Sentences with phrase «advocacy role»

While informal in nature, the coffee chat has taken an active advocacy role in the community.

Should teachers play an active public advocacy role related to school reform outside of the school day?

The Early Childhood Australia (ECA) national office is responsible for the overall coordination of ECA's nationwide advocacy role for young children and our publications program.

* Recruit, train and support volunteers to work in a variety of advocacy roles.

The Association plays a strong advocacy role in communities and cities across the country, and in our nation's capital.

This role builds on previous advocacy roles from his student and junior doctor days in Australia and the UK.

From what I understand, NABA's advocacy role includes putting pressure on lawmakers.

In empathizing with their clients, professionals sometimes unwittingly get drawn into advocacy roles, supporting what they believe to be their clients» best interests — winning custody of the children, keeping the house, securing restraining orders, avoiding nasty alimony judgments — without stepping back to look at how their interventions, or lack thereof, affect the divorcing client and family.

In the pages of The Olympian newspaper earlier this month, LGBT writer and advocate Sarah Toce intelligently observed that Amazon plays an oversized advocacy role in Washington State as an LGBT corporate ally.

Since it was founded in 1996, the Clinical Research Forum has enabled the sharing of best practices in clinical research, informed meaningful policy dialogues and increasingly played a national advocacy role in support of clinical research.

Laura brings to the Senior Vice President, Regional Advocacy role the same tenacity and commitment to advocating for policy reform at the local and state levels.

The Conservative government also announced plans to begin a review of the charity sector to limit groups» advocacy role following complaints from Harper that groups are receiving questionable «foreign money.»

With nimble counsel, we can represent insurance companies in both advisory and advocacy roles during litigation.

In addition, in her client advocacy role, she and her team are responsible for ensuring clients» needs are being satisfied with their installed product base and communicating to clients of new or updated products that could be of value to their practice.

Summer 2010 — Undertook the lead advocacy role on hearing of a complicated international arbitration under LCIA Rules, involving claims for misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty, as well as issues of Russian, Cypriot, BVI and English law.

As your advisers, we play an important advocacy role, providing you with the security of knowing that your cliam will be taken care of as quickly as possible.

7 years of experience in a family advocacy role and an inherent will to help families and children access what is theirs by right, are two main qualifications that I put on the table for your consideration.

ATSIC's international advocacy role is widely supported by Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders and judged as essential in keeping all Australians informed of global human rights issues and providing an Indigenous Australian voice overseas...

O'Neill met with REM senior editor Kathy Bevan recently to discuss the challenges of the past year and a half, as well as the more prominent public advocacy role TREB has taken on.

A strong commitment to freedom of artistic expression led the Foundation to play an active advocacy role for artists during the culture wars of the 1990s and continues to inform its support of organizations that fight censorship, protect artists» rights and defend their access to evolving technologies in the digital age.

REM: For the past two years, TREB has led a very public campaign against the City of Toronto's land transfer tax increase — is this the kind of advocacy role you see TREB continuing to undertake?

An extenuating factors were of course Gov. Cuomo's failure to take a strong advocacy role in the removal of Mr. Sheldon, but sometimeswhen woman are wronged other woman have to stand up first and set the tone.

The office, she said, would also play the primary lobbying and advocacy role on policy questions regarding the epidemic in Albany and Washington.

It would be recalled, among others that the company was named the Best Registrar Firm in West Africa by Africa - Canada Trade Alliance at the 7th Edition of the West Africa Innovation and Excellence Awards in 2017 in recognition of outstanding innovations and advocacy role in the Capital Market.

By the end of the sessions, participants should have a broader awareness of various problems that can affect lactation and what types of clues to look for, as well as their advocacy role for the mother.

Her partner was overwhelmed by events and worry for Laura and his child, and unable to function in the advocacy role.

Knowing how to effectively execute the doula's advocacy role can be one of the most satisfying aspects of the doula's career and one of the most important for increasing positive long term birth memories for the clients she serves.

The key elements of mastering the doula's advocacy role are a firm understanding of what is within and out of scope for a DONA doula; practicing daily diplomatic communication skills; developing empathy; understanding one's own trauma exposure response; and effectively increasing one's trauma exposure resilience.

We saw their sense of openness around subject matter discussions related to their children's education, alternative behavioral support options and their understanding of their advocacy role in their children's lives.

Another father spoke about the advocacy role he played when the midwives at the hospital wanted to give his baby formula, knowing his partner wanted to breastfeed:

After relocating to New York, I worked in strategic communications for HBO and Disney / ABC where I managed the public affairs and community - based outreach for issue - oriented programming on such topics as child abuse, substance abuse, civil rights / tolerance and mental health in close coordination with national organizations who play an advocacy role for those concerns.

CO2Chem is free to join and provides networking opportunities, runs conferences and meetings, provides regular news and funding updates, publishes reports and creates informational videos, researches public perception of CDU and has a policy and advocacy role.

«You might need to take an advocacy role for yourself if you really want the best options available to you.»

Do you agree that educators must play a more active public policy and advocacy role to further the cause?

In order to accomplish this task, parents must take the advocacy role seriously.

We take responsibility for our dogs» learning, and we take on an advocacy role for them as a result.

The temptation to exaggerate or oversimplify results would come in advocacy roles, in communicating with the media and public, and in arguing before Congress (and the equivalent in other countries) for funding of specific scientific programs.

Hansen, noted for his outspokenness on the topic of climate change and his willingness to venture into an advocacy role that many other climate scientists try to avoid, has previously voiced his concern about the 2 - degree warming benchmark, saying in 2011 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) that, «the target that has been talked about in international negotiations for 2 degrees of warming is actually a prescription for long - term disaster.»

In climate science, there are increasing numbers of hybrid voices, scientists that are engaging or speaking out about policy (in an advocacy role or not).

The association plays an advocacy role for practising lawyers, but also fights for people's access to justice, said Johnston, pointing to a high - profile stance it took on the issue of legal aid in the last decade.

Fifteen years after it was dismantled, the new British Columbia government has announced it will reinstate the B.C. Human Rights Commission, which has traditionally had an educational and advocacy role, and through which cases heading for the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal are funnelled.