Sentences with phrase «extended support groups»

Extended support groups, both online and off, are sometimes referred to as «mama tribes».

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Adopt a Unit's mission extends from partnering with veteran service organizations to hosting spouse support groups like Military Mondays, which provides veterans with pro bono legal assistance related to housing, education, employment, disability claims and healthcare issues.
Particularly important is the cultivation of a supportive circle of friends and / or relatives, to be your «extended family» — your support group or spiritual clan.
8) There is a continuing decrease in the nurture and emotional support available to couples from their extended family and neighborhoods, and increased searching for substitute support systems — for example, in communes, family networks, and group marriages.
Three - quarters of African - Americans said that religious groups should receive state and federal financial support to extend existing social welfare programs or to start new ones.
This unwillingness is strange, for the local church offers many of the pastoral - care facilities lacking in the broadcast organizations: continuity of interpersonal relationship, group support, the possibility of extended personal counseling, and the sacramental and interactive aspects of worship.
In addition to this new contract, Arla also said that ASDA is increasing its support by extending the ASDA DairyLink groups, where it has been working directly with Arla farmer owners to improve animal welfare, reducing carbon footprint and increasing farm efficiency.
However with the growing trend for rearward facing seats, the support of the EU wide «i - Size» regulation and manufacturers such as BRITAX helping to inform parents about extended rearward facing transport beyond Group 0 +, the demand in the market will increase and seats will become more readily available.
Don't forget to check out the resources at the end of the book: They include organizations, support groups for lesbian and gay parents, videotapes, and recommended reading for gay and lesbian parents, their extended families, and their children, to name a few.
Group members receive personal coaching and problem - solve with each other to create a community of support that extends beyond the weekly meetings.
Some families hire help, some rely on volunteered time from extended family members, neighbors, fellow parishioners, or support groups for parents of multiples.
The more that I listen to other women and families describe their experiences with breastfeeding, I realize that breastfeeding successfully has much to do with how much support a new mother is given by her partner, family, friends, and extended community (like parenting groups, hospitals, etc.).
Community - based support groups, organizations, and programs, as well as the efforts of peer counselors, expand on the support that women obtain in the hospital and provide a continuity of care that can help extend the duration of breastfeeding.»
API Support Groups can be a wonderful resource for parents who do not have extended families nearby.
• La Leche League — a mother - to - mother support group that supports and encourages breastfeeding, including extended nursing.
Further research is needed to determine whether extending groups into the PP period or developing groups for other family support members (i.e., Hispanic grandmothers) would have a significant impact on breastfeeding duration or exclusivity.
Other Peers expressing their support included Lord Harrison and Baroness Meacher, who highlighted how humanist marriage would merely extend the existing legal provisions awarded to Jewish and Quaker weddings to non-religious groups like the British Humanist Association, and Lord Garel - Jones who reiterated «that there is now overwhelming evidence that humanist marriages fulfil the Government's new families test and that they support strong and stable marriages.»
A party of government can not have a «sticking plaster» coalition that makes different arguments to each group — it must address the issues that can bind this coalition together, notably housing, support for parents and childcare, and extending educational opportunity
Among the accomplishments in its fiscal year 2014 - 15, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership formed a leadership council to assist the business startup group 43North, fostered an outreach to companies that may be interested in providing supplies to Solar City and its forthcoming massive manufacturing plant in Buffalo's RiverBend district, supported efforts to further grow business interest in RiverBend, supported the Buffalo Building Reuse Project and extended the Brownfield Cleanup Project.
In our species, such capacities were probably extended to support parochialism, group cohesion, and our tendency to attach symbolic meanings to social values and religion.»
This influence can also extend into the laboratory, when patient groups partner with scientists to provide research samples, financial support and the motivation to drive discovery.
As California policymakers consider options to extend the state's landmark climate change laws to 2030 and beyond, 155 businesses and industry groups sent a letter to California Governor Jerry Brown, Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon in support of the California Low Carbon Fuel... Read more →
With support from the HMS Tools - and - Technologies committee, he is evaluating the SBGrid software support model to determine if it can be extended to provide a general model of scientific software support for all groups at HMS.
