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SUMMER CHALLENGE programs help reduce «summer slide,» a loss of academic skills that students may experience in July and August.

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Wake Forest University, for example, has developed a group mentoring program for its alumni in several cities, helping them learn to cope with challenges in their professional and personal spheres.

Prevent works in much the same way the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program works — a group of people (12, in Omada's case) take classes, engage in challenges, and generally support one another with the help of a health coach for several months to a year, with the goal of losing 7 % body weight and preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes.

But this service's multibillion - dollar annual outlay for new programming necessitates another challenge: helping each program get discovered by the subscribers most likely to enjoy it.

Despite its flaws, however, the program has paid off — at least according to a 2010 study by Queen's University economics professor Roger Ware, which concluded it contributed roughly $ 2 billion a year to Canada's economy and helped ease economic challenges.

Now startups are looking at ways to help companies deliver wellness programs through those consumer technologies, and at games and challenges that will help employees meet their wellness goals.

Fortunately, for everyone that is part of The Goal Standard Challenge — an exclusive five - week program from Entrepreneur.com designed to help achieve your goals — we have plenty of top - notch experts, worksheets, support and resources at your disposal, helping you through this difficult time.

You completed the first week of The Goal Standard Challenge, our five - week program to help you achieve your goals for 2017.

Barbara has joined the Canon Maxify Mentors program and is helping entrepreneurs navigate the challenges associated with launching and building a business.

Although the loan guarantee program is only one of many things the SBA does to help small businesses, because they recognize that access to capital is a big challenge for many of the businesses they serve, they've made some recent changes that portend a positive impact for small businesses.

A performing arts program for teens in foster care, service dogs for children with disabilities and a global effort to help children in extreme poverty are among the 27 charities that will receive a $ 25,000 grant as winners of the Upstanders Challenge.

These programs have helped larger institutional investors efficiently access the opportunity set, which, in addition to being overlooked, tends to feature smaller funds that are more challenging for these larger institutions to deploy capital into.

In response, governments, including the Government of Canada, have designed export assistance programs to help SMEs overcome these challenges.

Previous investors were led by Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, which provided $ 1 million through a Transition to Scale investment and helped catalyze matching investments from a wide range of sources including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation, the University of Toronto's Connaught Seed Fund, the Government of Canada through the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC - IRAP) and the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive Program (SR&ED), and the Government of Ontario through investment by Ontario Centres of Excellence and support by MaRS Discovery District and ventureLAB / Genesis.

Now if one were challenged to give, say, a thousand dollars to programs that actually feed the hungry, one might, with the help of friends, try to come up with the money.

Innovative life enrichment and marriage renewal programs in our churches, schools, and social agencies can help mid-years persons confront the challenge and the choices, the pain and the possibilities, and from this confrontation begins the adventure of new growth.

Through our SmartSource program, we help businesses analyze their supply chain, better understand their sourcing risks and develop solutions to address their specific challenges.

The Organic Trade Association is working with the USDA to create a Certified Transition label program that will help farmers market their crops during the three - year transition to organic, since this is one of the biggest challenges to increasing organic farming.

The Onboarding Program helps growers get through this, it also helps growers prepare for audits and fast tracks their understanding about running a certified organic business as well as overcoming practical farming challenges.

OAL's System Integrator program is designed to educate and produce qualified partners who can help solve production challenges by advising on and delivering the best solution with the lowest amount of risk.

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The parent of three highly gifted daughters of her own (one with learning challenges), throughout her career, Carolyn has designed innovative strategies, as well as unique programs to help gifted students achieve life success.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

Find child care and other early learning programs, learn how to keep your child healthy, and get help with responding to a child's challenging behaviors.

The Seal of Approval program is designed to continue the efforts of The National Parenting Center, which was chartered in 1989 to help create better informed parents as they tackle the challenges and enjoy the many rewards of parenting.

They promote academically challenging program to help the kids explore new ideas.

After years of helping children with behavioral and social challenges, the experts at Brain Balance Achievement Centers have developed a cutting - edge (and drug - free) program combining sensory motor stimulation, academic exercises, and nutrition to correct brain imbalance and improve achievement.

«We want to help these and all innovators who participate in the TECH Challenges to succeed — stimulating the marketplace and raising the bar for sports safety,» said Barry Myers, MD, PhD, MBA, Director of Innovation Duke CTSI, Coulter Program Director and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and a consultant to the NFL Players Association (NFLPA).

Through programs like Salad Bars to Schools it's like someone is saying to you, «We know you have a challenge, let us help,» rather than being critical to what you are doing.»

Check out the Ohio School Breakfast Challenge website for ideas and resources to help you customize your school breakfast program to the needs of your school and increase breakfast participation, including:

Mass Audubon's Shaping the Future of Your Community program will coordinate with stakeholders to identify key challenges that decision - makers face and help communities better balance and target conservation and development.

In the absence of increased funding, this agreement eases operational challenges and provides school meal programs critical flexibility to help them plan healthy school meals that appeal to students.»

The program increases the number of fathers that contribute financially and emotionally to their children and improves their marriage - ability by helping the men successfully overcome the challenges that have led to their non-payment of child support.

Many sports programs, such as Special Olympics, Little League Challenger Division, TOPSoccer and at the YMCA, can help your child to be physically active while also meeting new friends who have similar challenges.

Through our study skills program, we can help your son or daughter take on these challenges with confidence and ease.

You can also show support for their efforts by asking them about any challenges they continue to face in implementing a healthy meal program — and how parents can help.

In response to this, researchers and clinicians from Stanford University developed a program called Challenge Success to raise awareness, advocate for family time and downtime, and give parents tools and guidelines to help address some of these issues.

EL Education is a research - based program that helps schools work with emotionally or behaviorally challenged students in therapeutic ways, then provides curriculum allowing students more autonomy and challenge.

NAYS now offers free online program for members to help them work with youngsters dealing with ADHD, depression and other mental health challenges.

Let your child know that you think school is important by helping your child with homework challenges, volunteering at the school, or supporting the school through fundraising programs, at sporting events or by chaperoning dances or field trips.

Recognizing that working long hours in a new and intensely challenging environment can also pose challenges to balancing work and home life, a number of programs are in place at Floating Hospital to help ease the transition from student to pediatric specialist.

Whether you are a nurse on the postpartum floor caring for families in the tender newborn period, a Healthy Family home visitor educating families one on one, or a WIC Certifier working with young families to help them gain skills for confident parenting, the topics covered in the New Parent Educator program will inspire and equip you to both challenge and comfort new and expectant parents.

Programs like the Healthier US School Challenge help to promote healthier schools and healthier kids.

Active Parenting Publishers provides video - based parenting courses and parenting programs to help parents rear responsible children who are able to cope with life's challenges.

The chronic underfunding of the National School Lunch Program creates ongoing challenges that highly processed, «better for you» school junk food can help meet.

Find early learning programs, learn how to keep your child healthy, and get help dealing with challenging behaviors.

A program at Massachusetts General Hospital that teaches adults a revolutionary and evidence - based approach to helping challenging kids.

She offers four coaching programs to help parents find the tools they need to address challenges with their children, as well as to help empower them in their own special needs parenting journey.

Pew conducts original research and analyses to help policymakers understand local policy challenges, from providing healthy school lunches for children to designing retirement programs for public employees.

A 2015 KSHF - commissioned series of case studies of 19 schools in seven states explored the effects of these federal kitchen equipment grants on students and meal programs and found that equipment bought with these funds helped many schools overcome challenges reported in the 2013 study.