Overview
- Hosted by Tec de Monterrey’s Centro de Primera Infancia with Fundación FEMSA, the III Foro convened regional and global institutions to advance an intersectoral approach that centers caregiver wellbeing.
- The RAPID Survey will begin in Colonia Independencia with 300 families in its first deployment outside the United States, providing real‑time insight into caregiver stress, material hardship, safety, health access, and parent‑child interaction.
- Findings from RAPID are intended to inform public decisions by capturing conditions affecting young children and those who care for them in local contexts.
- Organizers highlighted a new regional certificate on early childhood policy developed with Universidad de los Andes and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile to strengthen evidence‑based program design.
- Participants committed to a shared 10‑year agenda that translates interdisciplinary research into sustained systems change across Latin America, with government representatives such as Tamaulipas signaling alignment with the effort.