Sentences with phrase «affirming environments»

Safe and affirming environments have been shown to affect educational outcomes: LGBT students show lower academic achievement than their counterparts as a result of missing school to avoid harassment, being less likely to pursue higher education, and reporting higher levels of depression (Nieto 1992; GLSEN 2013).

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

The safe and affirming environment of the retreat enables healing to occur in a beautiful and life - giving way for the retreatants, many of whom have never felt that they had permission to mourn the loss of their child.

Every Sunday we provide a gay - affirming environment where Scripture is related to lesbian and gay experience and same - sex pairs can receive, as a couple.

A beacon of hope for 28 years, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center builds and supports our community through arts and culture, wellness and recovery, HIV / AIDS services, family services and life - saving youth programs designed to foster healthy development in a safe, affirming environment.

In a safe affirming environment, clients learn new perspectives on whatever has troubled them and begin to heal.

In addition to offering transgender hormone provision, we also offer primary care, cancer screening, wellness education, STD testing and treatment, HIV testing, annual exams, pregnancy testing, birth control, emergency contraception, abortion care and more in an affirming environment.

In addition to offering transgender hormone provision, we also offer an affirming environment for cancer screening, wellness education, STD testing and treatment, HIV testing, annual exams, pregnancy testing, birth control, emergency contraception, abortion care, and more.

In addition to offering hormone therapy, we also provide other health services in an inclusive and gender - affirming environment:

Not exact matches

I believe that it is the church's responsibility to love, accept, and affirm gay men and women and thereby create a positive environment where their sexuality can be expressed in healthy, monogamous, loving relationships (i.e. marriage or civil partnership).

BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT: For nearly two decades, DeWitt has been pressing church leaders to affirm the church's role in caring for the environment.

The point of the discussion here is that a relational view affirms and explains both our social responsibility and the power we have to choose freely how we shall shape the social environment that we inhabit.

After an excess of outrage against the hazards of commercialism, this statement by church leaders offers no other Gospel to those it has condemned than phrases like these: «the spirit of Christmas,» «making Christmas real,» «invest in renewing our own spirits, our relationships, and our natural environment,» and «the spiritual and life - affirming potential of the season.»

If economism implies that economic life ought to be arranged so that the poor get poorer and the natural environment continues to be degraded, and if earthism affirms that we should try to organize economic life so that global poverty is ameliorated and the health of the natural environment is protected and sustained for future generations, then we all ought to become earthists and so ought the World Bank.

Accordingly, Whitehead affirms that even the actual entities studied by physics have emotional responses to their environments.

And we affirm the integrity of creation and the human use of the environment should be sustainable.

His experience is one that questions and pushes against what is affirmed by the environment he was raised in and studied in and confirmed in.I'm not denying that David's cartoons represent his experience in his «church» I'm turning up (best I can) the limitation of that experience and how his version (Zombie pastor preaching re-chewing of the mind as transformational) is 1) a sad and pathetic reduction of the cultural tradition and 2) is evidence of his own ongoing entrapment.

Could we say perhaps there is not much if anything to figure out but just simply affirming that different environments call for different needs and as long as someone comes at things with the right attitude it's cool?

And the Unitarians are leading the whole church in affirming the value and importance of the natural environment.

It is in the search for liberation of all aspects of human life, histories, cultures and natural environment that we can truly affirm that salvation is the wholeness of Creation.

Their knowledgeable, licensed counselors offer culturally sensitive, bi-lingual, LGBTQ - affirming care in accepting, nonjudgmental environment.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, in acknowledging this statistic, affirmed safe co-sleeping practices after decades of advocating solo sleep environments.

This, according to analysts, affirms the capacity of the Group to deliver strong performance through varying economic cycles and challenging business environment.

It is ordered and affirmed that the Department of Environment and Planning, Division of Environmental Compliance, and the Department of Public Works, through its various divisions and the Director of Energy Development and Management, by October 1 of 2018 and every year thereafter, update the initial energy usage plan for Erie County as described in paragraph 1.

