Sentences with phrase «african immigrant families»

A new project with African immigrant families is tackling the special challenges they face in raising children.

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Afua Atta - Mensah, executive director of Community Voices Heard and a Working Families Party (WFP) leader, who is the child of Ghanaian immigrants, ran for district leader in Central Harlem in 2015 due to neglect of the West African population and lack of youth engagement.

African American children in immigrant and non-immigrant families had moderate rates of preventive dental utilization and were comparable to each other (e.g. 60 % and 59 %, respectively, in 2010).

In Haneke's formally rigorous, narratively minimalist «Happy End,» multiple generations of a French industrialist family have almost become blind to the working man, a malaise that the two - time Palme d'Or winner suggests creates disconnection not only toward the North African immigrants and other working - class people who wait on them but among each other.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

Chartering empowers thousands of African American families to create a vibrant new public - school sector in Harlem; it liberates a group of Minnesota teachers to start and run their own schools; and it provides a Teach for America alum the freedom to start a network of college - prep charters serving Mexican immigrants in Texas.

Immigrant students from Africa and Mexico can compare family collard recipes with African American students.

Some might try to comfort themselves by saying the problem is limited to large numbers of students from immigrant families, or to African American students and others who have suffered from discrimination.

The report documents Latino, African American, and Muslim children, and children of immigrants, terrified and fighting with peers; reporting slurs and threats from peers that Trump would hurt or kill their families; and asking teachers whether their entire families (even as American citizens) would be deported, walled off or worse by Trump.

Before New York made way for Frederick Law Olmsted's grand Central Park design in 1858, African Americans, along with a few immigrant families, owned property there.

We work with caucasian, African American, men and women of color, black, mixed - race and inter-racial couples and families, latino, hispanic, Asian American (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Philippine), Asian Indian, Native American, Arab, immigrants, Jewish (orthodox, conservative and reform), Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Hinduism, Hindi, Buddhist as well as agnostic and atheist clients.

-- Gay Men Lesbians Bisexuals Transgender Adolescents Transgender Men Transgender Women Genderqueer / Non-Binary Adults Gender Non - Conforming / Gender Creative Children / Adolescents Parents of GLBTQ Children Men Women Older Adults Adolescents Infants / Pre-schoolers Elementary / School - Aged Children Middle School / Pre-teens Young Adults Middle Aged Adults Parents Childfree Adults Immigrants Refugees African - American / Black Latino / Latina / Latinx / Hispanic Southeast Asian Asian / Pacific Islander Arab / Middle Eastern Mixed Race Adoptees Foster Children Foster Parents Christian Muslim Jewish Buddhist Hindu Atheist / Agnostic Spiritual New Age Indigenous / Traditional Religion Military First Responders (Police, Paramedic, Fire Fighter, etc.) Disabled / People with Disabilities Mixed - Orientation Couples Mixed Religion Couples Mixed Race / Cross-Cultural Couples Homeless Adults Homeless Children / Families Working Class / Blue Collar / Tradespeople White Collar Workers Therapists / Counselors