Sentences with phrase «as informal support»

The two processes informed each other, and in a way the GSP worked as an informal support group and testing ground for many of the things that eventually made it to the Rio +20 outcome.

Studies were excluded where the intervention (a) was aimed at prevention rather than treatment; (b) was aimed specifically at children, the whole family as a unit or at teachers; or (c) was non-structured, such as an informal support group or unstructured home visits.

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If a father has an informal arrangement with the child's mother, he should maintain records such as check receipts or a written letter from the child's mother as to the child support arrangements and what's been given thus far.

Just as many breastfeeding advocates support mothers in bed - sharing with their babies, due to the belief that bed - sharing benefits breastfeeding, and its practice can be made safer, we can also support human milk sharing by providing moms with the information they need to make informal milk - sharing safer.

ECCS funds supported Strengthening Families training as well as mini-grants for community - based projects providing formal and informal supports for families.

Community - based parent support programs are based on the belief that when parents receive parenting support as well as other supports and resources, they are more likely to feel better about themselves and their parenting abilities, and in turn interact with their children in responsive and supportive ways enhancing the development of their children.3 Bronfenbrenner, 16 Cochran, 17 and others18, 19 have noted that parenting knowledge and skills are learned and strengthened by the kinds of help and assistance provided by informal and formal social support network members.

And workplace accommodations to support continued breastfeeding simply don't exist in much of the world, let alone protections for poor women working in the informal sector, such as domestic work or street vending.

«We need to focus on enabling environments — dealing with the difficulty of breastfeeding in public, the lack of widespread informal support after decades of low rates, support for women in the workplace, improved staff training, and adhering to the Code — as well as support.»

:: Urgently pay Edo State pensioners over 42 months outstanding pension benefits and entitlements from the over N29bn Paris Club refunds received by your government and meant for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities;:: Adopt a human rights policy of guaranteeing regular payment of pension benefits and entitlements so that pensioners and their families can live decently;:: Recognize the human rights of Edo State pensioners and ensure their full and effective enjoyment of those rights, as well as provide them with information to enable them to claim their rights;:: Treat all pensioners in Edo State as individuals with humanity and dignity and respect and promote their higher standard of living and improve economic and social conditions for all pensioners;:: Provide Edo State pensioners with proper support and assistance to alleviate their plight, including by ensuring informal, community - based and recreation - oriented programs for pensioners to help develop their sense of self - reliance and independence;:: Reduce opportunities for corruption in the spending of the Paris Club refunds

This can take two forms: a formal coalition with other parties or a more informal arrangement, known as «confidence and supply», in which the smaller parties agree to support the main legislation.

It has been time consuming and incredibly stressful, especially as I am prone to worry, and getting through it has made me realise just how important an informal support network — my friends and family — is to the determined career changer.

They asked 56 healthy parents of children with ASD to complete questionnaires on formal social support (provided by health or social services professionals), informal social support (provided by significant others, friends and family) as well as self - rated health and recent somatic symptoms.

«The need for formal and informal support thus remains high even as the child with ASD is becoming an adult.»

Once the coffee and cakes arrive at the meeting location, we have a very informal and bare - knuckles discussion about a variety of topics, such as the Human Genome Project, support vector machines, and many others.

As injured veterans recover and reintegrate into civilian life, many are aided by the support and assistance of nonprofessional or informal caregivers, individuals who provide a broad range of care and assistance with activities of daily living.

For five years Kim supported customers in expanding their sexual pleasure through paid live workshops as well as informal education.

As an activist group supporting feminist progress in the film industry, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ.org), a nonprofit professional association of women who write about film and the movie industry, keeps tabs on films made by and about women throughout each year, conducting what might be considered a very informal study of feminist film production.

Each of these support tools serves as an informal just - in - time online training resource for your employees.

The second avatar was the use of mobile learning to offer informal learning, notably as job aids (Performance Support Tools or PSTs).

What I see changing in 2018, would be its wider application across all corporate training needs as well as its increased use to support informal learning and digitization of Instructor Led Training (ILT).

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

(2) A program must use information from paragraph (b)(1) of this section with informal teacher observations and additional information from family and staff, as relevant, to determine a child's strengths and needs, adjust strategies to better support individualized learning and improve classroom practices in center - based and family child care settings and improve home visit strategies in home based models.

The Government is still throwing money at the academy initiative when the National Audit Office found informal interventions such as local support were better than academy conversion.

She pointed to a National Audit Office report that said informal intervention such as local support was more effective than formal intervention.

The NAO found informal interventions such as local support were more effective than former interventions such as academy conversion in improving schools.

Walls and Skae are highly accomplished teachers who have led in a variety of formal and informal ways, such as designing a program to provide new teacher support and coaching peers to teach college - and career - ready standards.

