Sentences with phrase «association with homelessness»

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Reverend Beckwith's former association with the United Church of Religious Science (UCRS) led to their 2001 adoption of the «Global Heart Vision,» calling for «a world free of homelessness, violence, war, hunger, separation and disenfranchisement.»

The conference began with the Association's president and chief executive officer, Jolie Milstein, telling an audience that New York State's budget includes a five - year, $ 2.5 billion fund to combat homelessness and build more affordable housing.

But, after accounting for additional variables related to lifestyle, the researchers found that the association between men with bipolar disorder and Candida infection could likely be attributed to homelessness.

«The Homeless Youth Legal Network is a fine example of how the American Bar Association can link youth experiencing homelessness with experts in the legal community who can help,» ABA President Linda A. Klein said in a press release.

«The American Bar Association and its Veterans Legal Services Initiative are also committed to building awareness of the special legal needs veterans face — problems with wrongful denial of benefits, employment and family matters, evictions and homelessness, and involvement in the criminal justice system.

These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6

Parents of youth with internalizing and externalizing behaviors, substance use and abuse, delinquency, police arrests, out - of - home placements, and deviant peer association; parents who are depressed, highly stressed, living in poverty or high - crime neighborhoods, Spanish - speaking immigrants, parents returning from wars (e.g., Iraq / Afghanistan) who may be experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mothers living in shelters or supportive housing because of homelessness or domestic violence, birth parents whose children are in care because of abuse / neglect, and family with transitions such as divorce, single parenting, and step - families

She has worked with the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY), the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP), the National Disabilities Rights Network (NDRN), Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), and the American Bar Association, among other organizations.

Delivering meals to homeless children is an ongoing project of a number of local REALTORS ® associations working in partnerships with homelessness coalitions.