Sentences with phrase «families experiencing poverty»

Her work focuses on the role of adverse, protective and promotive factors in families experiencing poverty and among newly immigrated and refugee families, and includes testing promising intervention approaches.

While the idea of a commission focused on economic security is not a bad one, families experiencing poverty shouldn't have to keep waiting when there are existing solutions that we could implement now.

Not exact matches

Having firsthand experience with childhood poverty, I am primarily motivated by never wanting to put my kids in the same situation — and the job I left paid well and provided health insurance for my entire family.

A family friend who works as a concert photographer saw the photo and put her in touch with board members of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, an organization that provides food, housing, and social services for those experiencing poverty and homelessness.

In the US, the poor have experienced a unique form of poverty: a breakdown of the family.

More than 80 per cent of children who experience long - term poverty come from broken or unmarried families.

Moynihan's thinking on this was influenced by his own experiences of deprivation and the Catholic doctrine of subsidiarity which led him to put particular stress on the importance of families in alleviating poverty.

And children don't need to experience poverty or witness family stress to get into trouble.

The Wellspring Baby Boutique serves families with children ages 0 - 17 who are experiencing homelessness and poverty.

Publishing «The Case for Family Allowances» in 1940, she argued that the poverty experienced by women and children could be substantially alleviated by a cash payment directly to the mother.

«If she knew the anxiety that New York City families living below the poverty line experienced every day, she wouldn't be trying to make a trip to the grocery store more costly with this regressive tax,» he said.

A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000 Hispanic children from immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.

Such positive early experiences are especially important for children who are exposed to poverty, discrimination, violence, and economic instability,» says lead researcher Laurie Miller Brotman, PhD, Bezos Family Foundation Professor of Early Childhood Development in the Department of Population Health, and director of the Center for Early Childhood Health and Development at NYU Langone.

As young adults work to break the cycle of poverty or strive toward being the first in their family to go to college, they experience a disproportionate burden of stress — and were not resilient in terms of their future health due to the combined burden of lived adversity and striving to change it.

Children who experience family and environmental stressors, and traumatic experiences, such as poverty, mental illness and exposure to violence, are more likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to new research by investigators at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), titled «Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity,» published in Academic experiences, such as poverty, mental illness and exposure to violence, are more likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to new research by investigators at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), titled «Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity,» published in Academic Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity,» published in Academic Pediatrics.

The event is being organized by Lincoln, an Oakland - based nonprofit that provides support to children and families that have experienced poverty and trauma.

This problem is strongly correlated with family income: 64 percent of African American 4th - graders and 60 percent of Hispanic 4th - graders (two groups that experience disproportionate rates of poverty) scored below the basic level in reading in 1998.

However, we now have a much greater understanding of the impact of experiences such as neglect, abuse, poverty, family violence, or lack of a healthy connection with a primary attachment figure.

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As a non-profit with nearly two decades of experience in high - poverty communities nationwide, we are committed to meeting the needs of all students — especially students from low - income families, students with learning differences, and English Language Learners.

Teachers, particularly those working in schools located in communities with high poverty, often find themselves overburdened and under - resourced to help their students (and their students» families) who are experiencing routine and extreme trauma.

This report examines the role that afterschool programs play in supporting families living in high - poverty areas and discusses the demand for afterschool programs in these areas along with families» experiences with afterschool.

As its name implies, the Head Start program was developed to enhance the experiences of children in low - income families prior to school entry, with the goal of alleviating the negative effects of growing up in poverty.

She said the experience let her escape poverty and a family history of dropping out of high school.

Because children in poorer families are more likely to experience poor - quality child care, the data suggest that high - quality child care might serve as an important early childhood intervention for children living in poverty.»

«The resulting positive school climate helps overcome the role of family poverty and teacher experience as predictors of student achievement and school performance.»

But high percentages of principals work with students who are experiencing family or personal crisis (95 percent), in need of mental health services (91 percent), living in poverty (90 percent), coming to school hungry (85 percent), and in need of health care services (82 percent).

Growing up, my family experienced situational poverty and occasional homelessness.

In my experience, the very high poverty schools have a high percentage of families in crisis.

This document outlines the role that afterschool programs play in supporting families living in high - poverty areas by answering questions about what afterschool program participation looks like, what the demand for afterschool programs is, what is preventing parents from taking advantage of and children from participating in afterschool programs, and what the afterschool program experience is like for families in communities of concentrated poverty

Agreeably, students from poverty are often lacking in experiences than children from higher - income families.

