Sentences with phrase «as an advocacy agency»

As an advocacy agency we have worked with many school districts on this very issue.

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In this area of law, prosecutors work closely with experts in this field as part of a multi-disciplinary team, which includes law enforcement, social services, child advocacy centers, medical and mental health providers, the school system and many other partner agencies.

Through monitoring and advocacy, the association works with agencies such as the TTB and the FDA to reduce the regulatory burdens on small and independent brewers.

Working tirelessly on behalf of children's safety issues for more than a decade, Pattie served as Community Outreach Director for the national child advocacy agency, Parents For Megan's Law, and is certified as both a C hild Visitation Monitor and Child Safety Educator.

At Save the Children, she built a media program in a newly created public affairs department, and led the U.S. agency's media response to major humanitarian crises, including post-9 / 11, the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Haiti Earthquake as well as the agency's first advocacy - awareness campaign, Every Mother, Every Child and its signature research report, The State of the World's Mothers.

While this agenda item must compete with those of various other agencies and advocacy organizations jockeying for program funding at the end of the budget season, the potential risks of shuttering nonprofits could be particularly devastating across the city, as has been demonstrated recently.

The staffers include Ben Kalish, the group's former director of development, who has left to work at the Fortune Society, and Jamin Sewell, the firm's director of lobbying and government relations, who has left to serve as counsel and managing director of policy and advocacy at the Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies.

But news of the additional reform measures emerged as good - government advocacy groups blasted other gubernatorial proposals to create Cuomo - appointed inspectors general overseeing state agencies, the SUNY and CUNY systems, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the State Education Department.

As the accrediting agency for Children's Advocacy Centers across the country, the National Children's Alliance awards various levels of accreditation and membership to centers responding to allegations of child abuse in ways that are effective and efficient, and put the needs of child victims of abuse first.

The Executive Director, Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, Dr. Clement Nwankwo, said that the interference of the security agencies as it was recorded in the governorship election in Edo State and the December 10, 2017 rerun election in Rivers State was worrisome and unacceptable.

Advocacy groups use them, as do the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the United Nations.

«This case perfectly illustrates why President Trump had to order executive agencies to affirm religious freedom, because park officials specifically targeted Dr. Snelling's religious faith as the reason to stop his research,» said Gary McCaleb, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian nonprofit advocacy and legal group that is representing Snelling in the suit.

Advance and promote the discipline by participating in partnerships with government agencies, foundations, and / or nonprofit organizations, such as funding agency grant panels or other advocacy / advisory boards to contribute to the advancement and promotion of the discipline.

As a Stakeholder, Cynthia's life is personally and professionally entrenched in epilepsy education, advocacy and fundraising for both the community agency and Matthew's Friends Canada.

HDP graduates are putting their Harvard degree and experience to work at all levels of the education sector — public and independent schools, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies — as well as pursuing careers in public health, social services, child advocacy, and social policy.

Serve as a national representative for elementary and middle - school education to Congress, the Executive Branch, state and federal agencies, the news media, researchers, educators, and other education and child advocacy groups;

Josh Crosson currently serves as the senior policy director for Ed Allies — a local education advocacy nonprofit that improves public policy through the Minnesota Legislature, the Governor's office, and relevant government agencies.

Serve as a national representative for elementary and middle school education to Congress, the Executive Branch, state and federal agencies, the news media, researchers, educators, and other education and child advocacy groups;

The purpose of the Executive Order is to ensure that regulatory agencies and the SBA Office of Advocacy work closely together as early as possible in the regulatory drafting process to address disproportionate impacts on small entities and appropriately reduce their regulatory burden.

Walmart and McDonald's have come under fire recently as well, but why are consumer groups and workers» advocacy agencies targeting individual corporations rather than enacting change across the board?

In what is sure to be viewed as a stigma - erasing coup for indie authors, book discovery and indie advocacy site IndieReader announced its partnership today with one of the most well - known and respected literary agencies, Dystel & Godrich Literary Management.

Last week, we addressed plans for a national community advocacy agency to «call out» the practice of investor overlays as discriminatory against minority borrowers.

Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.

Previous research on the number of animals living in various environments, as well as statistics compiled by governments and other agencies, can be used to determine how many animals are directly targeted by most types of animal advocacy.

NEW YORK (AP)-- For all its 147 years, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been more than an advocacy group; it has served as the primary law enforcement agency for animal abuse and neglect in New York City.

Neither did I see yet that Winograd had formed the No Kill Advocacy Center as the hub of what might be called a fundamentalist no - kill cult, around which would revolve a constellation of «crazy cat ladies,» «rescue angels,» «pit pushers,» dog - and - cat breeders, other chronic critics of humane institutions with their own hidden economic agendas, and animal hoarders, for whom the sole criteria by which animal shelters and animal control agencies are to be judged is the «live release rate.»

