Sentences with phrase «children need a community»

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The community health promoters are trained to know which women are pregnant, which children are sick and who needs extra nutrition.

He's made giving back to the community an integral part of his business, starting in 2012 when he began offering free classes once a month to The Little Light House, a tuition - free school for children with special needs.

As a result, the services and support provided by CMIT have enhanced ALSL's ability to meet the needs of children and families in the community.

Find out why children's hospitals need community support, identify your member hospital and learn how you can Put Your Money Where the Miracles Are, at CMNHospitals.org and facebook.com/CMNHospitals.

From making sure all children in Canada have access to a healthy breakfast to supporting first response efforts in the event of a disaster, Walmart Canada is committed to supporting families in need and building strong communities.

A woman of Métis heritage, she never lost sight of how the care system uniquely impacts First Nations, Aboriginal and Métis children and youth, and made their needs and the needs of Aboriginal families and communities a major focus of her work.

Natacha also offers free parenting classes in all communities, in order to give families the tools they need to raise happy, kind, independent children.

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.

In January, Esquimalt passed a resolution to draft a living wage document after its community social planning council calculated that a family with two children and two full - time working parents in the Capital Regional District needs to earn $ 17.30 per hour just to pay for the basics.

We joined an abusive, (house / semi-communal) «Bible» church primarily because it seemed to provide what we desperately felt we needed at that time, as a young couple, expecting our first child: Stability, Clarity of belief, «Coolness», Community, and a sense that we were joining something that promised it was going to have a great impact on the culture in the future, and we were thus getting in on the «bottom floor.»

To reach the fifth child, science has found an important partner in the faith community, which helps bring vaccines to the most remote areas and the children who need them most.

The individual needs of children reveal the needs of an entire community and so problems are solved from the ground up.

As parents, we need to work to ensure our children have a relationship with Jesus, not just a desire to be part of a loving community doing good.

Before you head overseas to be a father to children in other parts of the world, look around your neighborhood and community today to find who needs a father.

Wouldn't it be great if communities existed where ANY mother, married or unmarried, would feel welcomed and loved and known that her needs and the needs of her child would be attended to?

However, early in a crisis, children need to be protected, but should remain in their home countries until authorities can confirm the locations of their family members and explore adoption possibilities within their own communities and cultures.

Since man is moral — a «child of light» — he can achieve a degree of community harmony, but as basically self - serving — a «child of darkness» — his egoistic will - to - power needs to be checked.

«But they need to make sure the children aren't following an agenda that doesn't fit the community, because we need community cohesion and we need to prevent radicalisation.»

For some, such community and family support may be enough, said Giambalvo, suggesting that one way parents can support grieving children is to let them know that it is okay to talk with them about their sibling, how they are feeling, and what they need.

As we are seeking to do in Grove City, I believe our children need us to come together, community, church and school.

Schools that are racially integrated — assuming that the way integration is achieved promotes unity rather than division in the community — will have the greatest need and opportunity to provide those daily experiences that make this real for children.

Now that society rather than community set the standards, children needed a way to find out what the standards were.

These facilities are called for by the plan: (a) Community mental health clinics serving both adults and children are the main line of defense in reducing the need for prolonged or repeated hospitalization.

After gathering data from the schools, police, and social agencies that would confirm the existence of the need, this group succeeded in rallying the community to establish a child guidance clinic.

Sponsorship donations are pooled so that one portion goes directly to a child and his or her specific needs and another goes to the needs of the community.

Yet not too many of us think that we need to throw our children to popular culture willy - nilly, I can't think of anyone who denies the importance of a stable and loving family for a child, anyone who thinks that by creating a strong community we are abdicating our roles as parents, not at all.

Much more promising is the appearance here and there of day - care centers at the parents» workplace, and day care provided by parishes and temples where it serves the triple purpose of providing meaningful work for members of the community (especially older people), meeting a pressing need of the community's young couples, and beginning the religious education of the community's children.

Following an annual church dinner that took place the first Sunday of December, we provided numerous opportunities for our congregation to provide needed items for the homeless, battered women and children, poor Native Americans who lived on the reservation, and poor in our community.

In sum, The National GRACE Center will improve undergraduate and graduate training of Christians entering child protection careers; improve the ability of the Christian community to respond in a godly manner to the needs of child abuse victims, and provide training and technical assistance to churches struggling to address the sin of child abuse.

The Churches Child Protection Advisory Service says better community engagement is needed to prevent... More

Funds from each person sponsoring a child in a community are pooled together to meet the needs of all the children in that community.

It is a power that is shared, as life within the community is shared».62 We need to ask whether all people, as children of God, participate in the agencies of power or whether there are groups that are excluded on the basis of, for example, sex, age, handicaps, economic circumstances, social marginalization.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

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Nevertheless, we need to remind ourselves that the ethical burden for loving children and not treating them as commodities lies in the commitment by parents and community to love each child and to seek his or her fulfillment regardless of the child's genetic makeup or form of procreative origin.

They start by addressing the needs of children, and from there work to improve the conditions that surround them so that mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, siblings, and the entire community are all affected.

Sponsorship donations are pooled so that one portion goes directly to the child and his or her specific needs and another goes to the needs of the community.

World Vision takes a trickle - up approach to poverty that begins with identifying and addressing the needs of children and then works to address the root causes of those needs in the community.

Danza del Sol Winery is dedicated to supporting those in need or suffering children in the local community.

They also express concern that students without the deep and broad background knowledge and fluency that affluent children generally absorb from their homes and communities first need to develop that core knowledge before they can benefit from a collaborative, project - based approach.

The team is made up of the Foster Parent (s), a YAS Family Counselor, the child and his / her family, the county social worker and other community resource professionals (as needed) for the child.

Parents of children with special needs offer something of great value to any school or community.

One thing I've noticed about the professionals who serve the special needs community is that they often refer to the children as «our children,» as a way of distinguishing them from kids who are developing more typically.

Being grounded in progressive education principles means the school community has a child - centered approach to learning that focuses on the social, emotional, and academic needs of each individual.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

This misunderstanding may then lead to responses that focus on providing care for individual children rather than supporting the families and communities that care for orphans and are in need of support.»

It is also part of your responsibility to be more tuned to the needs of your child and her healthy development than to community norms.

«Local Authorities need to find new ways to ensure Sure Start Children's Centres «earn their keep» by allowing them to become genuine hubs for all children and families services in communities; reducing replication and improving Children's Centres «earn their keep» by allowing them to become genuine hubs for all children and families services in communities; reducing replication and improving children and families services in communities; reducing replication and improving impacts.

This was a turning point in my life, and although a difficult decision, I left my work again, to risk, and to start a magazine that filled the need of mothers like me, who love crafting, but could not easily find sources for natural materials and patterns that fit a natural lifestyle and conscious parenting, for mothers who not just enjoyed doing crafts with their children, but wanted to sit down at the end of a hard day's work and read, and create, within a community they belong to.

Coming in gorgeous patterns and textures, Lalu Wovens are dedicated to giving back to the babywearing community; for every wrap purchased, they donate a portion of the proceeds to Lift Me Up, a non-profit program dedicated to providing ergonomic babywearing carriers to families who have children with special needs.