECPIHE) Initiative and the Early Childhood Policy Network.

Leveraging the wide-ranging expertise at Berkeley, we offer a truly transdisciplinary early childhood policy program certificate—creating innovative training experiences that build the essential knowledge and skills you need to connect science to policy. This includes learning to work in teams to leverage actionable insights from research to inform child policy, as well as skills for using these insights—to design, analyze, implement, evaluate, and communicate effective child policy. The Transdisciplinary Early Learning Science & Child Policy Graduate Certificate will enrich your area of study and give you hands-on skills for working with or on behalf of young children.

The certificate also provides opportunities that may include:

• A National Early Childhood Policy Fellowship

• A Washington DC Early Childhood Policy Trip 

• Monthly Early Childhood Policy Speaker Series

• Membership on the TELS&CP Student Advisory Board

• Potential research grants to conduct interdisciplinary work

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