One in 4 children experiences a mental health disorder annually, 73 and half of those who will have a mental health disorder at some point in their life will first be diagnosed at age 14 or younger.74 Furthermore, about half of all children will experience a traumatic event — such as the death of a parent, violence, or extreme poverty — before they reach adulthood.75 And as the opioid epidemic continues to grow, students are coming to school affected by a parent's addiction as well as the havoc and instability that it can wreak on family life.76 In addition, as students experience other issues — such as puberty; family matters, like divorce; and bullying — having supportive trained adults to talk to in school is critical for improving their well - being and attention to learning.

While it remains most acute in urban core neighborhoods with intergenerational poverty, 31 hunger is increasing in suburban locales and is most prevalent in rural Southern locales.32 Since wages have been stagnant or eroding in many industries, two - thirds of families experiencing food insecurity have at least one working adult, and many might initially appear to be maintaining a middle - class lifestyle.33

The estimates in the fiscal bureau memo are based on the number of students currently attending private schools, estimates of the number of those students whose family income is below 185 percent of the federal poverty level and experience with the expansion of Milwaukee's voucher program.

Jiménez's compelling autobiographical stories in Breaking Through, sequel to The Circuit, combine dramatic social issues of poverty and prejudice in the 1950s with timeless adolescent experiences of family tension, school, and romance.

The 529 ABLE (Achieving a Better Life Experience) Act was passed in 2014 by the President to take away these thresholds so as to allow these families to continue to receive support while they climb out of poverty.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students often have shared cultural values and social experiences, including a world view that is shaped by their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity, a deep sense of obligation to family, and similar upbringings in places of poverty and financial hardship.

We provide assistance to families who normally live above the poverty line, but have experienced a financial setback — unemployment, unexpected and major medical bills, loss of home, etc..

The campaign titled Poverty Isn't Always Easy to See, which can be experienced online in an interactive tour of the house, is an example of what a family living in poverty experiences and puts a spotlight on the struggles of more than 300,000 Canadians living under the povertPoverty Isn't Always Easy to See, which can be experienced online in an interactive tour of the house, is an example of what a family living in poverty experiences and puts a spotlight on the struggles of more than 300,000 Canadians living under the povertpoverty experiences and puts a spotlight on the struggles of more than 300,000 Canadians living under the povertypoverty line.

Most children attending school come from families experiencing extreme poverty so New Adventure is striving to provide a fresh daily cooked school meal for each child.

Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Among Poor Children Experiencing Homelessness or Residential Instability (PDF - 1,674 KB) Institute for Children and Poverty (2010) Analyzes how a family's experiences with homelessness, poverty, and residential instability over the first 5 years of a child's life are associated with incidences of intimate partner viPoverty (2010) Analyzes how a family's experiences with homelessness, poverty, and residential instability over the first 5 years of a child's life are associated with incidences of intimate partner vipoverty, and residential instability over the first 5 years of a child's life are associated with incidences of intimate partner violence.

In addition, there is consistent evidence to suggest that children raised in stable two - parent families do better than those who experience multiple transitions in family structure, which has been referred to as the instability hypothesis.24, 25 Because family break - up and the experience of poverty often co-occur, 26 it is important to assess their combined as well as separate effects on children's outcomes.

In addition, studies have reported that families living in chronic poverty have differential outcomes based on when and for how long poverty was experienced (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Research Network, 2005).

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

Demographics have a profound influence on the likelihood that a family or community will experience poverty or low income.

The majority of families (62.1 %) were identified as not being poor at any of the three assessments, although approximately 13 % of families experienced persisting poverty.

Controls for family transitions had little impact on estimates of the effects of family poverty: all poverty variables remain significantly associated with cognitive functioning at the age of 5 years, except for transient experiences of poverty at the age of 3 years only (npn), which showed no significant risk effect on pattern construction.

The WE CARE survey78 is a brief set of questions that alerts the pediatrician to families experiencing stress related to poverty.

Since 2008, suburbs have experienced larger and faster increases in poverty than either urban or rural areas.24 This significant shift in the location and demographics of children and families dealing with financial stress makes necessary a reevaluation of the current engagement and service delivery systems that may not meet this emerging need.25