Sentences with phrase «establish formal support»

The Parents Association (PA) was formed in 2003 to establish formal support of our active community of involved parents.

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Exploring the possibility of establishing formal structures, like a federal «Minister for Asia», to support Canada's relationship with Asia

To deal with situations in parliamentary systems where no clear majority to support a government exists, two or more parties may establish a formal coalition government, commanding a clear majority of the parliamentary members, or a party might enter into less formal alliances or agreements with other parties, or individual members, to allow the minority government to stay in office.

CRI establishes its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, the Institute's oldest formal grant program and the first program of its kind in the world, «for the support of qualified individuals who wish to receive training and experience in experimental or clinical cancer immunology.»

These schools may be operated by the government but are often established and supported by non-governmental organizations in remote rural areas and villages where formal Ministry of Education facilities do not exist.

But the United States has never established a formal mechanism to support studies of either type of geoengineering, and agencies have distributed just a few million dollars to researchers.

Improve employee satisfaction by implementing formal guidelines to help support your supervisors and employees in establishing flexible work arrangements for:

If divorce proceedings have begun, it's important to draft a formal separation agreement as soon as possible, establishing the spouses» rights regarding property, debts, temporary alimony, child support, and child custody.

With regard to financial support, of fathers who established paternity for their child at birth, approximately one - third enter the formal child support system by the time the child is 3-1/2, although not all of these fathers provide support regularly.

For those families who are not lifted out of poverty by formal child support payments, the assistance can still help close the «poverty gap» that these families face.3 In addition to the economic benefits, child support payments are associated with greater academic achievement and fewer externalizing problems in children.4, 5,6 Previous research also shows that fathers who voluntarily establish paternity are more likely to pay child support (despite being less likely to have a child support order), to pay more over the long term, and to increase their payments over time.7

In a study of unwed fathers one year after their children's births, Mincy, Garfinkel, and Nepomnyaschy found, using Fragile Families data, that strong enforcement, measured as a city or state's commitment to establishing paternity, increased the chance that fathers had seen their child in the past thirty days and that they had received an overnight visit from their child in the past year.47 A nuanced set of findings emerges from a separate study by Nepomnyaschy of the interactions between father involvement, and formal and informal support payments.48 Both formal and informal support payments one year after a child's birth raise the likelihood of father contact two years later.

Strategies: Promote respect fro traditional family values and systems of authority through formal recognition; support and resource forums, camps and activities that address social wellbeing for youth, men and women; identify demographic needs at the regional and local level, establish targets and performance standards and revisit State based policies; monitor effectiveness of parenting programs; ensure that information about existing government assistance programs and services is made available to all communities, organisations and individuals.

While the positive impact of informal support networks (i.e. family and friends) has been well established, limited research has investigated the role of formal support services (i.e. professionals, other services)[5].