Sentences with phrase «focused community approach»

«The success of our intensive and focused community approach is evidenced through triple Gold validation under the Climate Community and Biodiversity Alliance Standard; the first project in Africa to achieve this level of recognition.»

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Below, Plange describes how she enjoys the company's eco-friendly approach and focus on giving back to the community.

Uber's promise has centered on getting effective transportation for less, but Lyft has opted for a more personal approach by focusing on building a community and establishing trust.

Quality is our top priority; our approach to client service focuses on the challenges of high - growth companies, the road to IPO, and a commitment to the venture community.

In another approach to standardizing what responsible mining looks like on a global basis, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance has brought together a group of major mining, electronics, jewellery and steel companies, NGOs, affected communities and labour unions to establish a multi-stakeholder and independently verifiable responsible mining assurance system, focused on improving both social and environmental performance.

He said the C of E has become so disconnected from deprived communities that its mission approach is «entirely focused on the needs and aspirations of the wealthy».

The broad HIV / AIDS community, based on mounting evidence, is rightly and highly skeptical of approaches that focus solely on promoting abstinence and faithfulness (however desirable these goals).

We have applied this approach in Cameroon, focusing on two clusters of community forests that border protected areas in the country's southern region — one cluster that's adjacent to the CampoMa'an National Park and another that's near the Dja Biosphere Reserve.

«As we approached 10 years as a national brand, we spent the past ten years focusing on the impact our company can and does have on communities across America, using food as a force for good.

This national effort includes a «Community Initiative» that calls for a focused, aggressive, multi-pronged approach in neighborhoods within select cities where for a variety of reasons there has been less consumer interest in — and thus less access to — bottled water, lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverage choices.

Our minimalist approach keeps us focused on providing the best coffee, pastries and service to our community.

Our goal is focused on the success of our tennis students on the long term of their career instead of the «win by next week» approach that sadly prevails in the tennis community..

Being grounded in progressive education principles means the school community has a child - centered approach to learning that focuses on the social, emotional, and academic needs of each individual.

The highest rates of normal birth seem to be associated with successful community focused approaches.

Because we believe that parents need the most support and our focus is on Arab communities, we started by offering these tried and tested approaches to Arab parents.

Working With Families: A Collaborative and Empowering Approach — Weber Community Center, Los Angeles, CA — workshop for a clinical team working with Full Service Partnership / Wraparound families in South Central Los Angeles focusing on working with families, including a discussion on family systems theory, family therapy approaches, and creating therapeutic alliances with the whole family unit.

Her treatment approach focuses intervention in the natural setting such as home, community and school to promote speech generalization.

The Program Committee is especially interested in proposals on the topics of: • Psychopharmacology • Psychotherapy • Diversity & Culturally - Informed Services • Fathers, Families, and Partners • Innovations approaches to prevention and care • Peer Support & Community Networks Please note that presentations should focus on advanced and innovative skills.

By focusing on youth, addressing critical education and health outcomes, organizing collaborative actions and initiatives that support students, and strongly engaging community resources, the WSCC approach offers important opportunities that may improve healthy development and educational attainment for students.

«We can reverse the 30 year decline of the upstate economy and keep our families together, but it is going to take a fresh approach and new ideas that focus on investing in our communities,» Babinec said.

Fortunately there is enough evidence out there that suggests where police authorities have abandoned their racial dragnet approach and focused more on intelligence - led policing, three aspects not so miraculously happen: disproportionate stop and search figures go down, crime detection goes up and community relations between the police and those they seek to serve dramatically improve.

The proposal, to be included in Cuomo's 2018 State of the State address on Jan. 3, approaches gang violence from a community - engagement angle instead of being strictly focused on law enforcement.

Debates have since raged about how to effectively reduce the state, to move on from a fictional New Labour «statist» approach, and to focus on concepts of community instead; Blue Labour is one prominent example.

Thousands of experienced colleagues have worked side - by - side with Bob to develop and deliver M&T's successful community - focused approach, including a Management Committee comprised of members with an average tenure of 24 years at M&T.»

