Sentences with phrase «affected by poverty»

Dr. Clark has translated the results of her research and the evidence based evaluation and treatment protocols she has developed into community based interventions for underserved women, their infants and families including collaborating with community partners in Dane County to develop the Early Childhood Initiative (ECI), a comprehensive home visitation program for families with infants and young children affected by poverty.

The findings also shine a light on the difficulties facing many kinship carers and their children, with the majority being affected by poverty and deprivation.

The new policy statement recommends 11 strategies to protect the health of children affected by poverty and help families become more secure:

Public policy efforts are needed to protect the health of children affected by poverty and to help families become economically secure.

We know there are real concerns about how different populations affected by poverty, prevalent diseases etc. may metabolise drugs differently.

But when it comes to young men, we tend to label groups of them — particularly those from immigrant backgrounds, often those deeply affected by poverty and lack of opportunity — as something possibly a bit more sinister.

A large proportion of the 70 percent of Connecticut students who fail the tests will come from homes affected by poverty and racism.

And since many students who fail come from disadvantaged backgrounds affected by poverty, there is a pattern that unfolds.

We have a higher concentration of students affected by poverty and mobility, a toxic combination that negatively impacts student achievement,» says Superintendent Steven Webb.

There's no coherent plan and no real answers to the major problems facing schools: teacher shortages, impending curriculum nightmares, vulnerable learners increasingly affected by poverty.

Direct Relief is a humanitarian nonprofit with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty and emergencies.

A couple of years ago, the Palatine Park District became involved with the organization, which recycles playground equipment and rebuilds playgrounds in countries where kids are affected by poverty, war, illness and natural disasters.

In 1998, in the midst of a lucrative business career as the CEO of Lenox, Inc., he felt an unexpected, irresistible call to exchange «success» for service to those affected by poverty and injustice.

Established in 1948 with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies, Direct Relief delivers lifesaving medical resources throughout the world — without regard to politics, religion, ethnic identities, or ability to pay.

It provides medical assistance to help people affected by poverty and disaster in the US and around the world.

Not exact matches

«Church Urban Fund is working hard alongside other charities, churches, faith groups and community organisations to support those affected by food poverty, isolation and financial difficulties.

Fuel poverty is an experience which brings anxiety, depression and physical ill health to many of the householders affected by it.

Most single pensioners and lone - parent families are affected by fuel poverty, a report has claimed.

DB: «The 50 councils worst affected by government cuts will face a reduction of # 160 per head on average, despite the fact that about a third of their children already live in poverty.»

«Given the advantages of this policy, it is essential that the Government retains its commitment to it, helps schools share good practice in terms of managing provision and ensures that the funding schools receive for addressing poverty and deprivation is not affected by the lower registrations for free school meals that may be an unintended consequence of this initiative.»

The former prime minister said pensioner poverty affected one in three older Britons in the early 90s, but that rate had fallen to one in 10 by the time Labour left office in 2010.

Kirk used these post-Katrina shifts — driven by an outside natural disaster rather than internal forces such as rising poverty or gentrification — to see whether changes in the concentration of people just out of prison affected reincarceration rates.

In 2010, 25 percent of Asian seniors age 65 and older in New York City lived in poverty and were affected by musculoskeletal conditions.

Almost 100 years later we still live in a world increasingly affected by war, unemployment and poverty, a reality that nonetheless remains discreetly hidden under the carpet by the illusion of a global democratic society, where most people have access to the internet, and where an overestimated middle class is entertained by lavish sports competitions.

Migrating from the back alleys of Los Angeles» seedier neighborhoods to a derelict hotel complex on the outskirts of Disney territory in Florida, Baker soberly shows how poverty forces those affected by it into inadvisable decisions out of necessity.

The regions worst affected by child poverty stand to lose the most from the proposed eligibility criteria.

The event is giving pupils the opportunity to learn about the issues faced by many children around the world trying to access an education while living in zones affected by conflict, natural disasters or extreme poverty, and who lack the basic tools and teachers they need to learn.

Community schools, or full - service schools, address the barriers to learning created by social problems, such as poverty, that affect students» home life and well - being.

He said factors of poverty that affect achievement in lower socioeconomic rungs — such as violence, mental illness, housing, and access to health care — must also be addressed by the community as a whole.»

The Children's Guild's Chief Academic Officer, Nakia Nicholson followed Dr. Ross with a discussion on techniques that educators can use to change the mindset of children affected by homelessness, poverty, and trauma.

«A lot of the children who are affected by this trend are already at risk because of poverty, drug abuse, violence, family upheaval, lack of healthcare,» says Julianne Robertson King, a mother of four who lives in D.C.'s Ward 5, which is set to see four schools close this year.

As a result of this type of support from Congress, state legislatures, and philanthropic organizations, a steadily increasing number of principals will be affected by compensation systems that offer additional compensation based on student achievement, professional knowledge and skills, and service in high - poverty and other hard - to - staff schools.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

The problem is more about where students live — in poverty or not — and how their lives are being affected by challenges at home, which then affect classroom behavior or attention in class.

• An amendment that would affect Title I funding for low - income students by redistributing funds based on poverty concentrations.

For many neighborhoods affected by extreme poverty, schools represent the last remaining institution with access to resources, support and opportunity.

The study also tested household education, parental occupation, household income, household characteristics such as housing tenure, and neighbourhood measures such as neighbourhood poverty (measured by the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index).

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.

For those students who study medicine, or are already graduated, there are special waivers if they provide their services in poverty - stricken areas or areas affected by disasters (such as hurricanes or floods or famine).

Pratt Center was founded in 1963, when graduate planning students and faculty at Pratt Institute partnered with community organizations to address urban poverty by empowering local residents to participate in the official planning processes that affected their communities.

There is a deeper coming poverty in this country, brought on by all Americans, and the sad thing is that it affects many beyond our shores.

«Changing rainfall patterns affect rainfed agriculture, worsening poverty which can be exploited by others,» he said.

People living in poverty are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, and actions to address climate change can have major implications for development choices and outcomes.

I am committed for life to exposing the errors in the concept of radiative forcing dreamed up by Hansen and used to fool our Australian Government (thus affecting me) and world governments, thus wasting money, causing poverty and death.

This closed high - level, policy driven summit is convened bi-annually by UNEPs the principal forum for Environment Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Cabinet Officials and other senior policy makers and advisors to discuss the most crucial issues affecting the environment, particularly in relation to sustainable development, poverty eradication and climate change.

Dubbed a «regulatory trilemma» by one speaker because of its ambition to combine environmental protection and security of supply with affordability, it raises civil society's doubts as regards the social dimension — first and foremost the way it deals with the burning issue of energy poverty, which is estimated to affect 50 million people in Europe.

As women and men are affected differently by the impacts of climate change, with women likely to bear the greater burden in situations of poverty, climate actions have to be gender sensitive... MR: Those people in the most vulnerable situations typically live beyond the reach of conventional markets, and so require their needs to be met through other channels that can provide sustained social gains in the long term.

Extreme poverty and the impacts of climate change, which already affect many millions of people worldwide, can be overcome by far - sighted, joined - up action on both at once, the Development and Climate Days event at UN climate talks in Peru will hear.

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Because, as we have pointed out previously, with similar statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Global Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the number of people who die from climate change is far, far, less than the number of people who die, or are affected by, poverty.