It is ordered and affirmed that the Department of Environment and Planning, Division of Environmental Compliance, and the Department of Public Works, through its various divisions and the Director of Energy Development and Management, by December 31, 2017, prepare a report to the undersigned promulgating an initial energy usage plan for Erie County to implement the United States target contribution plan to the Paris Agreement, including, but not limited to, achieving a county - wide target of reducing Erie County's greenhouse gas emissions by twenty - six to twenty - eight percent (26 - 28 %) below its 2005 level in 2025 and to make best efforts to reduce its emissions by twenty - eight percent (28 %), as it pertains to the production and / or use of greenhouse gases by Erie County.

«This has been a remarkable 19 - year journey during which the League has been at the forefront of spurring unprecedented administrative and legislative actions to protect our environment and affirm New York's rightful place at the vanguard of the conservation and environmental protection movement in America,» Bystryn said.

She is now focused on «helping students interact across difference» — an interest she parlayed into the founding of ImpactED, a student group focused on advancing more accessible and culturally affirming educational environments.

We believe that all students deserve a safe and affirming school environment where they can learn and grow.

As members of the School of Education, we strive to work toward an affirming learning and teaching environment.

Institutional Transformation is positioned to revolutionize schools into places where Black teachers can gain relevant professional development and peer support in an environment that affirms their full selves so they can thrive and be effective in the classroom at every stage of their careers.

Directly prior to his role at NLIRH, Steven worked as project director at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network to promote safe and affirming school environments for all students, particularly LGBT students of color.

The Framework affirms the important role that school environment factors play in increasing student achievement by including concrete, quantifiable measures that provide important indicators of how schools are engaging and supporting students.

Struggling schools that bemoan their non-white student populations and blame student demographics for failure could learn from HGA about fostering a culturally affirming learning environment to maintain a culture of achievement.

They must ensure an environment that respects and affirms diversity.

Out - of - school time programs have the opportunity to provide affirming and supportive environments for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth facing a variety of stressors and risks due to victimization that occurs within their social ecologies.

The principal also must support a school environment where diversity is valued and accepted and where students from diverse backgrounds and identities are affirmed, supported, and assured equitable educational opportunities and access to school and community - based support services.

PCSD affirms its commitment to provide a physically and emotionally safe environment for all students, regardless of race, religion, national origin / ethnicity, color, sex / gender (including sexual orientation and gender identity), pregnancy, age, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Therefore, the principal must provide an affirming school environment where each student is treated fairly, respectfully, and with an understanding of each student's culture and context.

The current interest in «small learning environments» feels almost revolutionary, regardless of the affirming research.

CCSA agrees with US Department of Education's position on effective school discipline policy and practices, affirming that «Teachers and students deserve school environments that are safe, supportive, and conducive to teaching and learning.

In its press statement, OSFI affirms the new rules are «reflective of risk and are updated as housing markets and the economic environment evolve.»

«Divestment further affirms the Institute's commitment to environmental responsibility and ensures that students have an understanding of the impact of their decisions as creative professionals on the environment.»

Together these track Guyton's working environment, affirming the «potential to use anything as subject matter».

The body affirms and legitimizes his feeling of control and agency over his environment.

[11] More common, especially in the West, are those who see it as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology.

In a moment of potential transformation or whatever news, revelations and life - changing scenarios await us, The Therapist Office asserts the need in such environments for affirming, alluring and distracting artworks...

Undulating forms channel the malleability of objects as they hover between mush and permanence, fighting to affirm themselves in a sometimes hindering and unsavory environment.

«Daydreamers», Motel7's second solo show, affirms the ease with which she straddles the divide between urban and gallery spaces - where the traditional process of work progressing from gallery environment to museum or public commission, is reversed.

The sculptures conflate the readymade and the monumental, transforming humble objects into abstract symbols of transcendence and the biological, reflecting and affirming viewers and their environments.

A factory becomes not simply a box full of tools, but a life - affirming place that creates habitat, filters water and provides a safe, pleasant and productive work environment — all cost effectively.