I look forward to seeing it work closely with Community Planning Partnerships to provide transferable evidence which will focus on ways of designing in a preventative approach, liberating the system from duplicated costs and creating the conditions to nurture community - led enterprises to improve outcomes in their local areaCommunity Planning Partnerships to provide transferable evidence which will focus on ways of designing in a preventative approach, liberating the system from duplicated costs and creating the conditions to nurture community - led enterprises to improve outcomes in their local areacommunity - led enterprises to improve outcomes in their local areas.»

Senator Amedore's four - pronged approach to addressing the addiction issues in our communities focuses on prevention, treatment, recovery services, and giving law enforcement the resources they need to get high level drug dealers off the streets.

That approach, which focuses the densest development in the vacant Terminal A and B buildings next to the former Freezer Queen facility, is a vision «built from decades of community input,» said Jill Jedlicka, the nonprofit group's executive director.

Drug policy has focused on a policing approach of prohibition and incarceration, which has contributed to spreading HIV within the injection - drug community.

The study focuses on how these approaches help coastal communities reduce their risk of flooding and erosion, as well as additional benefits, and the tradeoffs when decision makers choose one type over another.

This is also the goal of many other current research projects of the Department of Computational Systems Biology, which focuses on research on pathogens, microbial communities and molecular interactions between species adopting a system - oriented approach.

Among their recommendations for health policymakers and caregivers are the need to engage community - based care «receivers» earlier in the transition process, to adopt a palliative care approach with patients and their families that sets realistic care goals, and to focus not only on preventing hospitalization, but also on making out - of - hospital transitions easier.

According to Dr. Charles Hillman, professor of kinesiology and community health at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and lead author on this issue of Monographs, «these results point to the important potential of approaches focusing on physical activity for strengthening children's brain health and educational attainment.

We left a wonderful community and coworkers in Seattle to move closer to family in Colorado and start a new clinic focusing on the natural approaches to gut health.

(1) The dramatic failure of Alzheimer's clinical trials is due to the medical community's approach to research, which is primarily focused on developing a «miracle drug» for AD and fails to take into account the multitude of factors that contribute to this complex chronic illness.

This community - focused approach can inspire you to take your health and fitness to the next level.

Community and workplace education, along with a family and friend focused approach to promote heart healthier families have become an encompassing strategy, as women remain the primary health care decision makers in their family domain.

This interracial dating community helps you to find your true lover by following a practical approach which focuses on the needs of the persons who are seeking their perfect match.

«Our niche dating approach focuses on critical relationship factors such as race, religion, and lifestyle, helping singles streamline their search from the beginning, and giving them vibrant communities of people who share the factors they consider most important in a partner.

Since «Guffman» in 1996, when Guest revived the pseudo-documentary approach he had helped pioneer with «This Is Spinal Tap,» his movies in that style have focused on show biz of some sort — community musical theater, a dog show, a folk concert reunion — and the laughs stem from the characters» ambivalence about indulging their wildest ambitions, and their inestimable faith in the magnitude of their (or their dogs») own talents.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Uprooting the problem will require a multipronged approach that addresses inequalities across the board and focuses on improving not just schools but entire communities.

An approach to professional development that combines collaborative, local learning communities with a focused pedagogical framework.

They will be designed to be flexible and community ‑ focused, with a multidisciplinary approach that considers teaching and learning models, the physical campus, future technology, and the students» entire experience.

69, Ed.D.» 72, would seek his help in brainstorming his latest venture — University of the World, a global university focused on a community - based approach in the classroom.

Each entry in Education World's «Partners for Student Success» series focuses on a school or district that has taken a unique approach to bringing together the school, its parents, and the community to help ensure student achievement.

An education development organization founded in 2008 that focuses on transforming communities through education and opportunity, the Dignitas Project — unlike many non-government organizations (NGOs)-- does not approach urban slums as dense concentrations of human need where charitable work in «emergency mode» or through traditional methods will have a desirable effect.

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

APPROACH A) We should focus on ensuring that every child has access to a good public school in their community.

• Best approach for improving education: 77 percent said the focus should be on ensuring that every child has access to a good public school in his or her community; just 20 percent said there should be more public charter schools and vouchers.

Her research focused on how schools support personalized, social - emotional, and blended learning, how school community members experience these approaches, and how education systems can support these methods.