Another is to monitor the effects of transplanting telomerase - deficient but ex vivo telomere - extended bone marrow into late - generation, TMM - disabled mice, so as to be certain that the niche of such animals (or, by implication, aging humans) will support the homing, engraftment, and initial development and differentiation of such cells; the necessary research is underway now thanks to a SENS Foundation grant to Dr. Zhenyu Ju of the Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences and Max - Planck - Partner - Group on Stem Cell Aging in the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and research partner of prominent telomere biologist Dr. K. Lenhard Rudolph.
If you find yourself avoiding sex for an extended period of time or feel unable to talk with your partner about it, consider seeking help from a friend, doctor, therapist, or support group.
The focus is the forming of a shaky coalition: A group of young Londoners called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), led by the uncompromising and charismatic Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer), extend a helping hand to the working - class strikers (LGSM views them as kindred spirits, as they too are being bullied and harassed by the heavy - handed police force).
However, your extended enterprise LMS must support customizable online learning paths and user grouping.
So in the spring of 2008, Leyva started a support group for people on parole on campus as part of the school's statefunded, federally mandated Extended Opportunity Programs and Services department, which aids the low - income and otherwise disadvantaged students.
Use these as whole class activities, early finisher activities or perhaps to target particular groups, to extend and improve sentences, to spark imaginative writing ideas and to support pupils working out where sentences should begin and end.
Most of the small groups that develop during the week stay in contact, proving each other peer support and a professional network that extends their experience for many years after the program ends.
Support was bipartisan and citywide, extending to every ethnic, religious, age and income group, and among supporters of both major party mayoral candidates.
Support is bipartisan and citywide, extending to every ethnic, religious, age and income group, and among supporters of both major party mayoral candidates.
Some of the tools used are extended time on tests, testing modifications, special electronic tools for communication, questions read to students during testing, group therapy and other supports.
The model personalizes learning through four support structures: iCAN Learning Teams, iCAN Academy groups, iCAN Exploratory Courses, and iCAN Extended Learning.
Small group instruction will include pre-teaching skills, re-teaching skills, scaffolding supports, and extending learning linked to the core reading instruction and based on student needs.
Professional presenting organizations worked with performing artists and community groups supporting projects to build audiences, involving extended residencies by performing arts ensembles and encouraging interaction among presenters, artists and audiences.
PFE's support for local community shelters and rescue groups extends to SF ACC, which has benefitted from the Save - a-Kitten, Giving Tree, My Mutt, and Adoption Coupon campaigns to name a few.
Supports / Surfaces, a loose and short - lived group in France, does not appear in the effort to extend Minimalism globally of «Other Primary Structures.»
UN Security Council Resolution 1857, passed on 22 December, extends targeted sanctions to «individuals or entities supporting the illegal armed groups in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo through illicit trade of natural resources».
All of those attorneys general are Democrats, and as the group stood at a podium bearing the words «AGs United for Clean Power» they made clear that their agenda also extended to supporting the centerpiece of President Obama's climate policies, the Clean Power Plan.
We have extended an offer to our internal business groups to submit proposals for projects that support carbon reduction and increased efficiency.
In Canada, the range of flexible legal studies generally is limited to a part - time or extended - time program of study that is only available as a retroactive accommodation to students experiencing barriers to full - time study who may be mature, low - income, sole support caregivers, or from other under - represented groups in legal education.
Google's collaboration is also extending to Vodafone, with the Vodafone Group RCS service now supporting Android Messages.
Friends, extended family, neighbors, colleagues and members of local support groups may be able to provide comfort and support.
In addition, children's development is influenced by wider networks of social support (represented in the diagram's central circles), including extended family, friends and any community, cultural or religious groups a child may be part of.
My passion for fostering growth and wellness in new and young families extends to the community through workshops and support groups.
Support for this type of «comprehensive sexuality education» extends to all demographic groups, including individuals that identify themselves as religious.
The amendments primarily focus upon: - A duty on local authorities to explore suitable wider family placements prior to a child becoming looked after, including offering families a family group conference; - Extending the provisions to support educational attainment of previously looked after children to all children in kinship care.
This program involves the family or other support systems in the individual's treatment: Extended family members are invited to participate in the group sessions when appropriate.
«Although focused primarily on specific attachment therapy techniques, the controversy also extends to the theories, diagnoses, diagnostic practices, beliefs, and social group norms supporting these techniques, and to the patient recruitment and advertising practices used by their proponents.»
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