Sentences with phrase «experiences with homelessness»

Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Among Poor Children Experiencing Homelessness or Residential Instability (PDF - 1,674 KB) Institute for Children and Poverty (2010) Analyzes how a family's experiences with homelessness, poverty, and residential instability over the first 5 years of a child's life are associated with incidences of intimate partner violence.

In addition, the trial judge should have considered a whole range of factors such as age, the difference in age between the girls and the accused, the impact of the girls» addiction, their need for shelter, and their past and ongoing experiences with homelessness and prostitution.

Sending a dog out to multiple homes is not ideal for the dog that may already be pretty unsettled by their experience with homelessness.

Not exact matches

A family friend who works as a concert photographer saw the photo and put her in touch with board members of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, an organization that provides food, housing, and social services for those experiencing poverty and homelessness.

The author, a Japanese Christian, tells how a Taiwanese Christian helped him to deal with the spiritual homelessness that he experienced by going to live in other cultures.

Working with people who have experienced offending, homelessness and addiction, Resco runs a 16 - week employment programme that gives them the tools and confidence they need to break the cycle of unemployment.

Rather than walk past somebody who's experiencing homelessness, stop, spend a few moments of your time with them because it can make so much difference,» she said.

He reminded me of long nights, struggles with homelessness and poverty and desperation that I had experienced over the years, and the power of pure worship to shout down life's loudest dins.

We as Christians have been entrusted with loving our brothers and sisters experiencing homelessness.

Open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, Midway provides women and children experiencing homelessness with much more than shelter and meals including case management, support groups, job training, mental health services, and a Children's Program.

Frustrated and challenged by his volunteer experiences with traditional charitable responses to hunger and homelessness, Robert pioneered a new model aimed at liberating people from the conditions of poverty.

The Wellspring Baby Boutique serves families with children ages 0 - 17 who are experiencing homelessness and poverty.

She has worked with people experiencing homelessness, English language learners, and people who are HIV - positive.

Research has demonstrated that such experiences intersect with homelessness (Fitzpatrick et al, 2000), but the scale and pattern of these intersections is not yet known and understood.

To shift thinking on multiple exclusion homelessness away from «a priori» organisational categorisations, toward inductive analyses which start from the perspectives of people with relevant first - hand experience.

Many of the people we work with face homelessness, have suffered abuse, have experienced trauma in childhood, are battling addictions or struggling with mental health problems.

RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner of New York State Homes and Community Renewal said, «Today's announcement builds on Governor Cuomo's commitment to ensuring that working families, seniors, people with disabilities, and those who have experienced homelessness have high - quality, affordable, safe places to call home.

Longshot NYC candidate Mike Tolkin says he'll be sleeping in City Hall Park with no money, food, or change of clothes — though he will have his smartphone to live cast and tweet the experience — in order to bring attention to the homelessness crisis.

«This policy is an irresponsible «no room at the inn» approach that does nothing to address the record number of people experiencing homelessness in New York City as winter approaches,» she said in a joint statement with General Welfare Committee Chair Annabel Palma, which called on the Bloomberg administration to reverse the policy.

For their final products, teams of students documented the lives of people who have experienced homelessness, and presented their multimedia projects at a local gallery with the homeless people they interviewed in the audience.

Minneapolis - based People Serving People is a non-profit whose mission is to provide services to assist families experiencing homelessness in becoming self - sufficient and reconnected with their community.

OSSE's Homeless Education Program is designed to assist children, youth and their families experiencing homelessness with educational supports.

Josh Laurie has 10 years experience managing programs with students who experience homelessness, foster care, juvenile justice systems and the transition to college from K - 12 systems.

All Board employees are expected to treat children, youth and their families who are experiencing homelessness with respect, compassion and sensitivity.

Failing to comply with federal requirements could imperil $ 123 million in federal funds the state receives for programs that assist children experiencing homelessness, live in poverty or whose parents are migrant farmworkers, among other initiatives.

