Note: This past month the Fresno Cradle to Career Partnership (C2C) released a new White Paper, Social Emotional Learning: A Key to Success in School, Work and Life, that explores the fundamental importance of social and emotional development and the implications for the Central Valley’s future economic and social well-being of the rising tide of children who, beginning during infancy, are failing to meet social and emotional developmental milestones. This month’s issue of OCTM summarizes the findings and recommendations of the White Paper.