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Vol. 23. Núm. 2.
Páginas 135-143 (Agosto 2014)
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Better Beginnings, Better Futures: Theory, research, and knowledge transfer of a community-based initiative for children and families
Better Beginnings, Better Futures [a mejor comienzo, mejor futuro]: teoría, investigación y transferencia de conocimientos de una iniciativa comunitaria con niños y familias
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S. Kathleen Wortona,
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wort4840@mylaurier.ca

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, Rachel Caplana,
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capl0410@mylaurier.ca

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, Geoffrey Nelsona,
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gnelson@wlu.ca

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, S. Mark Pancera, Colleen Loomisa, Ray DeV. Petersb, Karen Haywardc
a Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
b Queen's University, Canada
c Better Beginnings Research Group, Canada
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Better Beginnings, Better Futures is an early childhood initiative focused on promoting healthy development of children and families in economically disadvantaged communities. The Better Beginnings approach is ecological and holistic, community-driven, integrated with existing community services and supports, and universally available to children aged 4-8 within communities in which it is offered. The Better Beginnings initiative effectively illustrates the concept of wellness as fairness through its efforts to create more just social conditions and its connection to both procedural and distributive justice, the two principles of fairness outlined by Prilleltensky (2012). Through the development of programs that support children, parents, families, and the community as a whole, Better Beginnings initiatives are able to promote children's development by building community capacity to create healthy and positive environments for children. This paper provides an overview of the Better Beginnings, Better Futures initiative from its outset in 1990 to the present, with a view towards examining the ways in which knowledge generated from such initiatives can be transferred to other communities.

Keywords:
Prevention
Early childhood development
Evaluation
Knowledge transfer
Evidence-based
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Better Beginnings, Better Futures [a mejor comienzo, mejor futuro] es una iniciativa dirigida a la primera infancia para fomentar el desarrollo de la salud de niños y familias en comunidades económicamente desfavorecidas. El enfoque Better Beginnings es ecológico, holístico, impulsado por la comunidad, integrado en los servicios y el apoyo existentes en la comunidad y de acceso universal para niños de entre 4 y 8 años en aquellas comunidades a las que se ofrece. Esta iniciativa ilustra meridianamente el concepto de bienestar como justicia a través de su esfuerzo por crear unas condiciones sociales más justas y su relación tanto con la justicia procedimental como con la distributiva, los dos principios descritos por Prilleltensky (2012). Mediante la puesta en marcha de programas de apoyo a niños, padres, familias y comunidad como un todo, estas iniciativas pueden impulsar el desarrollo de los niños al crear la capacidad comunitaria para potenciar entornos saludables y positivos para los niños. Este trabajo presenta una descripción de la iniciativa Better Beginnings, Better Futures desde su arranque en 1990 hasta la actualidad, con la vista puesta en el análisis de las distintas maneras de traspasar los conocimientos surgidos de estas iniciativas a otras comunidades.

Palabras clave:
Prevención
Desarrollo temprano del niño
Evaluación
Transferencia de conocimientos Empírico
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