Sentences with phrase «child advocates in»

The data book and website are easily accessible tools to assist local and state public policymakers and child advocates in identifying both needs and solutions for Missouri's children and their families.

5 Child welfare caseworkers are referred to as child advocates in Broward County.

Back 2 Child welfare caseworkers are referred to as child advocates in Broward County.

And we're letting people know that PTA is a national organization with volunteers and child advocates in every state working to be a voice for children.

Voices for Vermont's Children supports the creation of an Office of the Child Advocate in order to continue to monitor and improve outcomes for our children.

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Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

Ten - month - old Dominique underwent a six - hour procedure involving five surgeons at the Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, on March 8.

«We've been deeply committed to helping parents afford the costs of raising and caring for their children since the early days of the administration and will continue to advocate for relief for American families in the coming weeks.»

Cendy is one of millions of immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children — a group known as «DREAMers» by advocates of the Dream Act, a federal bill first introduced in the Senate in 2001 to allow them a pathway to permanent residency.

When not spending time with her husband and two children, Honaman is busy advocating for women in business.

It was founded by two Court Appointed Special Advocates who realized that there were no emergency care facilities for children in Harlingen and the larger Rio Grande Valley.

Dix also helped advocate for insulin pump coverage for children with Type 1 diabetes, which the Liberal government subsequently introduced in 2008.

Say no to spying on advocates for First Nations children, or in fact on any activists of any kind in Canada.

He was brave and unrelenting in his role, particularly when it came to forcefully advocating for children in care — the least powerful people in our society.»

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that advocates healthier restaurant food for children, last year sued McDonald's to stop it from using Happy Meal toys to lure children into its restaurants.

I think this letter was a bold first move in what promises to be a lifetime of advocating for her beloved child.

Of course, Ms. Crandall adds, «there was probably something disingenuous even at the time in abortion advocates» concern for children.»

Certainly the lives of women are as important as those of unborn children, but no one in America or abroad advocates the slaughter of thousands of women annually, while many do defend murder of the unborn.

Care's Chief Executive Nola Leach said they will, despite the new announcement, «continue to advocate for women and unborn children in Northern Ireland and across the rest of the UK.»

In the past, she has worked with Republicans on legislation that reformed the foster care system and encouraged more adoptions, issues I know matter to many pro-life evangelicals who advocate on behalf of adoption and open their homes to children.

Although it proved a harrowing experience - she fled with her family, she says, once the cult began advocating child - adult sexual relations - as the setting at first «was really idyllic,» remembers the actress, 38, who rose to fame on TV's Charmed and now stars in Conan the Barbarian 3D.

A council in east London is going to be quizzed by an advocate for children's rights over its decision to place a Christian girl with Muslim foster carers.

Sax makes some very helpful suggestions for parents struggling to raise respectful children, but his emphasis is misplaced in advocating....

Social - Gospel advocates in the early twentieth century and their mainline children continued to view Christianity's role in the project of American civil religion in terms of the social impact of its moral vision.

I also like that he advocates donations to the FEED THE CHILDREN organization that helps many poverty stricken families in the U. S. as well as abroad.

In her book How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott - Haims, a dean at Stanford University, tells horror stories about parents who speak for, plan for, and advocate for their college - aged children, afraid to let go lest their precious charges....

And of course there would be those on the right, advocating for Muslim prayer in schools, not worrying about how the few Christian children might be impacted, and doing whatever they can to write bits of Sharia into the law of the land.

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 world.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

Barbara Pitkin writes that «Calvin himself appears not to have advocated the use of physical force in response to sin in children; though he recognized the need for parental discipline, his explicit remedies were baptism and education (albeit strict and structural) into faith and morality.»

You advocate that we should have choices so why doesn't the child in the womb have a choice?

1) Churches need to be a voice for economic justice for lower - income families by, for instance, advocating for more generous child and earned - income tax credits, as well as for the elimination of the marriage penalties embedded in many of our public policies directed towards lower - income families.

People who have read this book have: killed millions of people needless in the Crusades, tortured and killed hundreds of thousands in the Inquisition, conducted countless «witch» burnings in Europe and America, have advocated for beating children (Proverbs 13:24), have advocated for the subjugation of women (far too much to cite)...

If you claim there is a magic man in the sky that supernaturally surveils the earth, who asks parents to kill their children, who advocates for slavery, genocide and vengeance, the burden is on you.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

Briefly put, these emerging fields placed far more emphasis on the active role of the learner in the construction of knowledge and advocated a teaching style that was oriented toward the emerging experience of the child.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

He's advocating corporal punishment of children by their parents, which is still legal in most places.

We also advocate for this type of everyday activity (breastfeeding a child in public) to be so utterly normal as to never raise a single eyebrow!

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

The House voted 237 - 189 in favor of the Pain - Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which targets late - term abortions at the point where pro-life advocates argue that babies can feel pain in utero.

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

He's been an advocate for science education in public schools and an expert in making learning entertaining and valuable for children for decades.

The Torah goes on to vilify over and over all «others» including advocating and celebrating genocide of entire peoples with their innocent children for beliefs in other gods.

The other thing is, I don't think we should ever back away from advocating for the protection of children and the serving of survivors simply because of criticism we may receive from those who disagree with us on this issue or the few who may advocate in a manner that we find unproductive or disagreeable.

This raises a delicate issue for pro-family advocates, who have taken on as a solemn responsibility trends in abortion, divorce, child abuse, and drug use.

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.

Our members represent a diversity of stakeholders in the local food system including: farmers, food processors, distributors, farmers» markets, retailers, restaurateurs, institutional food buyers, consumers, anti-hunger advocates, children's health advocates, faith communities, agricultural scientists, and sustainability educators.

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Feminism is an evil that does not advocate equality but superiority in which men are disenfranchised from their property and children as a first line of course.