Sentences with phrase «communities feel safe»

The goal of these gay - straight alliances is to make school communities feel safe and welcoming to all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

«I think if you're going to urinate on someone's property, on your child's school, then there should be the expectation that you will face arrest and I think that is the foundation for making sure all communities feel safe,» he added.

«We have had only approximately 50 percent of our homicides solved since 2007, but the manpower on the street has continually increased and the budget has continually increased for that, and that doesn't make communities feel safer,» Redden told lawmakers during the hearing, held in Council Chambers in City Hall.

«They were here as a presence to make the community feel safer.»

Not exact matches

«We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,» he said.

We give those virtually and freely in the TLS community (The Lasting Supper) it might be a great place for you to feel safe sharing your identity.

I have a very high standard for community safety as a result of my own experience, so it is no small thing for me to say that I feel safe at TLS.

To decide to live in a mostly white community with no thought as to why it feels safer or mandatory for your family is to disengage.

Dan and I struggled to find a faith community in which we could be honest about our ideas, and while my online connections flourished, it took a long time for me to feel safe opening up to my new friends in Dayton.

I have completely given up on the idea of finding a church that I can feel safe in and find true community in.

As an Atheist my uncle doesn't object to God and religion because even though he doesn't believe, he feels it makes life a little safer in his community, rationalizing that some may be diverted from crime based on their fear of God.

Often, they just need to be loved and feel safe enough to know they can expose this part of themselves in a community where the addiction isn't crushing them every second.

Tiggy said; BTW, I go to a Metropolitan Community Church — that's a church where gay, bisexual, and transgender people can feel safe and validated as loved children of God.

Most of the people I've encountered are looking not for a religion to answer all their questions but for a community of faith in which they can feel safe asking them.

I feel really happy that «Evolving in Monkey Town» has become a diverse and active community where visitors feel safe sharing their ideas...

Ethical Kitchen has become one of healing places not only because they serve nourishing clean food I feel safe to eat, but also knowing how they contribute to the community, I feel the care and love that is beaming from this little restaurant.

We believe that every member of our community has a right to feel safe, physically and emotionally.

I vowed to find my true self again personally and I feel safe saying that out loud in my special momstown community.

While Enlightened Mama has changed size and venues over the years, the mission remains: to be a safe space for community - building, evidence - based education, & unbiased support to empower individuals to feel confident & THRIVE in whatever they are doing — birth, parenting, breastfeeding, professional development, & their overall journey in life.

Families belonging to small communities and ethnic groups in particular feel safer and stronger as their population increases.

Enlightened Mama is a safe space for community - building, evidence - based education, & unbiased support to empower individuals to feel confident & THRIVE in whatever they are doing — birth, parenting, breastfeeding, professional development, & their overall journey in life.

But some people are going to co-sleep regardless and because of that I feel as though our medical community has an obligation to provide information about safe co-sleeping practices.

«You can air all of these things and you can develop this community but you still feel kind of safe because it's from a distance.

«The country's extremely low crime rate means it's safe, and the general feeling among parents is that the community can be trusted to help look out for its own,» she writes.

Also, although I intuitively felt that bedsharing was totally natural and safe, my husband very strongly believed that we should follow the recommendations of the medical community and abstain from bedsharing.

The Sands Online Community provides a safe space for bereaved parents to connect with each other and share their feelings 24 hours a day.

Speaking about the way she wants to raise her children, the author and actress has said, «It really is about the tone you set, and you can talk until you're blue in the face, but kids watch what you do every single day of your life, all day long, and that behavior and that example and that love and community and honesty is just, I think, what's making everything feel safe for my kids.»

A community where our hearts feel safe and we love one another.

I run a modest but pretty vocal community of people who take issue with the current state of breastfeeding promotion (as well as people who are totally cool with breastfeeding promotion, but ended up using formula for whatever reason and are willing to put up with the constant drama and debate because they have few other communities where they feel safe asking questions about formula feeding).

A coalition of social justice and community activists Thursday demanded that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000, arguing that such an increase is unjustifiable given what they characterized as the department's poor record on solving homicides and making residents feel safe.

«Sometimes they are in a situation where they may not fully understand or they may know people involved, and so having another tool, like, we're always looking for those additional tools that we can have in the toolbox to ensure that we can make our community safe and ensure that our residents feel safe in our community.»

If Sen. Thompson were truly interested in making his community safe he would do everything in his power to stop letting thugs like this roam the streets freely instead of pushing a useless, feel - good bill.

Jessica Neidl, president of the Washington Park Neighborhood Association, said a community that feels safe and interesting requires forethought in planning.

I applaud this effort to ensure that immigrant New Yorkers feel they are safe and that cooperating with local police is in everyone's best interest to ensure the safety of our communities,» said State Senator Gustavo Rivera.

«I would like to think as you get more companies that are properly registered down there, customers will feel safer and people in the community will feel more comfortable,» he said.

It should make people feel safe, but also give them the opportunity for livelihood in the community, Perez Williams said.

«We must take proactive steps to take guns out of the hands of criminals so that our streets are safer and the law - abiding members of our community feel empowered in their neighborhoods.»

Hitting a serious yet strident tone, he added: «I urge the prime minister to come up with the resources needed... so that all our communities can truly feel safe in their own homes.

Noting the increase in deportations both nationally and locally, including a New Paltz resident who was taken into custody recently by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is slated for removal from the United States, Rodriguez said he wants to make sure Ulster County residents feel safe in their communities.

«It's going to help in suburban communities where middle class families are just trying to survive and they want to feel safe,» he said.

The investigation into the officer's involvement in the shooting is ongoing but at a recent community meetings some African Americans said they do not trust or feel safe around the police.

«They feel safest in Staten Island, they were fully aware where the community would welcome them and allow that to happen,» Ragbir said at a panel discussion at the Urban Justice Center in Manhattan.

For our community to truly thrive, people must be safe and feel safe, in all our neighborhoods.

«It would be nice to see more things happening in the community that makes people feel safe and want to be in this area, as opposed to rushing through it to get wherever they need to get.»

«We want our immigrant community to feel safe and welcome in Westchester County.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie also weighed in on the fatal incident saying, «Gun violence continues to plague communities across the nation and that it has found its way into workplaces, schools and hospitals, where the most vulnerable among us should feel safe, is reprehensible.»

«Therefore, we feel it is vital to empower every individual in the community to help bring about a safer sporting environment and culture for their young athletes, but also for us to provide them with the tools they need to be able to make that difference.»

By loving fearlessly, and feeling endlessly, we contribute to saving the world in a culture that's becoming a community, separatism becoming oneness, and collective action that's starting to work together, men and women, for a better, cleaner, safer, and more loving, caring world.

When we don't feel safe or supported by our community, we may not be comfortable eating in their company, or even being a part of their traditions.

As we have seen with the recent attacks on yoga for people of colour classes in Seattle, there is a need within yoga communities (and beyond) for spaces that are safe and enable access for people who don't feel welcome in studio classes.