Sentences with phrase «cultural barriers faced»

Home visiting services have been found to reduce the language and cultural barriers faced by families and ensure that parents receive the support and resources they need to promote their child's healthy development, despite the obstacles presented by poverty.

American Indian Child Welfare: Crossing the Financial and Cultural Divide (PDF - 1,321 KB) Casey Family Services Voice Magazine, 9 (3), 2009 Discusses the financial challenges faced by Tribal communities that prevent the support of foster care within their community, and cultural barriers faced by Indian children who are placed in the State foster care system.

Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice McLachlin spoke a few hours ago at the Canadian Institute for Administration of Justice (CIAJ) conference in Saskatoon, with her comments focused on barriers to access to justice, especially cultural barriers faced by Aboriginal people.

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Based on the above, UKTI commissioned the ECR program in combination with the PIB service to, among other things, allow companies to employ foreign - language - speaking students at U.K. universities and other British institutions of higher learning to address issues related to language and cultural barriers that companies may face in entering particular foreign markets.

Feeling «caged in» was an entirely appropriate sensation while viewing the images of people who had themselves faced all kinds of physical and cultural barriers in their flight from conflict.

Immigrant students facing language and cultural barriers are another part of the mix, adds Paris Svoronos, chair of the chemistry department at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, New York.

«In rural settings, there are often barriers to health services that women face, including stigma, cultural concerns of confidentiality and trust, lack of anonymity, and lack of access and providers.»

These are some of our most high - risk students because they face language and cultural barriers in addition to needing basic school skills, yet there's not a lot of easily accessible information to help teachers support SLIFEs.

Similar to the automobile industry, manufacturing at large too faces the challenge of workers dispersed across several geographies that leads to cultural and language barriers.

As a result, students of different nationalities face less of a cultural barrier which, in turn, breaks down any social barriers.Everyone mixes with everyone.

When ordering electronics from China, most people will face the high quantity requirements, quality issues and language / cultural barriers.

Our commitment to fostering creativity goes far beyond our residency program; we also support arts education initiatives, cultural exchange programs, and special programs and fellowships designed to help artists and writers facing physical, cultural and political barriers to creative expression.

If a migrant is seeking refugee status from within Canada, the economic, social and cultural barriers to accessing justice are likely to be substantially greater than those faced by almost any other member of Canadian society.

The partnership will put more effort into reaching immigrant, refugee and non-English speaking victims who may face cultural or language barriers that prevent them from seeking help.»

For the casual travelers or anyone that has to travel for business, this could be extremely useful in navigating the cultural divide set upon by the language barriers that people face if they aren't able to speak in the native language of the country they're traveling to.

In this sort of work, there seems to be little or no consideration of the extra cost of overcoming the additional (e.g. cultural) barriers faced by Aboriginal people.

And too many women seeking help from family violence face significant legal, psychological and cultural barriers.

He further advocated that the issue of cultural security and the barriers that Aboriginal people face in using health services are important in any debate about funding Aboriginal primary health care.

TRENTON, NJ — Today is International Women's Day, a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political progress of women and to reflect on the barriers we still face to equality.

Parents can face a range of practical, material, social and cultural barriers to accessing services (Katz et al. 2007; MacQueen et al. 2007; Moran et al. 2004).

While cultural competencies and cultural safety courses are taking hold as «best practices» across many jurisdictions, this seminar lecture presents more overtly the idea that racism remains a significant barrier to optimal health care relationship, and thus optimal health, still faced by Indigenous peoples.

Cultural attitudes are hardly the only barrier to sale - leaseback transactions, especially in the U.K. Heretofore, tenants in the U.K., unlike their brethren in the U.S., have faced «upward only» rent review boards every five years.