Working with federal policymakers, she advocated for programming to better serve at - risk students, including children who have experienced trauma and homelessness, those who have been incarcerated, and those with special learning needs.

So districts must be prepared to serve every child — including children with disabilities, children from immigrant families and dual - language learners, children who are experiencing homelessness, and children who've experienced trauma.

NAEHCY also provides students with a number of resources that range from tips for accurately completing the FAFSA to podcasts on college access for students experiencing homelessness.

Her research interests include children and youth experiencing homelessness and other forms of mobility, students with disabilities, and teacher quality.

Rhea lost her mother 14 years ago but is still saying good - bye with letters describing her struggles coming to terms with her sexuality, gaining and losing love, and experiencing homelessness in NYC.

For assistance with issues related to students experiencing homelessness accessing higher education, contact the NAECHY Higher Education Helpline.

New York City is experiencing an ongoing crisis of family homelessness and displacement due to domestic abuse, with an increasing number of families sleeping in shelters every night surpasses 13,000 and counting, a number that includes 23,000 children.

Conceived to keep animals out of shelters when their humans experience financial strain or homelessness, FFFRP offers food, bedding, leashes, collars, treats as well as spay / neuter services, vaccinations, and training with the default motto, «If you are in need, we take your word for it.»

PAW Team is the only organization in the area with the sole mission of providing free life enhancing and lifesaving medical care to the pets of those experiencing homelessness or living in extreme poverty.

United Spay Alliance (USpA), whose purpose is to eliminate pet suffering and homelessness by promoting affordable access to spay / neuter resources in partnership with state referral programs, has hired experienced Washington, DC lawyer Bruce Myers to lead the recently formed nonprofit organization.

The Portland area is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of homelessness with no end in sight.

«Not only with the food help to feed the pets of our Kamloops Food Bank clients, but we're also planning to share it with our local chapter of the BC SPCA and an organization named Four Paws Food Bank who provides free pet food to pet parents experiencing homelessness or living in shelters in the Kamloops area.»

A hike in the Presidio through a Crissy Field Center program or a campfire opens up experiences that are important for all youth — but may not be accessible for youth dealing with homelessness.

RedLine residents also have opportunities to work closely with communities in Northeast Denver through programs that engage students at local public schools as well as youth and adults experiencing homelessness.

The mural will be a platform for dialogue with neighbors experiencing homelessness, and serve as a marker that unhoused peoples are part of our community.

Her work in the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience, ranges from the link between social life and the media to architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.

Persons with disabilities are more likely to report having experienced hidden homelessness.

She also has experience dealing with homelessness reviews and appeals, ASB injunctions and housing disrepair cases.

Their team of lawyers help young people from backgrounds of disadvantage that are experiencing legal issues to do with family violence, fines, interactions with authorities, debts and homelessness.

«The Homeless Youth Legal Network is a fine example of how the American Bar Association can link youth experiencing homelessness with experts in the legal community who can help,» ABA President Linda A. Klein said in a press release.

Improving the ability of veterans, people with disabilities, people experiencing homelessness, tribal members, immigrants or other vulnerable or targeted populations to access appropriate legal information and assistance.

Provided individual therapy to men and women adult clients experiencing homelessness and diagnosed with a variety of presenting problems including Depressive and Anxiety Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Trauma and Stressor - Related Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Personality Disorders, and co-morbid severe mental illnesses.

Coordination with multidisciplinary groups of professionals including: law enforcement, probation officers and attorneys, chemical dependency counselors, mental health practitioners, community paramedics, faith based organizations and other providers who work with individuals experiencing poverty and homelessness.

Every year 600,000 families with 1.35 million children experience homelessness in the USA.

School district liaisons are required to ensure that young children experiencing homelessness have access to and receive Head Start, early intervention programs (Part C of the Individuals with Education Act), and preschool programs administered by local educational agencies.