Sentences with phrase «children have access to services»
Schools are also the only place where some children have access to services that promote and maintain health.
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Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.
They also believe that when employees have access to on - site cafeterias, child care centers, gyms and concierge services, they become more productive because they don't have to leave the office to grab lunch or spend time driving to the gym or dropping off children at a daycare across town.
«Christy Clark has failed to adequately invest in child and youth mental health services since 2011, despite multiple reports showing that an inability to access services is putting lives at risk,» said Horgan.
The policies that are routinely sold to our children rest on the contention that all people have the right to confidentiality and therefore we must have confidential access to sexual health services, to abortion and so on.
Barry Callebaut has its Cocoa Horizons Foundation which «funds farmer training, farmer support, innovative finance, initiatives to protect children, access to education, woman's empowerment and basic health services.»
Our goal is for every school in the United States to have a salad bar as part of their school food service program so that every child — from elementary school, to middle school, to high school — has daily access to fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and healthy proteins.
Most parents would be thrilled to have the help of such a coach who could tell them «ask for this, not that,» or «fill in this form and you'll have access to better services for your child.»
Officials at schools — as well as hospitals, nursing homes and child - care facilities — would be able to access the data from a Web site run by the federal Department of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Agriculture Department.
Ensuring that children and families have access to healthy, affordable food and nutrition services is a critical component of protecting them against the health effects of poverty.
This proposal would provide the resources to help states implement those important reforms and support the expansion of access to quality child care programs staffed by early educators that can provide developmentally appropriate services that promote the healthy development and school readiness of young children
Over the past year, I have met with community leaders and stakeholders from across the country — parents and teachers, school board members and principals, suppliers and food service workers — about the importance of making sure every child in America has access to nutritious meals at school.
The bill would change federal policy and allow Tribes to administer federal programs that provide free, healthy meals to children in schools, while simultaneously helping to alleviate some of the hurdles Tribes face in trying to access hunger and nutrition services.
After placement, you and your child's birthparents will have access to support through lifelong services from OA&FS.
Our goal is for every school in the United States to have a salad bar as part of their school food service program so that every child — from elementary school, to middle school, to high school — has daily access to fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and healthy proteins.
With food service experience, established systems, and educational programming in place, schools are a perfect fit and help ensure children have access to healthy meals.
«Our state was among the first to create the Child Health Plus Program and has led the way in expanding access to the important services it provides children under 19,» Hannon said.
«The values and ethos of a public education service, which should secure and deliver the entitlement of all children and young people to access high quality education, have been seriously compromised.
Among the provisions, the law would empower Child or Adult Protective Services to seek a court order to enter premises to investigate claims of abuse if access is denied by the homeowner; allow Child Protective Services to share information about prior abuse with Adult Protective Services; and make it a Class A misdemeanor to deny Child or Adult Protective Services access to an alleged victim for an interview.
«This nearly $ 2 million program is helping provide critical legal services to these children who have found themselves here, far from home and without access to a lawyer,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.
«The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute believes that all young children in New York should have access to the highest quality services across sectors, locations, and professions.
Without I.D., these services can be hard to access — Queens Borough President Melinda Katz recalled not being able to enter her child's school because she didn't have her I.D. with her.
«As the national association and accrediting body for Children's Advocacy Centers across the country, our goal is to ensure that every victim of child abuse has access to high - quality services that result from professional collaboration.
The number of children and young people in Wales waiting over 14 weeks to access psychiatric services is nearly five times higher than two years ago, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have revealed today.
Getso said that over the last two years, the state government had renovated more than 300 primary and secondary health care facilities in Kano, with a view to improving access and quality of healthcare services towards reducing maternal and child mortalities.
Children at PS 192 in Manhattan will have access next fall to a variety of new academic, health and social service programs as the school becomes the 29th to join the UFT's Community Learning Schools Initiative.
«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»
«Concern that children with autism were not able to access services through private insurance even in the context of parity laws was one reason why patient advocates have pushed for these state mandates that apply specifically to autism coverage,» Barry says.
«We now need to identify the factors responsible for increasing utilization overall and understand why some groups of children have accessed preventive dental care services more than others,» said Yun.
The study authors say the findings highlight the importance of ensuring that all children have access to eye care professionals and necessary services to properly diagnose and treat strabismus.
«This is just the first step in ensuring that all children have access to preventive dental services.»
It is designed to ensure that children with disabilities through the age of 21 have access to free and appropriate educational services.
«Improving access to child psychiatrists through consultation services and collaborative care models may help address potential undertreatment while also reducing the risk of prescribing medications before other treatments have been tried.
Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.
High - quality early care and education (ECE) is critical to positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, but the current financing structure of ECE leaves many children without access to high - quality services and does little to strengthen the ECE workforce, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
In addition, you and your child have access to all the additional resources and amenities offered in the hospital, including our full - service Family Center.
If you are a parent or legal guardian who has discovered that your child has registered for or accessed the Service without your consent, you can ask us to remove any unauthorized information provided by your child by contacting us at [email protected] or [email protected].
«It's encouraging that the government's green paper proposals have recognised this, but to really transform children's mental health provision, we need all schools to have access to dedicated funding, support and training to be able to source, commission and evaluate services effectively.»
«Parents should be able to access the information necessary to make informed choices when deciding on a child care service and have confidence that they are entrusting the care of their children to a compliant and reputable provider.
«The Quality Support program is yet another way the NSW Government is ensuring all families, regardless of their background, have access to top quality early childhood education services for their children,» Ms Mitchell said.
Those challenges include making sure children have equal access to services, finding well - trained teachers, and blending funds from various sources, the report says.
Housed in the Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social sServices, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social servicesservices.
Because the current system, with all of its flaws, ensures that many of America's most vulnerable children are given access to special services and, whenever possible, significant exposure to a regular educational environment, parents and advocates oppose reforms because they fear losing the opportunities that children now have.
I want to support children and families who are living overseas who may not have immediate and convenient access to educational, developmental, and health services in their primary language.
We also hear from Pew Research that some 5 million households with school - age children do not have high - speed internet service at home, which leads to a «homework gap» for students who need access the most.
White children are much more likely than otherwise similar racial and ethnic minority children to receive special education services in the U.S. Ensuring equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) means making sure all children with disabilities are able to access the services to which they have a civil right.
Longfield also referenced a consultation she held with children in order to find out about what mental health services they had access to.
An estimated 200,000 citizen children whose parents have been protected under DACA will live with increased fear for their parents» safety and may lose access to services if their parents avoid interactions with governmental agencies, including meetings with teachers and school administrators, for fear of deportation.
Finally, children who have ever lived with someone with mental illness participate in special education at a statistically significant higher rate — by 3.3 percentage points — than those who have not; they are 6.5 percentage points more likely to access services.
All refugee children and adolescents to be protected against violence, abuse, and exploitation, including child labour, and have access to national systems and services delivered in a protective way, including health and psychosocial support.