Sentences with phrase «by community violence»

Priority is given to families who have been impacted by community violence, poverty, substance abuse, and trauma.

In this sample, adolescent psychosocial outcomes were predicted by community violence differently for male and female children and based on their experiences of conflict at home.

This special issue of the Zero to Three journal presents practical guidelines for parents, child care providers, community police, and mental health professionals caring for very young children who witness or are victimized by community violence, family violence, and abuse.

Not exact matches

Dimon: We were all disturbed by the bigotry and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend and pray for the victims, their families and the healing of the community.

In addition to pairing with her sister Venus in November 2016 to open a community center in their hometown of Compton, California to supports resident affected by gun violence, Williams has recently been named an ambassador for the Allstate Foundation's Purple Purse initiative.

In a follow - up statement, CEO Brian Chesky said «The violence, racism and hatred demonstrated by Neo-Nazis, the alt - right, and white supremacists should have no place in this world... Airbnb will continue to stand for acceptance and we will continue to do all we can to enforce our community commitment.»

«They learned a valuable lesson that the more violence you generate against the government, against the citizens, the more of a target you're going to become by the government and the international community,» Vigil said.

«There are many programs that work to ensure, especially in communities that are heavily affected by gun violence, -LSB-...] that students are able to respond and administer whatever first aid they can, assuming the person is still alive,» Hogg said on Sunday.

We both come from communities that have been directly impacted by gun violence.

We're teaming up with @NAACP and these celebrities to send 17 buses of young people from communities impacted by gun violence around the country to the #MarchForOurLives in Washington D.C. tomorrow: https://t.co/7vbOJmqQkN @AMarch4OurLives pic.twitter.com/BJ 4uzPGlBs

The governor said he would seek to strengthen state laws to prevent the purchase or possession of weapons by any adult «when either a family member, community welfare expert or law enforcement officer files a sworn request and presents evidence to the court of a threat of violence involving firearms or other weapons.»

The foundation's mission is, as stated on its website, «to prevent Virginia Tech - type shootings through education and advocacy; to employ comprehensive educational efforts to expand community and student awareness of campus safety issues; and to offer compassion, support, and hope to those affected by violence.»

There's a broader issue magnified by the intensity of reactions to the Parkland shooting: When it comes to gun violence, race and the unique needs of communities of color are still being overlooked in the national conversation.

«Other communities that have been devastated by gun violence are still fighting for crumbs.»

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

It's a story based on events not in the deep South, but in the Pennsylvania suburb of Levittown, when William and Daisy Myers moved their family into the all - white community and were rocked by riots, threats and violence that lasted throughout the summer of 1957.

In other places, we have seen governments stand by while sectarian violence inflamed by religious animosities tears communities apart.»

In addition to the reported forced payments, many Christians are being driven from their communities by the violence or may soon face the prospect of being forced to flee from the brutal insurgent group...

there you go some facts for you to learn instead of violence and propoganda taught to you by your community and parents

Do not doubt for a second that if more of us left our bubbles, abandoned culture wars, locked up our guns safe behind our legal right to own them and brought the physical presence of Christ into the communities stricken by violence, we would see dramatically less devastation — by gun or otherwise.

Just as family violence was tacitly accepted during former times, so was violation of community sexual standards — especially by men.

The Edah Haredit sees its immediate political needs met through violence, and the mainstream Haredi community would lose a great deal were it to publicly split the camp by rejecting the Edah Haredit.

The research continued, and in May 1982 the National Institute of Mental Health released the findings of a ten - year follow - up to the surgeon general's 1972 study: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family vViolence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family vviolence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violenceviolence.

If our concern is peacemaking — particularly the special urgency given that task by the nuclear threat — then we shall have to come to grips with those portions of the biblical witness in which the community of faith has been forced to deal with the violence and pain of conflict between peoples.

Violence sanctioned by the community begets more vViolence sanctioned by the community begets more violenceviolence.

