Sentences with phrase «concentrated impact in communities»

Our goal is to make a concentrated impact in communities.

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Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.

Such provisions may have the most impact on single - site, community - focused charters, which might be concentrating on priorities other than standardized test scores and whose test results might therefore lag, at least in the first few years of operation.

Alongside this research, there is intervention, epidemiological, sociological and qualitative evidence all suggesting that local environments are important in supporting the family capacity necessary to raise children in ways that promote good developmental outcomes.6, 7 The neighbourhoods or communities in which people live appears to impact health and well - being.8 While «neighbourhood» is often used in other studies, in the Australian context «neighbourhood» and «community» are often used interchangeably (these terms are further defined on page 9).7 The research into neighbourhood effects on children was originally motivated by the observation that disadvantage seemed geographically concentrated and intergenerational.

Today's roundtable convened by the Federal government is a welcome step toward acknowledging the ongoing suicide crisis in Aboriginal communities and the need for an urgent concentrated effort to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal people and address the transgenerational trauma impacting on our communities.

Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.