Sentences with phrase «faced by young people»

At Council for a Strong America, we believe that focusing on early childhood education is the key to preventing most of the pitfalls faced by our young people today.

Whilst there is a considerable literature on the difficulties faced by young people leaving local authority care, much less is known about how children who have been brought up in kinship care get on as they reach their late teens and early adulthood.

Exceptional schools can make up for grave disadvantages faced by young people.

It highlights the barriers faced by young people with intellectual disabilities — and the power of sport to change that.

«This high ranking within our research of the most harmful challenges faced by young people may surprise many, but not those who have been watching this for some time.

Dr Pam Alldred, Director of the Centre for Youth Work Studies at Brunel, said: «There is a gaping need for training on the gender - related violence faced by young people.

«Whilst we welcome the intention behind the audit of public services to address racial disparities, the fact is that in education, the Department for Education is already in possession of a wealth of evidence, much of it provided by NASUWT, on racial and other inequalities faced by young people, teachers and the education workforce in general.

During the last general election, Kenny Imafidon produced the awardwinning «Kenny Report» blogs, which were designed to raise awareness and articulate the challenges faced by young people and disadvantaged communities.

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Still, even critics allow that having an HSA is better than no coverage, which is exactly the circumstance faced by many start - up entrepreneurs and the people they recruit to come work for their young companies.

Youth employees are referred by local nonprofits including Beyond Emancipation and Not for Sale, groups that support young people who have been in foster care, lived on the streets, or faced other significant hardships.

In recent months, we have seen many news reports of gay people being beaten, set on fire, or killed, and there have been numerous cases of young gays who have been driven to suicide by the vicious discrimination they face on a daily basis.

On many occasions as I've walked through Union Square here in New York, I've been asked by fresh - faced young people to sign anti-fracking petitions.

You could say that the list of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.

I have three reasons, each of which is directly related to the context faced by Paula and other young people growing up in a postmodern world.

There are front - facing carriers, which many people feel are a great option, while others say that a young child may become overwhelmed by all that is going on if they must face outward in the carrier.

«It's proving to be one of the best and quickest ways to help young unemployed people into jobs in the face of a frequent reluctance by employers to hire someone with little or no experience.»

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

The founder of the Young Britons» Foundation, Donal Blaney, is also a controversial figure in the Tory party - he faced accusations of racism, and a complaint by the Commission for Racial Equality, when he ran a Fulham Homes for Fulham People campaign while a councillor in the borough.

This event featured speakers from organizations including the Ali Forney Center, Hetrick - Martin Institute, Depressed Black Gay Men, Caribbean Equality Project, Audre Lorde Project and others with the goal of raising awareness about the challenges and barriers faced by LGBTQ young persons of color.

Knowing how — and especially when — to intervene for such young people is a fast - shifting frontier of medicine — one with even more ethical and cultural minefields than are faced by transgender adults.

«We face another danger,» worries Ljungqvist: «the use of doping substances by mainly young people.»

Davies» films have always supplied strong female roles (think Gena Rowlands in «The Neon Bible,» Gillian Anderson in «The House of Mirth» and Rachel Weisz in «The Deep Blue Sea») and this story, which followed an ordinary farm girl in the 1910s with a dream of being a teacher, who begins to assert her independence in the face of cruelties dealt by people ranging from her abusive father (Peter Mullan) to the initially sweet young man (Kevin Guthrie) who falls in love with her marries her, only to come back from the horrors of World War I irrevocably changed.

The whole «two people walk around a city and fall in love» plot has been done — most notably by Richard Linklater with his «Before Sunrise» / «Before Sunset» / «Before Midnight» trilogy — but by making his young lovers into the future President and First Lady of the United States, writer - director Richard Tanne easily clears one of the biggest hurdles facing anyone trying to grab an audience.

The public hearings being held by the Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth is an important step in further addressing the needs of young people who daily face hostile environments in our schools.

MCC announced on Monday the appointment of its inaugural Youth Advisory Board (YAB)-- a diverse group of teens who will help shape MCC's youth - focused work by exploring some of the most pressing ethical and moral dilemmas facing young people today.

She said:» Young people today face unprecedented pressures posed by modern technology.

