Sentences with phrase «based child advocates»

This factsheet for child welfare professionals is part of a series that includes factsheets about this topic for a variety of audiences, including guides for parents (PDF - 423 KB), judges and attorneys (PDF - 236 KB), mental health professionals (PDF - 329 KB), resource parents (PDF - 308 KB), and court - based child advocates and guardians ad litem (PDF - 296 KB).

HDP alumni are in a range of roles including kindergarten teachers, doctoral students in clinical psychology, public television producers, admissions directors, school - based child advocates, and education policy analysts.

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So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the wBased Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the wbased leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

This may seem like an unremarkable turn of events, but according to Grant Castleberry of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (flagship organization for the complementarianism movement, which advocates hierarchal gender roles in the home, church, and society), it represents a severe «cultural capitulation» which, «instead of helping guide children towards embracing who they actually are, blurs reality,» «confuses them,» and «drags them through the dark labyrinths» of their parents» gender - based delusions.

The Institute offers a series of video - based online courses on key operational areas of school food, taught by Chef Ann Cooper, internationally recognized author, chef, educator, public speaker, and advocate of healthy food for all children.

As a strong advocate for evidence - based advice, Julie's bespoke approach is both holistic and compassionate; working towards the achievable goal of having both happy parents and content children.

This is exactly how children are raised in evidence - based parenting approaches, such as is advocated by API.

Nowhere in the article, did anyone advocate for changing kindergarten back to a play based, non-academic setting where children can socialize and learn in a developmentally appropriate manner.

Guest Writer - Merilee Kern Children's health advocate, health industry veteran and two - time fitness champion, Merilee Kern, is the creator of the ground - breaking «Kids Making Healthy Choices» APP for children, parents / caregivers and educators (available on iTunes), which is based on her award - winning, illustrated fictional children's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise KidsChildren's health advocate, health industry veteran and two - time fitness champion, Merilee Kern, is the creator of the ground - breaking «Kids Making Healthy Choices» APP for children, parents / caregivers and educators (available on iTunes), which is based on her award - winning, illustrated fictional children's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kidschildren, parents / caregivers and educators (available on iTunes), which is based on her award - winning, illustrated fictional children's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kidschildren's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kids.»

This group is specifically advocating for HR 1324 and S. 934: «Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2009,» which amends the Child Nutrition Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish science - based nutrition standards for foods served in schools other than foods served under the school lunch or breakfast programs.

In response to the many so - called expert theories that advocate the use excessive routines and discipline, Dr. Carlos Gonzalez - renowned paediatrician and author of My Child Won't Eat - advocates raising children based on love, respect and freedom.

Mindell, the associate director of the Sleep Disorders Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, advocates a research - based «basic bedtime method» to help with all kinds of bedtime problems, as noted by the Seattle Children's Hospital.

The Institute offers a series of video - based online courses on key operational areas of school food, taught by Chef Ann Cooper, internationally recognized author, chef, educator, public speaker, and advocate of healthy food for all children.

However, safety experts agree: Infants and young children should remain rear - facing as long as possible, based upon their size and developmental age, as well as the limits of the rear - facing infant seat,» says Sarah Haverstick, a safety advocate and certified child passenger safety technician for Evenflo.

A recent report by the March of Dimes provides the rationale and a blueprint for how to achieve this goal.9 In addition, program planners and managers can stimulate further progress by requesting evidence - based dietary guidelines for pregnant and lactating women, and young children, and by advocating for the research required to increase our understanding of the most critical needs and the interventions most effective in addressing these needs.

Last fall, a coalition of New York - based worker advocates launched a national campaign to press retailers and restaurant chains to end the scheduling practice, which makes it hard for workers to schedule child care or work a second job.

Over the past decade, much progress has been made nationally to increase enrollment in afterschool programs — programs advocates say keep children safe, inspiring them to learn and supporting working families between the hours of 3 and 6 p.m. Vermont and Massachusetts have made the list of Top 10 States for Afterschool, prepared by Washington, D.C. - based After School Alliance.

Mark Largent, a historian of medicine based at Michigan State University in East Lansing, urged vaccine advocates to stop portraying parents who are reluctant to immunize their children as ignorant and anti-science.

A mindfulness practitioner and a long - time champion of efforts to improve the health and well - being of American families and children, Congressman Ryan is also a public advocate for mindfulness - based programs in schools, the military, and the health - care system.

I have previously written about the extent to which advocates for greater public investment in center - based programs for young children, including some education researchers, misrepresent the quality and relevance of the research they cite to support their claims.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

Coded as «left - leaning» were course weeks that advocated concepts like social justice and multiculturalism, focused on inequality and race - based discrimination, emphasized notions of silenced voices and child - centered instruction, or were critical of testing and choice - based reform.

Home - school advocates, however, do not have «animus toward government» but philosophically and politically oppose government control, based on what the classical liberal theorist Frédéric Bastiat called «legal plunder,» over the teaching, training, and indoctrination of children in a «free» nation.

If well - intentioned but misguided advocates succeed in arbitrarily limiting placement in special education based on racial demographics, even more black children with disabilities will miss out on beneficial services.

