Adjusting the Early Childhood Center in the New Normal

Once Thailand entered the 3rd wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, the National Institutes for Child and Family Development, Mahidol University has mobilized the public and educated people on how to prepare the childcare system under the outbreak of the COVID-19. The program: Adjusting the Early Childhood Center in the New Normal aimed to have the nationwide early childcare centers understand about childcare system management within the pandemic situation. The program included a public forum for knowledge sharing, and variety of online courses such as the home-based early childhood education and care under the COVID-19 outbreak, a best practice of surveillance system under new normal situation and taking care of stressful and traumatic children resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak. This program mobilized to the locals such as the Local Organization in different provinces, Schools, and the nationwide Early Childhood Development Centers.