Sentences with phrase «community schools for our children»

«It doesn't mean there aren't challenges,» concedes Jane Quinn, assistant executive director for Community Schools for the Children's Aid Society.

I choose great public community schools for our children.

Not exact matches

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.

Mr. Kassie is actively involved in community and charitable organizations and is the Chairman of the Board of Baycrest Health Sciences and is on the board of the Richard Ivey School of Business and was formerly on the boards of the Toronto International Film Festival Group and the Hospital for Sick Children.

Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

Play is disappearing at home, at school and in communities, particularly for the 14 million children living in poverty.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business communitycommunity

EDMONTON - Today, Rachel Notley announced that an NDP government will reinvest in Alberta's cities and growing communities through Family and Community Support Services (FCSS), which supports after school programs for kids, child development programs, and counseling for individuals and families.

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On Tuesday, August 22, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, Pew Charitable Trusts, and Save the Children hosted a back - to - school Twitter chat on the important role schools and related services play for children and communities following a dChildren hosted a back - to - school Twitter chat on the important role schools and related services play for children and communities following a dchildren and communities following a disaster,

The primary business of Hobby Quest is after - school programs for children aged 5 to 14 years old, working mainly with and in schools and community centers.

I work in California... what I do is behavioral based counseling for children who have behavioral issues, be it in the home or the school or community.

As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the community.

Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»

Do you have any advice or ideas for those of us at home with small children, or working the daily grind 9 - 5 jobs, or in school full - time to honor our commitments to family, work and school while simultaneously working to benefit our communities?

(See Anna Freud, The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children (New York: Schoken Books, 1946), and Barbara Biber, «Schooling as an Influence in Developing Healthy Personality» in Community Programs for Mental Health, Ruth Kotinsky and Helen L. Witmer (eds,)(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955).

If you think volunteering at a program that improves neglected schools with paint, construction, etc. in our community, or donating to a program that purchases christmas gifts for children of convicts (a program our church participates in every year) and I could list more... then I have no words for you.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

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.

The 32 resident children will obviously attend, but it will be a community school for up to 150 other kids.

Children from the Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overie lit candles — one for each of those who had died and a moving Act of Remembrance and Commitment was led by the Bishop of Southwark, The Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, together with representatives of the faith communities.

These services in Indianapolis may include the Community Mental Health Center, the family courts, the juvenile courts, the Suicide Prevention Center, child guidance centers, senior citizens programs, rehabilitative workshops such as the Goodwill Industries, schools for the blind or deaf, recreation and tutoring, housing and employment projects.

Play is disappearing at home, at school and in communities, particularly for the 14 million children living in poverty.

The Alliance works with schools, companies, community organizations, healthcare professionals and families to build healthier environments for millions of children.

Wigan Athletic Community Trust host soccer schools and dance camps for children between the ages of 6 - 14 duing school holidays.

Delecia Utley, a senior at Hillside High School in Durham, recently won a Community Builder Award from Durham's Partnership for Children.

«One thing we rarely stress with children, but which is crucial to raising a well - adjusted middle - schooler, is that their neighborhood and school are communities that they have a responsibility for.

We are working towards a broader tent for children in our schools, homes and communities.

We are invested in our school and community, actively volunteering our time to help drive the school's vision and community outreach, and in return St. Benedict Prep provides an incredibly personalized and values driven environment for our children to grow and thrive.

Our community includes Green Meadow Waldorf School (400 students, grades K - 12), the Pfeiffer Center (environmental education, biodynamic agriculture, and organic beekeeping), Eurythmy Spring Valley (movement art), Sunbridge Institute (Waldorf teacher education and adult anthroposophical studies), the Otto Specht School (Waldorf education for children with learning differences), the Fiber Craft Studio (healing senses and soul through work with plants and natural fibers), the Fellowship Community (home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foodcommunity includes Green Meadow Waldorf School (400 students, grades K - 12), the Pfeiffer Center (environmental education, biodynamic agriculture, and organic beekeeping), Eurythmy Spring Valley (movement art), Sunbridge Institute (Waldorf teacher education and adult anthroposophical studies), the Otto Specht School (Waldorf education for children with learning differences), the Fiber Craft Studio (healing senses and soul through work with plants and natural fibers), the Fellowship Community (home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural FoodCommunity (home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foods Market.