This paper reports the results of a study of 82 undergraduate preservice teachers and their attitudes regarding Twitter as a medium for informal professional development support during their internships.

Data from the end of the internships, as well as a follow - up of those continuing to follow the Twitter account 2 years after their internships, were analyzed for trends in acceptance of Twitter as an informal means of professional development support.

As we have worked in the field of youth media for the past 15 years — refining our strategies for media making, technology integration, and project - based learning in informal and formal settings — we have learned that with the right supports, educators anywhere can facilitate meaningful activities that promote media literacy and empower youth to create media with purpose.

Foster children would be targeted for extra educational support, and foster parents would help the state penetrate the world of informal child care, such as grandparents and family friends who care for young children in their homes.

Starting off in March as a fairly informal meet - up, they were, nevertheless, supported by Capcom all the way, something which has culminated in the recent,... Continue reading →

Throughout his life, Hansen was committed to encouraging and supporting the work of other artists through activities such as the Ultimate Akademie, an informal school inspired by Joseph Beuys's Free University - which was predicated on the idea that everyone is an artist - that he founded in 1987.

As Parker and her colleagues emphasize: «All management policies, priorities and initiatives — formal or informal, and explicitly stated or implicitly assumed — can either undermine or support ethical practice within a firm.»

Assessors should attempt to provide details such as their formal and informal observations, as well as any test results, to support any conclusions about an individual's functional abilities.

When married or common - law couples separate, they can immediately address separation - related issues such as division of property, parenting arrangements, and support through informal or formal separation agreements.

As the trial date approaches, both the claimant and the insurance company usually take a closer look at the elements of the claim and available evidence to support it, and may try to settle the matter by informal discussion, mediation or pretrial conferences with the judge.

With John's help, the foundation for Kim's business case is being laid: she gains several sponsors and informal mentors, develops relationships with key clients and carves out a niche that supports John's and, as needed, other partners» practices.

Occasionally we act on behalf of local authorities or government agencies either as expert witness at inquiry or providing supporting evidence at local plan inquiries, site allocations or informal hearings.

The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance) shows that too many top performers quickly fade when they change firms and often underestimate the degree to which their past success depended upon such firm - specific factors as long - term working relationships, quality of resources and support, and informal systems through which professionals obtain information and get work accomplished.

Of those staff who had disclosed poor mental health at work (2,200 employees), just over half (53 per cent) said they felt supported, and 72 per cent said they'd been made aware of the support tools such as Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs), counselling, staff support networks or informal buddying systems.

Intensive and successful engagement with Minister for Justice, all politicians in the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) and the wider public to ensure that at least full civil partnership based on marriage was enacted as opposed to earlier proposals (which continued to be supported by those opposed to change for same - sex couples) for a civil partnership model based on informal cohabitation with no conjugal status for same sex couples and limited protections.

«Many people live with informal child support arrangements as a result, and this might offer them an opportunity to put something legally binding in place to protect them without all of the cost and complication associated with either going through court or completing a comprehensive separation agreement.»

In summary, they attributed racial disproportionality to external factors such as poverty and racial discrimination, to community and family characteristics such as the lack of informal and formal supports, and to internal issues such as worker bias.

Parents are no longer viewed as «empty vessels waiting to be filled with professionally derived child development knowledge but as active partners in search of formal and informal supports necessary to carry out the difficult task of parenting» (Whittaker, 1993, p. 6).

It also included informal supports such as those provided by family, friends and neighbours.

RAV Cranbourne Centre Manager, Mario Avice said the program aimed to strengthen father / child bonds and develop confidence in the men as positive role models; while offering informal clinical support and a conduit to other family relationship services, such as counselling.

In a study of unwed fathers one year after their children's births, Mincy, Garfinkel, and Nepomnyaschy found, using Fragile Families data, that strong enforcement, measured as a city or state's commitment to establishing paternity, increased the chance that fathers had seen their child in the past thirty days and that they had received an overnight visit from their child in the past year.47 A nuanced set of findings emerges from a separate study by Nepomnyaschy of the interactions between father involvement, and formal and informal support payments.48 Both formal and informal support payments one year after a child's birth raise the likelihood of father contact two years later.

Without a foster carer assessment taking place, a child going to live with a relative may be regarded by the local authority as an informal kinship care arrangement and they may not support the child further despite the evidence of risk that led to the child leaving their parents.

Peer support within this group is ongoing as parents continue to arrange informal meetings.

Previous systematic reviews in the palliative setting have yielded many different types of instruments for capturing informal caregiver outcomes in health services research such as bereavement, burden, family functioning, mood, needs, QOL, satisfaction with service delivery and social support.40 — 42 However, preceding reviews did not consider the specific requirements of outcome measures in economic evaluations and may not have identified all relevant literature.