Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged groups experiencing»

It is known that child health and health behaviours vary according to socio - economic characteristics, with more disadvantaged groups experiencing poorer health.

Students from disadvantaged groups experience two to three times the average gains from smaller classes than middle class white students.

Not exact matches

Through my experience in schools and talking in particular to head teachers, I saw that there is a group of young people who aren't just disadvantaged economically.

As such, «The Dark Horse» is as good a title as any for a film that takes an overplayed genre — the inspirational mentor story — and still manages to surprise, sneaking up to deliver a powerful emotional experience within a formula we all know by heart: After suffering a nervous breakdown, a Maori chess champ volunteers to coach a group of disadvantaged kids.

The greater gains experienced by students from groups that are traditionally disadvantaged in education were retained when those students were returned to standard classes;

IDRA's analysis of STAAR student group performance rates, college readiness outputs, graduation rates and dropout rates reflect significant gaps between economically disadvantaged and non - economically disadvantaged students and between EL and non-EL students, in spite of some success individual economically disadvantaged and EL students are experiencing in classroom across Texas.

This is particularly the case for livelihoods and households that have limited asset flexibility and / or those that experience disadvantages and marginalization due to gender, age, class, race, (dis) ability, or being part of a particular indigenous or ethnic group.

«As legal organizations working on behalf of marginalized and historically disadvantaged groups, the members of the Coalition each have extensive experience with the obstacles faced by such groups in accessing justice and therefore in enforcing their constitutional rights and other legal entitlements.

Their experience of disability and therefore the barriers they face differ because of their disadvantaged social and economic conditions; the additional disadvantages they may experience because of their identification with other groups, for example, ethnic groups; further disadvantages they may experience due to the status they are accorded within these groups, for example, status resulting from age, gender, and sexual orientation; the type and severity of the disabilities they experience; and other disadvantages experienced because of the way that laws are written and implemented.

Some examples of the additional disadvantages experienced by persons with disabilities belonging to various other groups follow.

The disadvantages and marginalization experienced by persons with disabilities, and therefore the barriers to accessing justice they experience, will be heightened depending upon whether they also belong to certain other groups, for example, ethnic groups, and on their status within those groups, for example, status accorded as a result of age, gender, and sexual orientation.

Subsection 15 (2) protects laws, programs or activities from being found unlawful under s 15 (1) if they have as their object the improvement of the condition of persons or groups that have experienced disadvantage based on a number of grounds, including mental or physical disability.

This contribution is manifest in the likelihood that at least some newly - licensed lawyers who are members of historically disadvantaged and excluded groups may be more willing or able to provide legal services to everyday people who are members of those same groups, and others, who experience lack of access to justice.

Trans individuals are among the most disadvantaged groups in society and routinely experience discrimination, prejudice, harassment and even violence, said the Commission.

It must take an intersectional approach, recognizing that particular groups of women and girls — including First Nations, Inuit, Métis, racialized, disabled, refugee, immigrant, transgender, lesbian, bisexual and single parent women and girls — experience particular forms of discrimination and deepened disadvantage.

Reducing judicial sentencing discretion means that judges are less able to consider the circumstances of the offence and ensuring that any sentence is responsive to the historic disadvantage experienced by offenders from marginalized groups, including women.

This allows courts to be responsive to historical disadvantages experienced by offenders from marginalized groups in society, including women, particularly those for whom disadvantage is compounded by the intersection of vulnerabilities.

Human rights legislation has an important public function: it was created to end discrimination and to further the rights of vulnerable groups who have experienced exclusion and historical disadvantage.

Some examples of the additional disadvantages experienced by New Canadians that also belong to various other groups follow.

The disadvantages experienced by New Canadians will be heightened depending upon whether they also belong to other groups identified by their ethnicity, age, gender, or sexual orientation.

Pre-existing disadvantage, stereotyping, prejudice or vulnerability experienced by the individual or group at issue.

An ameliorative purpose or effect which accords with the purpose of s. 15 (1) of the Charter will likely not violate the human dignity of more advantaged individuals where the exclusion of these more advantaged individuals largely corresponds to the greater need or the different circumstances experienced by the disadvantaged group being targeted by the legislation.

Section 15 (2) and its jurisprudence clearly illustrates that its purpose is not to benefit a historically dominant group that has not experienced disadvantages in society.

The indicators of childhood deprivation and development focused on indications of disadvantage since it is these groups who experience the worst adult health outcomes, whereas several other studies also distinguish particularly advantaged childhood circumstances which increase the gradients observed.

First, our results indicate that groups of children exposed to different adverse experiences do not necessarily overlap; for example, most of the children experiencing maltreatment or social isolation did not experience socioeconomic disadvantage.

The disproportionate distribution of extreme levels of stress in disadvantaged communities has been cited as a contributor to the persistence of poor health outcomes for low - income populations.84 — 87 We used focus groups with young adults who grew up in economically distressed urban communities to capture these stressful experiences.

The evaluation of the early effects (short - run) of SSLP found mixed effects, with beneficial effects for some groups, but adverse effects for children from families with higher needs and experiencing greater disadvantage.3 Results from the second phase of the evaluation were more positive.

It is true that there are some groups of people in our society who are more likely than others to experience disadvantage and transgressions of their basic rights.

In Australia, Australian Aboriginal2 people are disproportionately represented in the most disadvantaged groups, experiencing poverty, unemployment, discrimination, challenges with educational outcomes and poor housing disproportionately compared with non-Aboriginal people [4 - 6].

Nevertheless, these informal kinship carers and the children they look after, remain an overlooked group who experience high levels of poverty and disadvantage with little or no statutory support.

Adolescence is an important decade in a child's development, marking the period of transition from childhood to adulthood.7 Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable group, experiencing a third of all new HIV infections worldwide, 8 high levels of violence, lower school attendance and enrolment than primary schoolchildren, early marriage and higher levels9 of sexual abuse victimisation.10 Furthermore, adolescence is a time where the intergenerational transmission of poverty, violence victimisation and perpetration, gender inequalities and educational disadvantage manifest themselves.9

Although beneficial for all children, these early childhood learning opportunities are especially important for children in disadvantaged groups as they play a critical role in reducing the impact of negative early experiences and in redirecting their development into a more productive trajectory.

Now I note that you said today that there's been great improvement over a short period of time, and I'm sure there has been, but you know it's interesting to me, and again I will say this because I come from a country myself where there is a disadvantaged community and a lot of government programs et cetera, it's of serious concern the extent of the dramatic inequalities that are still being experienced by these population groups when they represent only, you know, no more than 2 % of the population of a highly developed, industrialised state, and I just, it makes me wonder about things like the effectiveness of the programs, monitoring, benchmarking, what are the standards, is anybody watching this to see whether or not they really are designed to meet the disadvantages that are real in the communities, you know the real history of systemic discrimination, institutional racism?