Sentences with phrase «cultural minority groups»

It has also been implemented in the service delivery field with several language and cultural minority groups, including Native Americans.

It will prioritise research into: children who have experienced trauma; young people at risk of offending behaviour; carers — particularly those caring for someone with depression and anxiety; elderly Australians especially those in residential aged care; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, refugees and other potentially vulnerable cultural minority groups.

Among those are preservice teachers» understanding of and ability to address student differences, the nature of the change process in schools implementing differentiation, achievement impacts of differentiation in middle school, elementary, and high school settings, and profiles of teachers whose classroom practice enhances success of students from low - economic and / or cultural minority groups.

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They are almost twice as likely as the next closest segment (61 % to 34 %) to say that Canada should be focused on encouraging cultural diversity instead of integrating minority groups into mainstream Canadian society.

Repressed groups like Gays and minority religions are rising up and WINNING in the cultural war.

Simultaneously the white, Anglo - Saxon, Protestants among these «mainline» groups were suffering cultural and economic eclipse on other fronts as «minority» Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, and persons of no religious affiliation improved their relative positions in the society.

Neither have they served minority groups, neglecting to program for their cultural, racial, artistic and justice concerns.

By 1990, the cultural diversity began to change slightly as shown by census reports of 94.8 % Caucasian residents and 5.2 % minority residents, with the largest minority group being Asian (3.7 %).

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

The authors start from recent developments in citizenship theory — an area in which Kymlicka's ideas on the rights of minority cultural groups have had a major influence.

Establish a minority support group or other cultural outlets, since some minority graduate students drop out of graduate school because of dissatisfaction with the social life rather than the intellectual environment.

In five studies among three groups and seven cultural contexts, researchers from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the US show that the same psychological processes explain mutual outgroup hostility between non-Muslim Westerners, Muslim minorities living in the West, and Muslims living in the Middle East.

China has some strong programs when it comes to using the native languages of minority groups for school instruction, according to a report published in 2005 and released online in July by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.

In summary, an advocacy approach to assessment of children from minority groups involves identifying the pathology that exists in the power relations between dominant and dominated groups in society, in the reflection of these power relations in the interactions of schools and communities, and in the mental and cultural disabling of students from minority groups that takes place in classrooms.

There are some 26 minority ethnic groups here and all celebrate various festivals throughout the year, making it a fountain of cultural interest.

Exploring issues regarding the loss of cultural identity, his work particularly focuses on the effects within minority groups and individuals existing on the fringe who are challenged to assimilate within the larger community.

Guang Peng, Baiyinnar, July 2017 The Oroqen are one of oldest ethnic minorities in Northeast China and have cultural and linguistic links to numerous ethnic minority groups spread across Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and out to Siberia across the Russian border.

A couple of weeks ago opened A Major Minority, an amazing group show featuring the work of contemporary urban artists from around the world curated by graffiti artist and curator Poesia, who is also the editor of Graffuturism.com and the cultural instigator at the center of the growing interest in abstract, progressive and hybrid Graffiti art forms.

His participation in arts organizations included his role as a founding member of Spiral, an association of African American artists that came together in 1963 to support the civil rights movement; his 1964 appointment as the first art director of the newly established Harlem Cultural Council, a prominent African American advocacy group with several hundred members; and his role in concert with artists Ernest Crichlow and Norman Lewis (with seed money from the Ford Foundation), as a founding member of Cinque Gallery which supported young minority artists.

15 months after its creation by the Quebec government, and after extensive public hearings in all regions of the province on the issue of how far society should go to accommodate requests for religious and cultural adjustments from individuals from minority groups, the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences finally released its report and recommencultural adjustments from individuals from minority groups, the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences finally released its report and recommenCultural Differences finally released its report and recommendations.

The Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences was created by the provincial government last spring after a number of incidents involving clashes or controversies between members of minority groups, in particular religious minorities, and the members of the highly secularized French - speaking majority that overthrew the restraints of... [more]

With Canada's demographics changing rapidly, he knows minority groups will continue to grow and demand legal representation that matches their own cultural needs.

According to a new report from the American Lung Association, environmental factors, biological factors, cultural attitudes and biases in the health - care system conspire to make this deadly disease even deadlier among members of this minority group.

The Human Rights Committee confirms that specific cultural rights held by a certain group are «conferred on individuals belonging to minority groups and [are]... distinct from, and additional to, all the other rights which, as individuals in common with everyone else, they are already entitled to enjoy under the Covenant [of Civil and Political Rights]», General Comment 23 The rights of minorities (8 April 1994) paragraph 1.

Two categories of non-discriminatory differentiation protected within a human rights framework are the right to express one's cultural identity, referred to variously as minority rights or cultural rights [109], and the provision of measures by governments to facilitate the advancement of members of certain racial groups who historically have been disadvantaged by discriminatory policies.

In the General Comment the HRC discussed the importance of political participation in the context of the need to protect the particular cultural relationship of minority groups to the use of land resources, particularly in the case of Indigenous peoples.

It is suggested that minority groups who enter this country voluntarily may be more motivated and skilled, as well as have more cultural connections than African - Americans.

Three reviews, bridging somewhat different topics and using different methods for comparing the efficacy across groups, have all concluded that minority children and families appear to benefit as much as or more than other groups from evidence - based interventions like those proposed here.75 At the same time, because the success of a program depends importantly on participants» remaining engaged until they complete the program, as well as the fidelity with which the program is delivered, cultural adaptations that increase the likelihood of optimal delivery and receipt of these programs to practitioners, parents, and children would seem well warranted.76

To do so would deny a minority group enjoyment of its cultural identity.

Children from minority cultural groups can encounter differences between the rules and expectations required at school and those they are used to at home.

[109] For minority groups within States, including Indigenous groups, it can refer to cultural, linguistic, religious or political autonomy.

There has been significant resistance from Indigenous groups to their rights being equated with the rights of cultural minorities within a particular State.

Family support programs may address the general population or target particular groups such as ethnic and cultural minorities; adolescent parents; kinship caregivers; or families facing health, mental health, or substance abuse issues.

Principles relating to self - determination, non-discrimination, equality before the law and minority group cultural rights have been interpreted as requiring governments to work with Indigenous peoples in a fair and open manner.

An area of publishing, presenting, and grant writing that family therapists in healthcare settings must stay especially attuned to is cultural sensitivity, cultural humility, and the ethical implementation of research studies with vulnerable populations and minority groups (target indicators 6.4 b and 6.4 c; AAMFT, 2018).

This strongly suggests that more needs to be done to find suitable adopters to care for those children whose needs are well known and all too familiar — children with complex health needs or disabilities, children from minority ethnic, cultural, religious and language backgrounds, older children and sibling groups.

In addition, there are also certain circumstances where it is appropriate to recognise the distinct cultural characteristics of particular groups, especially minorities.

Despite these findings, concerns remain that ethnic minority populations, particularly those with relatively recent migration histories, may benefit less from parenting interventions that are developed in dominant cultural groups in North America and Western Europe (e.g., Miranda et al. 2005).

Cultural differences are important for families but if offered sensitively standard programmes still seem to be helpful in minority ethnic groups.

Hispanic Group, an independent, minority - owned agency that specializes in customized communications solutions across all disciplines of advertising, traditional, digital and social media, branded content, direct response services and experiential marketing to the varied and fast - growing segments of the Hispanic population, today coined a new term «Bebe Boomers,» to describe the growing Latino population boom and the shifting cultural landscape in the U.S.