And while our sisters around the world continue to suffer from trafficking, exploitation, violence, neglect, maternal mortality, and discrimination, those of us who are perhaps most equipped to respond with prophetic words and actions — women of faith — are being systematically silenced by our own faith communities.

By design, terrorism is an unpredictable use of violence against an individual, group, community, or nation to attain the goal of the perpetrators.

Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the BPCA, said: «Negligence and violence has led to the death of a man believed to be totally innocent by the Christian community.

Without a common theological narrative to sustain the demands of real virtue, traditionalists believe, moral community collapses and society is held together only by coercion and violence.

Impelled by curiosity and the mania for control, objectivism fractures the bonds of community and tends inherently toward violence.

And we know that violence is exacerbated in communities and families living in poverty, and by the prominence given to it in films, television and other media.

But, in a time of unprecedented religious violence — Christian persecution has never been more widespread, and Muslim communities around the world are frequently targeted by radicals and terrorists — celebrating a symbol of religious violence isn't just misguided; it sends the wrong signal about Christianity.

The conquest of the political culture of the black community by the culture of the left has allowed someone like Farrakhan to gain an acceptance and support that far exceeds that of any comparable black demagogue in the past including Malcolm X, who in his lifetime, it should be remembered, was condemned and isolated by the leadership of the black civil rights movement precisely because of his rhetorical violence and racial politics.

The catalyst for this plethora of enquiries was the growing community concern that violence in Australia was on the increase, stimulated particularly by the multiple murders in Hoddle Street and Queen Street in Victoria in late 1987 and the proximate massacre in Hungerford in the U.K..

It's a day to remember «those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia and to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community.»

On 11th January, 1988 the Social Development Committee of the Victorian Parliament was requested by the Governor in Council «to inquire into, consider and report to Parliament on strategies to deal with community violence.»

But research continued, and in May of 1982, the National Institute for Mental Health released the findings of a 10 - year follow up on the Surgeon General «s 1972 Study entitled Television and Behavior: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

Flor de mi Tierra was established in 2005 to work on re-building coffee communities displaced and hard hit by guerilla violence.

API promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents and as a result changes everything from the dynamic of a family to that of communities by improving school readiness to reducing violence.

Regular donations are made to organizations that help women and children, including: New Beginnings (they provide shelter, advocacy and support for women and children affected by domestic violence); GAPPS (Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth); Open Arms Perinatal Services (they provide community - based support for women through pregnancy, birth and postpartum).

Angered by a shootout last week on Howard Street, about 70 people took to the streets in a peace march organized by community organizations Sunday, calling for an end to violence in Rogers Park.

There seems to be barely a day when we don't hear of a tragedy somewhere on the globe — an act of violence, a casualty of war, a community in mourning, a home shattered by abuse.

However, there is an emergent consensus within the divorce research community that in the great majority of contested cases of child custody, where family violence is not a factor, children's needs and interests are best served by preserving meaningful relationships with both of their parents.

A recent example of a country joining the international community by fighting for independence, gaining independence, gaining a (in hindsight temporary) monopoly on violence, and not stepping on the toes of any great powers in the process would be South Sudan, which declared independence in 2011 and is now recognized by the international community (and engaged in a civil war).

Liddle: - The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African - Caribbean community.

The Governor said New York stands in solidarity with the LGBT community and mourns the loss of the Americans whose lives were cut short by this senseless act of violence.

New York State can not stand by as our communities continue to be devastated by gun violence.

(New York, NY)-- In response to brave gun violence prevention activism by students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and from communities across the country, New York State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Chair of American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, released the following stviolence prevention activism by students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and from communities across the country, New York State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Chair of American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, released the following stViolence Prevention, released the following statement:

Not only will this groundbreaking partnership take new steps to prevent illegal guns from crossing state lines, but by forming the nation's first Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, we will be able to better inform policymakers nationwide on how to keep their communities safe.»