Sentences with phrase «societal supports need»

Societal supports need to catch up.

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Overall, I believe that a modern workplace should address the needs of today's workforce, and that utilizing workplace technology to support telecommuting and flexible work will achieve societal, environmental, and economic benefits for both employees and employers.

«They place stress on the individual as the foundational societal unit, with a stress on the need for the individual to take action in the form of being born again and supporting the program.

They need a strong government and societal support with the facilities and tools that they can readily tap into whenever they find a blind spot along the way.

AAAS has long backed scientific initiatives that address societal needs, including support for education in the sciences and using science to build partnerships.

However, policy has yet to support the kind of early interventions needed to solve persistent societal issues.

It is part of the larger societal inequity that the schools that may have the greatest needs don't have the resources to respond effectively and provide the supports that students need to navigate successfully through school and other opportunities.

In his testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in July 2009, OSTP Director John Holdren took note of the National Research Council recommendation to restructure the (USGCRP) around «`... the end - to - end climate change problem, from understanding causes and processes to supporting actions needed to cope with the impending societal problems of climate change.

Strong OSTP leadership, moving expeditiously and aggressively, is needed to move the USGCRP research agenda in new directions and to support the creation of a new institutional capacity to reduce societal vulnerability to global climatic disruption.

Although temperature reconstructions are needed to study the Earth's energy balance, freshwater fluxes are arguably more immediately meaningful for ecosystem services and societal needs and will support detection and attribution exercises.

These include identifying and understanding key environmental and societal vulnerabilities to global change over a range of time scales; developing a knowledge base to support regional and sectoral responses to global change; developing a knowledge base to support responses to global scale threats; and finally, creating and applying the tools and approaches needed to iteratively manage the risks of global change.

Component B, Forecasts: the ongoing production of experimental quasi-operational decadal climate predictions in support of multi-model annual to decadal forecasting and the application of the forecasts to societal needs

If the purpose of a token is for societal transformation, and all proceeds go to the support and development of the token, it need not register.

Our study highlights the importance of acknowledging immigrant parents» need for societal information in parent support programmes and that these programmes must be delivered in a culturally sensitive way.

The study underlines the importance of acknowledging immigrant parents» need for societal information in parent support programmes and the importance of delivering these programmes in a culturally sensitive manner.

This synthesis reflects CSSP's theory of change, which supports the need to work in all domains of the social ecology — individual, familial and relational, community, societal, and policy — in order to make a difference in the lives of families and children.

Despite the significant impact of maternal depression on mothers and children alike, maternal mental health needs are often neglected or undiagnosed.18 Prevalence rates of maternal depression are high among low - income women due to the greater challenges they may face related to financial hardships, low levels of community or familial support, and societal prejudice.19 In fact, the prevalence of maternal depression among low - income women in the United States is double the prevalence rate for all U.S. women.20 At the same time, these women are less likely to receive treatment or be screened for postpartum depression.21 Studies show there are clear racial and ethnic disparities in who accesses treatment in the United States, even among women of the same general socio - economic status: In a multiethnic cohort of lower - income Medicaid recipients, 9 percent of white women sought treatment, compared with 4 percent of African American women and 5 percent of Latinas.22

I spent the next 10 years working for various non-profits managing and directing research, policy, and programs primarily supporting the psycho - social health of women, children and families.I realized that rather than focusing on creating change at a societal level through research and policy, I'd much rather direct my focus to those who need change the most — individuals, couples and families struggling with the problems that life throws at them.As a Therapist, I am interested in working with anyone needing support.

Early interventions to promote the health and well - being of children have been shown to help mitigate the negative consequences of child maltreatment and have long - term positive effects on the health of maltreated children.5 Services are required that provide support to families as soon as they need it, and provide early permanency decisions.6 Interventions that exhibit these characteristics are most likely to improve children's mental health and well - being and reduce health and societal costs over the long term through increased likelihood that children will have higher educational achievements, successful lives and be less likely to be dependent on the state.