Sentences with phrase «family meetings children»

Family Connections and Family Connections - Baltimore help families meet children's basic needs and prevent neglect.

Not exact matches

I watched her when the graduates met their family members and you can see that the «everything» to her is the bond between incarcerated men and their children and wives.

As a result, the services and support provided by CMIT have enhanced ALSL's ability to meet the needs of children and families in the community.

Frequent moves, gaps in resumes, child - care struggles, and a lack of support services forces spouses to remain unemployed and families struggling to make ends meet.

In real terms, even if this target is met, this means just 24 Aboriginal children will get to stay with their families — leaving more than 4390 in government care.

With a pre-tax household income of $ 35,360 annually, the two - income family would still fall short of meeting basic needs for two children in every state.

And Cheryl's prophesy that day at Pepperdine did indeed come true: I wrote a lot of checks to Children's Outreach over the years, often without knowing how we would meet our own family's obligations.

First, build a support group — a set of relationships with other adults and families to meet your needs for adult companionship and your child's need for relationships with adults of both sexes.

In this case both the marriage counseling and the play sessions for the children were continued for a while, with occasional meetings together, until the family felt they could continue the new communication patterns at home on their own.

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

The accusations say children were forced to meet and forgive the accused, and pastors failed to notify other families — so the perpetrators went on to prey on other children.

Concerning therapy: if a mother finds herself controlling her children, then indeed, she may wish to meet alone with a professional licensed family counselor.

The equal - regard interpretation of neighbor love fits the needs of the postmodern family faced with a new range of issues around shared authority, more equal financial power, and more nearly equal roles in raising children and meeting each other's needs in the midst of the 80 - hour work week.

We urgently need to design pastoral strategies (and even select the times for our meetings and worship services) according to the needs of that great mass of excluded people who form part of non-traditional families: single mothers, families divided by divorce, grandmothers who raise their grandchildren, widows, orphans, street children, etc..

At the bishops» meeting, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput asked, given this research, what do most social scientists think about same - sex families and child well - being?

If that happens, failure to meet standards could lead to demands to attend some formal schooling, and failure to register could become a criminal offence, with inspectors able to enter family homes and interrogate children without parents or other adults being present.

Designed to meet the demands of «Boise's growing numbers of affluent families, who sought high - status schools filled with high - status children,» it is a school «created by elites for the children of elites.»

She bustled into her house, only to emerge, minutes later, with a huge tray of cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, which she carried to our porch and offered around with her ready smile, simultaneously feeding and greeting the children of a family she had never met — and a black family at that — with nothing to gain for herself except perhaps the knowledge that she had done the right thing.

The family was not simply a way for two people of different sexes to meet each other's needs and the needs of their children.

Having only just arrived at the World Meeting of Families, here we were at Panera, already impatient with our children, overwhelmed by the crowds, and angry with ourselves for failing to live up to the ideal of Catholic family life.

How better to prove this to my children than to take them to a world meeting of Catholic families?

We know it to be bred in families where children and spouses are abused and maltreated, where problems are met with force or threat of force.

With more than 260,000 youngsters in Scotland growing up in families struggling to make ends meet, supporters argue that a # 5 increase in child benefit could remove some 30,000 children from poverty.

Children are safe to play here and various common facilities are shared to meet the different needs of the larger family.

Four years later, Al was completely estranged from his family and cohabiting with his companion, and Laura had been civilly married to a man she met through her younger child's school.

Boy meets girl; boy kisses girl; boy and girl eventually (with a huge assist from Leah) create a family of tribes, the children of Israel, that's the way a love story is supposed turn out.

In fact, the respondents were relatively restrictive in defining close family even where legal criteria are fully met: only half of the respondents who actually had stepchildren defined those children as close family.

As children she always regaled my sister and I with stories from home and of our family that we were yet to meet.

We met Andy, the second generation farmer who inherited the family from his father and now his three children and their families are also working alongside him on the farm.

And then my son, who is normally about the most genuinely compassionate, sharing child you could ever hope to meet, learned that I needed to pass along some of this creation to Gretchen's family so they could try it.

These ingredients combine to make an offering that appeals equally to serious sports fans, families with young children, friends and colleagues looking for a comfortable place to meet, and others just looking for a great meal.

Brian Blanchard, vice president at Cookies & Crackers, says, «Goldfish Made with Organic Wheat expands our offerings to meet the needs of America's evolving young families, while delivering the same delicious taste children and parents have grown to expect from Goldfish.»

One new project I am excited about founding is Meet The Vegetables, a cooking class to introduce children and families to unusual seasonal vegetables to be held at our local children's museum, Wonderlab.

Hannah took us to her beloved Q'eros where we met the most generous families and children in the harshest climate and...

In a paper presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry in Houston, Dr. Coddington reported that he had elicited confidential family information from more than 700 New Orleans high school players last year while their coaches kept detailed injury records.

According to Sara McLanahan of Princeton University, the principal investigator of the Fragile Families Study, if we were to design a system from scratch to ensure that a child's basic needs would be met, it would look remarkably similar to the two - parent family.

In order to address this deficit in service provision, and to meet the aspirations of new fathers and mothers, the Fatherhood Institute convened a consortium of family organisations, representatives of health professionals, and commissioners and providers of children's services.

• increasing the health visitor workforce so that the Healthy Child Programme is fully and consistently implemented to meet families» needs

The Toolkit is designed to help managers and practitioners meet the strong policy requirements for father - inclusive services coming from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, and elsewhere: in the Children's Centre Guidance, the Childcare Act 2006, the National Services Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services, the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, the Gender Equality Duty (in the Equality Act, 2006), and so on.

We met children forced to quit school and work when the complications of HIV / AIDS left their mothers too ill to support the family.

You are determined to find a school and community that will welcome you openly and meet the holistic needs of your child and at the same time align with your family's beliefs and values.

In fact, effective parenting helps your child learn to be accountable — to both accept responsibility for meeting the expectations of your family, and to develop the skills they need to meet those expectations.

No Child Wet Behind meets the needs of families in Arkansas by providing clean disposable diapers to those who need them the most.

There is no magic age for children to participate in family meetings, as long as they can share their voice.

When the children are young, family meetings may being at the dinner table, as meal times are very conducive to discussion.

We all work together to create an integrated, and coordinated early intervention system which meets the developmental needs of eligible children and their families.

Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.

Within a few days of a child being in your home, hold a family meeting.

You may feel like your family is complete with one child or you may feel like someone you haven't met yet is missing.

The program includes two match events per year that allow waiting children and families to meet and develop relationships that may last a lifetime.