Diversion Dive Travel agency announced as the dive travel partner of Diveplanit — the dive content marketing and ocean advocacy group

The letter, widely cast as signifying a «rebellion,» complains about the agency's «unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change.»

The Panel is actively involved in communicating on advocacy issues, current research, as well as educating government agencies and the public on health, safety and environmental arising from the production, use, storage, transportation and disposal of hydrogen peroxide.

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The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change includes individuals as well as Alliance for South Asian Aids Prevention, Asian Community Aids Services, Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support), Caregiver Connections Education and Support Organization, Caregivers Action Centre, Durham Region Migrant Solidarity Network, FCJ Refugee House, Fuerza Puwersa, GABRIELA Ontario, IAVGO Community Legal Clinic, Income Security Advocacy Centre, Justice for Migrant Workers, Migrante Ontario, No One Is Illegal — Toronto, Northumberland Community Legal Centre, OCASI — Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, OHIP For All, PCLS Community Legal Clinic, SALCO Community Legal Clinic, Students Against Migrant Exploitation, Social Planning Toronto, UFCW, UNIFOR, Workers Action Centre and Workers United.

The appellate know - how of our group frequently takes us to other fora, where our skills in persuasive briefing and strong oral advocacy are equally applicable in different closed - record proceedings, such as administrative agency appeals (both state and federal), arbitration appeals, ERISA appeals, and bankruptcy appeals.

In addition to the upper class writing and research requirements, the Writing in Law Practice series offers writing electives covering topics such as advanced appellate advocacy, federal civil litigation, advising government agencies, animal law advocacy, drafting negotiated agreements and pretrial litigation.

«Person» is not limited to natural persons, but includes any type of organization, association or group such as other covered entities, health oversight agencies and advocacy groups.

Our Shanghai office primarily represents business clients in mergers and acquisitions, inbound and outbound investment, commercial contracts, government agency advocacy and controversies, cross-border intellectual property issues, dispute resolution and arbitration, labor and employment, infrastructure, construction, energy projects and customs advocacy throughout China as well as international trade disputes and anti-corruption investigations.

As in recent years, the ICN Conference itself featured set - piece (no Q&A) plenary sessions involving colloquies among top agency officials regarding cartels, unilateral conduct, mergers, advocacy, and agency effectiveness — the areas covered during the year by the ICN's specialized working groups.

• Twenty years of relevant work experience, including program direction, program development, public sector leadership, policy development, advocacy and grant making • Experience running governmental agency and serving as adviser to elected official.

As defined by a Houston victim legal advocacy agency, Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence Fact Sheet: Domestic abuse is a systematic pattern of intentional intimidation that is reinforced by violence or the threat of violence, for the purpose of gaining or maintaining power and control over one's partner.

A state agency known as South Carolina Protection and Advocacy also helps adoptive families manage system issues.

Mr. McGraw works in the areas of policy development, contract management and project coordination, as well as collaborates with grassroots peer - advocacy agencies and the CT Department of Corrections.

Look for organizations that support children, such as adoption agencies, state / provincial, or local foster / adoptive parent associations, child advocacy organizations, adoptive or foster parent support groups, school or community groups, faith - based organizations, state / provincial or local kinship or grandparent groups, children's mental health advocacy groups, and associations supporting children with special needs.

With a specific and relentless focus on the strengths and needs of our communities, and a lens of cultural competence, we serve as a national resource agency providing programs, publications, advocacy and trainings related to early childhood care and education; health and wellness; literacy and family engagement.

Federal agency providing information on educational rights under the law, as well as referrals to the Parent Training Information Center and Protection and Advocacy Agency in each agency providing information on educational rights under the law, as well as referrals to the Parent Training Information Center and Protection and Advocacy Agency in each Agency in each state.

The committee included state agency staff, as well as participants from two - and four - year institutions of higher education, early care and education, health care, mental health, early intervention, public schools, Head Start, parent advocacy, and other fields.

Reduced caseloads enable staff to visit more frequently to be available between scheduled visits and to provide a wider range of support services, such as help with practical tasks (e.g. arranging and keeping appointments with other agencies, negotiating with welfare agencies, general advocacy).

A more reliable consumer financial advocacy agency would bolster real estate professionals» role as trusted advisors to advance tour nation's pursuit of responsible homeownership.

In this scenario, both the seller and the buyer initially enter into an agency relationship with the brokerage as represented by the two licensees because they want and need advice and advocacy to protect and advance their respective interests.

The basic principle of designated agency as proposed by the ATF is that, in the above scenario, both the seller and the buyer in this «in - house» transaction would be able to continue to receive the full benefit of agency representation, complete with the undivided loyalty, advice and advocacy of their respective licensee agents, while it is the brokerage that remains impartial.