Learn about the Care for Child Development from the professionals implementing it
Series of videos where professionals across the region share their experiences with CCD in their daily work
- Available in:
- Español
- English
The Care for Child Development (CCD) approach has been implemented in 11 countries in the region, primarily through training professionals who work directly with families.
We invite you to watch this series of videos with different countries’ experiences working with CCD and their lessons learned. Listen to experts sharing their first-hand testimonies on how CCD has impacted their work and relations with families and its effects on children.
Candy Azueta, a physician at the Hospital Regional de Occidente in Belmopán, talks about her experience implementing the CCD approach in her work with children and their families.
Dr. Azueta explains the recommendations she provides to parents in her office as we watch her work with the Navarro and Colindres families. She says the most inspiring aspect of working with CCD is seeing how interactions between parents and their children improve and children make remarkable progress.
Available with subtitles in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Guadalupe de Romero is a maternal and child health professional at the Maternal and Child Care and Nutrition Center (CIAMIN) in San Julián, El Salvador. She tells us about her experience applying the CCD approach in her work from prenatal care to postpartum counseling, offering parents recommendations on the importance of play and communication.
Guadalupe highlights her role as a counselor in promoting caregivers’ participation in their children’s development.
Available with subtitles in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Physiatrist Neris Galeano describes how she applies the CCD approach in Los Pipitos, an association of parents of children with disabilities in Nicaragua.
Neris works with families to include play in their daily routines and supports them with strategies to strengthen communication with their children, considering each child’s challenges and abilities.
Available with subtitles in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Dr. Cornelia Thomas Bailey recounts her experience working with families, giving them suggestions for bonding with their babies.
One of the aspects she highlights is how it improves the relationship between babies and their caregivers and the new meaning that the CCD approach gives to her work.
Available with subtitles in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Pediatrician Marlene Estigarribia talks about her experience with the CCD approach in her work at the Luque General Hospital in Paraguay.
Dr. Marlene emphasizes that implementing the CCD approach is not an additional burden for professionals; on the contrary, it helps transform how they work and motivates them to continue improving their performance.
Available with subtitles in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Nurse Berita Sifuentes Rejigo shares her experience implementing the CCD approach at the Shirambari health post in Pucallpa, Peru.
Berita describes how the CCD approach has transformed her daily work and how much she enjoys seeing the changes in families when they practice the recommendations regarding play and communication.
Available with subtitles in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Neonatologist Cleotilde Matos explains her experience applying the CCD in the Mother Kangaroo Care program at Los Mina Hospital in the Dominican Republic.
Dr. Matos points out that the Mother Kangaroo Care program helped reduce premature babies’ mortality and, together with the CCD approach, improves newborns’ comprehensive development.
Available with subtitles in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Family therapist Lourdes Pérez explains that her experience applying the CCD approach has improved relationships and communication among families with young children and has transformed and enriched her professional practice.
Lourdes claims that it has been easy to include the CCD approach in her work and it has significantly impacted families, who can now communicate better with their children and participate in their development.
Available with subtitles in Spanish, French and Portuguese.