Rethinking Pathways to High School Graduation in New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards In December 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diploma.

Advocates for gifted children need to be involved in positive public relations on a continuing basis.

Advocates for Children of New York works on behalf of children who are at greatest risk for school - based discrimination and / or academic failure due to poverty, disability, race, ethniChildren of New York works on behalf of children who are at greatest risk for school - based discrimination and / or academic failure due to poverty, disability, race, ethnichildren who are at greatest risk for school - based discrimination and / or academic failure due to poverty, disability, race, ethnicity,...

A public education and advocacy organization promoting high - quality, voluntary prekindergarten for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds; supports state - based children's advocates, and educates policymakers and the public about the need for preK for all children.

Rethinking Pathways to High School Graduation in New York State: Forging New Ways for Students to Show Their Achievement of Standards On December 12, 2013, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma released this report, prepared by Advocates for Children of New York, examining the difficulties that high stakes standardized exit exams pose for many students and addressing the need for more flexible exam requirements and assessment - based pathways to a diploma.

The policy brief urges policymakers to support programs for the parents of English language learners, implement nontraditional programs that offer reciprocal involvement by schools and parents, sponsor targeted teacher professional development, and provide community - based education to inform parents about school values and expectations and help parents become advocates for their children.

The weight states give to closing achievement gaps is an important factor, said Amy Wilkins, the vice president for government affairs and communications of the Education Trust, a Washington - based group that advocates on behalf of disadvantaged children.

In the longer term, we advocate for a final determination on the viability of charter schools in Washington that is fair, equitable, outcomes - based and, above all, driven by what is good for children.

About Momma Bears Momma Bears is a Tennessee - based grassroots organization of public schools advocates who defend and support children and public schools and recognize quality public education as a right for every child.

Combatants on both sides of that fight could claim a measure of validation from the new research: Advocates of school choice who argue that it isn't fair to judge voucher programs based on test results from a student's first year in private school, given that it takes children time to adjust to a new environment, and critics who say vouchers drain funds from public schools without improving student achievement.

Brown took issue with the top - down accountability model heavily based on test scores that Duncan advocated, an extension of the accountability model embodied in the No Child Left Behind law.

In Doing Your Homework, she writes about reading, research based instruction, No Child Left Behind, and creative strategies for using federal education standards to advocate for children and to improve public schools.

Now the Mississippi outreach coordinator for the Washington D.C. - based Black Alliance for Educational Options, Powell crisscrosses the state talking to parent groups and Jackson lawmakers advocating to give parents more options when the public schools — no matter how good they are — fail their child.

Jonah Edelman, its founder and the son of children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, has raised millions of dollars in funds from the Gates and Walton Foundations, as well as many top business executives, and now pursues policies central to the corporate education agenda, including support of charter school expansion, the evaluation of teachers based on test scores and the elimination of their seniority protections.

Instead of advocating for universal school - based pre-K, let's advocate for 3 - and 4 - year - old children and be open to different possibilities.

Parents like Jordan's who advocate actively for their child's involvement in enrichment and gifted education tend to believe that those programs are based on merit and that they need to make sure that school staff know how worthy their child is and how much the program would benefit from their inclusion.

Joan Almon is the Chair of the U.S. Alliance for Childhood (www.allianceforchildhood.org), a broad - based group advocating social change for children to improve their overall health and well - being.

Decisions about which schools a child may attend «should be made based on a child's individual learning needs, and that's what the school voucher program does,» voucher advocate Tosha Salyers wrote in a 2015 blog post for EdChoice, an Indianapolis - based organization that promotes school choice nationwide.

Half a year ago, a network of 88 education professors from 16 universities in the Chicago area, called CReATE (Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education), issued (an) open letter, explaining why this evaluation system is neither research - based nor beneficial to our city's children.

Informally, OBOL advocates on behalf of animal welfare every day, by mobilizing the compassion and creativity of a growing army of volunteers that includes hundreds of school children and parents, civic clubs, faith - based groups, senior living facilities, and businesses.

Pediatricians are uniquely positioned to advocate for sustainable electricity - generating systems, accessible public and active transportation, plant - based food availability, and green spaces that ultimately affect child and family health.

«So there's the knowledge base and the skillset around advocating for children, parents and even the state in child protection matters that is really very different from the domestic family law side of things.»

Spearheading a campaign against Facebook Messenger Kids, Boston - based not - for - profit the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood has gathered together a coalition of around 100 child health advocates and groups to sign its open letter.

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Pediatricians must advocate for workforce development for professionals who care for very young children and for promotion of evidence - based interventions focused on healthy attachment and parent - child relationships.

Home visiting has been promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics as an important complement to office - based practice.1 It has been advocated as a way to improve the outcomes of pregnancy, 2 to reduce the rates of child abuse and neglect, 3 and to help low - income families become economically self - sufficient.4 The background of visitors, however, seems to affect program success.5 — 8 When examined in randomized trials, paraprofessional home visitors (those with no formal training in the helping professions) have produced small effects that rarely are statistically significant.5 — 8 Is the absence of their effect attributable to lack of professional training or underdevelopment of the program models they delivered?