NASW recently partnered with the Committee for Education Funding (CEF) and the Coalition for Health Funding (CHF) to urge House and Senate Appropriators to substantially increase funding in the FY 2011 budget for several line items to include job training programs, Pell Grants, Head Start, and the Child Care and Development Block Grant. To learn more about the federal government’s budget, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ and to review our coalition’s letter to Congress on this issue click here.

How Children Learn to Regulate Their Emotions
“Emotional intelligence is a term used to describe a person’s ability to understand, interpret, express and manage their own emotions, and to navigate interpersonal relationships with awareness, empathy and an appreciation for the emotional experiences of others,”...