Sentences with phrase «facing economic adversity»

Colorado Veterinary Medical Association member veterinarians have generously donated their time and opened their clinics to provide free wellness exams and rabies vaccinations to pet owners across the state who are facing economic adversity.

During the event, CVMA members generously donate their time and open their clinics to provide free wellness exams and rabies vaccinations to pet owners across the state who are facing economic adversity.

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Another important point to consider is that history has shown that a lack of financial interest in the property or «skin in the game» might make it easier for a borrower to walk away from the property when faced with economic adversity like a job loss, or a loss in property value.

Resilience in Black Families Hollingsworth (2013) In Handbook of Family Resilience View Abstract Explores how many African - American families are able to succeed in the face of social, economic, educational, and political adversities in addition to adversities that confront them at the level of the individual family; characteristics of resilient black families; the benefits of studying black families through the lens of resilience; and barriers that interfere with such study.

Protecting young children from adversity is a promising, science - based strategy to address many of the most persistent and costly problems facing contemporary society, including limited educational achievement, diminished economic productivity, criminality, and disparities in health.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.

For instance, stressful life contexts encountered in childhood and adolescence, such as family economic hardship, parents» marital conflict, or community adversity often increase the likelihood that these youth will face additional hardship (e.g., Conger et al. 2002; El - Sheikh et al. 2013; Wickrama et al. 2005).