If your child has an early bedtime, look for a daytime parade, trick or treat or other early event, often sponsored by community, rec center, school or mall.

The Department developed the Action Guide for Child Care Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies (2010) to help local and community child care, early education and after school programs establish and implement policies and practices that encourage healthy lifestyles in chilChild Care Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies (2010) to help local and community child care, early education and after school programs establish and implement policies and practices that encourage healthy lifestyles in chilchild care, early education and after school programs establish and implement policies and practices that encourage healthy lifestyles in children.

With strict dietary guidelines that dictate what's on the lunch menu at Glen Ellyn's Community Consolidated School District 89, getting parents to buy lunch for their child when the selection is whole - grain pasta or broccoli with fat - free ranch dressing is proving to be a challenge.

Whether you're planning your child's birthday party, baptism party, a company Christmas party, holiday party, school assembly, community event, fundraiser or need a magician for your summer camp or daycare, Scott is Toronto's best bet for guaranteed wonder and laughter!

Right now we have a national obesity problem, so why aren't we asking for money to raise healthier students, to support coordinated school health, for more nutrition education, more collaboration with partners, parents and the community to encourage children to try new foods, to develop recipes, to provide technical assistance and set professional standards?

A common scenario in the small, farming community where my family lives is for a mother to stay at home with her children when they are young and then get a job at the school when her youngest child enters kindergarten.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding progChild Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding progchild nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding progchild care and summer feeding programs.

This fall Congress will reauthorize funding for the critical local programs that support healthy children, schools and communities, including School Breakfast Programs, National School Lunch Programs, WIC Programs and Farm to School Programs.

Keynote Speaker at WA State Head Start / ECEAP Conference ⋅ Jewish Family Service of Seattle ⋅ Hutch Kids at Fred Hutch ⋅ The Annual Women's Leadership Conference ⋅ Fenwick & West LLP ⋅ Starbucks Coffee Company ⋅ Villa Academy ⋅ The Entrepreneurs Organization (EO Seattle) ⋅ Lake Washington Institute of Technology ⋅ Madison Park Cooperative Preschool ⋅ Magnolia Cooperative Preschool ⋅ Mercer Island Preschool Association ⋅ Mothers of Multiples ⋅ North Seattle Central Community College ⋅ Program for Early Parenting Support - PEPS ⋅ Saint Catherine School ⋅ Seattle Central Community College ⋅ The Woodinville Toddlers Group ⋅ West Seattle Preschool Association ⋅ North Queen Anne Preschool ⋅ Cascadia Elementary ⋅ Redmond Toddler Group ⋅ Kirkland Cooperative Preschools ⋅ Inglemoore Cooperative Preschool ⋅ Crystal Springs Cooperative Preschool ⋅ Sandhurst Cooperative Preschool ⋅ The Redmond Toddler Group The Bush School Parent University ⋅ University Child Development School ⋅ MOPS of North Seattle North Seattle French School ⋅ Community Elementary School

She directed The School, a non-profit parent cooperative preschool in Palo Alto, and later directed Neighborhood Infant Toddler Center for Palo Alto Community Child Care.

Meanwhile, in connection with the event, the Food Revolution Community has renewed its effort to gather over one million supporters for Jamie's petition seeking better school food for, and the teaching of home cooking skills to, children.

When you join Corvallis Waldorf School, you are joining a community of parents and professional educators who are striving to create an unparalleled educational opportunity for children based on the pedagogical insights of Rudolf Steiner.

Many parents have referred to the time spent in our community as «two educations for the price of one,» meaning that a Waldorf school not only develops the heads, hearts, and hands of our children, but also those of our partners, families, and selves.

The vision for Berkeley Rose has always been to offer children a school that can be their home from preschool through 8th grade — to build a school that provides community for families for a decade or more as their children move through the grades.

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Families best served at SWS are those whose values are compatible with the culture of the school as an educational community, who share SWS's educational goals, and who seek the unique character of Waldorf Education for their children.

Cosmas, the Buffalo Grove mother of two, was instrumental in getting her school district and park district together after an acquaintance, a single father, told her how much less he was paying for child care through a school - park program in a neighboring community.

We offer a full continuum of care for families in crisis, including community - based counseling, foster care and adoption services, and a therapeutic nonpublic school for children with special needs.

The federal government reimburses states and schools for the cost of the meals, and any school or qualified community agency can use these programs to ensure that no child goes hungry.