Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged members of the community»

Executive Director Karen Dyck envisions the Legal Help Centre as a place ``... to assist disadvantaged members of our community to access and exercise their legal and social rights.»

Amend the Residential Tenancy Act to close loopholes allowing landlords to unfairly raise rents or evict tenants, protect tenants with pets, and increase compensation to tenants who are being evicted because of landlord use and renovations I urge you to take these steps to empower the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of our communities in a substantive, timely manner.

The proposed recommendations for change across the legal system will help empower the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of our communities in a substantive, timely manner, said the groups.

Our vision is to assist disadvantaged members of our community to access and exercise their legal and social rights.

Almost nowhere in any post-Budget announcements have we seen any reference to the most disadvantaged members of our community, and the impact that budget cuts will have on those who are already excluded from health services because of barriers such as poor access to primary health, lack of access to prevention programs, poor health literacy, and most of all, cost.

She is a Partner of Salvos Legal, delivering pro bono legal services to disadvantaged members of the community in family, criminal, immigration, and administrative law matters.

Darwin Community Legal Service (DCLS) is a free, confidential service that assists disadvantaged members of the community to protect their legal rights.

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These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

ERIE COUNTY, NY - Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined today by elected officials and members of the business community as he signed his 18th Executive Order, mandating that Erie County construction projects of over $ 250,000 and involving at least three workers shall include requirements to employ local and disadvantaged workers.

«It will disadvantage communities of color and communities of working class individuals,» said Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who was joined by Comptroller John Liu, State Sen. Bill Perkins, and City Council members from across Manhattan.

«With almost half the Australian population being members of their local library, and over 110 million library visits each year, we know that libraries play a vital role in bridging the digital divide, connecting communities to the online world and reaching out to some of the most disadvantaged members of our society,» she said.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was a leading member of the school choice advocacy community, and Donald Trump has called for a congressional bill that would fund school choice for disadvantaged youth, stating that «families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them.»

Forbes recently named 14 educators — including six prominent members of the HGSE community — «revolutionary educators» who are «shaking up how we educate our most disadvantaged kids.»

Derrick Johnson, the NAACP's interim president and CEO, called on the hundreds of members in attendance to «speak for our seniors, whom we must care for; all of our young people, whom we must train and develop; all of the disadvantaged, not only in our community but in every community.»

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization provides technical and financial assistance, small business outreach and training services that help members of the nation's small business community compete for and participate in federally funded contracts.

Lifting such regulations in order to allow community organizations to provide legal services to their members and constituents, and, in particular, to the poor and disadvantaged, is one of the first recommendations that was made by the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor.

The dinner will bring members of the Canadian legal community together to honour a lawyer, a national law firm, a regional law firm and a community service organization for their distinguished service in the provision of pro bono legal services to the poor and disadvantaged.

His clients range from the very rich to the most disadvantaged members of our society, and he is extremely proud to receive referrals from most of the varied ethnic communities in the Greater Toronto Area.

My clients range from the very rich to the most disadvantaged members of our society, and I am extremely proud to receive referrals from most of the varied ethnic communities in the Greater Toronto Area.

From my perspective, the assumption (as articulated by members of the profession) that visible minority licensees are not relatively disadvantaged is simply incorrect and even though the statement of principles decision has been made, there continues to be resistance within the legal community including pieces in Law Times, The Toronto Star, The National Post, CBC and page 30 of The Middlesex Law Association's December newsletter.

The Melbourne Social Equity Institute is a «virtual» research institute which connects researchers from a range of disciplines with community members, practitioners and policymakers to identify unjust or unfair practices that lead to social inequity and work towards finding ways to ameliorate disadvantage.

the investigating constable believes on reasonable grounds that, having regard to the suspect's level of education and understanding, the suspect is not at a disadvantage in respect of the carrying out of the forensic procedure by comparison with members of the Australian community generally.

First established in 1971 and now numbering 150, they connect with disadvantaged community members, strengthen the resilience of the community and provide culturally appropriate comprehensive care.

Governments can also reduce disadvantage by protecting the most vulnerable members of the community from budget savings measures.

She is a Cairns — based lawyer with LawRight, a Community Legal Centre which coordinates the provision of pro bono civil legal services to disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the cCommunity Legal Centre which coordinates the provision of pro bono civil legal services to disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the communitycommunity.