Children and young people with mental health difficulties face a ten year gap between displaying symptoms and receiving help, a report by the Centre for Mental Health has said.

The Bright Ideas Challenge is a new national, curriculum linked schools competition, which will challenge young people age 11 - 14 to assume the role of future scenarios planners and to use their STEM learning to imagine creative solutions to the types of energy challenges that cities in 2050 will face (by 2050 it's estimated that 3 out of four of us will live in cities).

The report argues that this is because disadvantaged young people are constantly held back by social mobility hurdles their wealthier peers do not face.

Labour will guarantee young people independent and face - to - face advice, delivered by careers professionals trained to give information and guidance on academic and vocational qualifications.

Described as building respect and connection with others by «showing your human side,» teachers might do this by sharing a learning challenge they faced as a younger person or new skills they are learning now as an adult.

Throughout this school year, Facing History will mark 40 years of working with teachers and students worldwide, not by looking back but by looking forward, together, to help young people find and focus on the things that connect rather than divide us.

Via OC Register by Jalen Rose Many young people in America today face a harsh reality.

Using data from recent surveys of young people conducted by Public Agenda, the article describes a guidance system in which one - half of all students believe their guidance counselor sees them as «just another face in the crowd.»

This campaign comes as young people across the nation face an onslaught of proposals that aim to reconstruct the school - to - prison pipeline by effectively militarizing schools with armed teachers, police officers, and metal detectors.

By providing content and pedagogy that increases teacher effectiveness and stimulates students to learn at the highest level, Facing History works to bridge the opportunity gap that impedes success for young people in under - resourced communities.

Schools minister Nick Gibb reportedly advised MPs that young people should face more frequent tests in secondary school, to better prepare them for the exam stress they experience by the time they take their GCSEs.

Other community school initiatives also have taken up the call of My Brother's Keeper — to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color so all young people can reach their full potential.

She also flagged up the Oxfordshire Caremark — an audit tool awarded to schools if they meet requirements across seven strands: barriers faced by LAC young people's voice, success, progress, learning and teaching, multi-agency planning and governance.

A few people in the crowd placed hands across their chests as I walked by and I recognized faces: Mr. Porter, the young carriage driver whose son always had a runny nose; Mrs. Whittaker, her cabbage cheeks ballooned in talk; little Frances Gilbert, Lizzie's least - favorite Sunday school pupil, scratching up her wild hair, her squirrel eyes gazing at the house.

In this way, the IBP Business Plan forces me to face situations similar to those encountered by young people and others new to Dividend Growth Investing — folks either unable to commit significant capital or uncomfortable doing so.

The charity's campaign, Every Blind Child, aims to raise public awareness of the challenges faced by young blind people, 90 per cent of whom continue to grow up to face social and economic crises.

Whether your clients are drivers suffering from catastrophic trucking injuries, parents caring for negligently injured children, patients facing the horrors of medical malpractice (a fear every patient can connect with on some level), or young people who made a mistake and are being excessively charged by aggressive prosecutors, you — the lawyer — are ultimately a character in a story that people find compelling.

«It's proving to be one of the best and quickest ways to help young unemployed people into jobs in the face of a frequent reluctance by employers to hire someone with little or no experience.»

If you're being aggravated by these fresh - faced young people who don't quite know how the work world works yet — or if you'd just like to ensure your interns have a reasonably good experience in your organization — my column today at U.S.. MORE

If you're being aggravated by these fresh - faced young people who don't quite know how the work world works yet — or if you'd just like to ensure your interns have a reasonably good experience in your organization — my column today at U.S.

«16.9 per cent of the goals set by young people using online counselling were related to intimate relationships whereas none of the goals set by those using face - to - face services were related to this.

The authors found that 16.9 % of the goals set by young people using online counselling were related to intimate relationships whereas none of the goals set by those using face - to - face services were related to this.

Existing research1 quoted in the report, which analysed goals set by young people on Kooth, has shown that they are more likely than those using face - to - face counselling to:

The report argues that the disproportionate disadvantage faced by young Indigenous people has the potential to increase and further entrench the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians over the coming decades unless greater effort is made now to reduce the inequality that they face.