Sentences with phrase «for children in their neighborhoods»

Demand for the film has been high, and some fans have even been organzing special viewings for children in their neighborhoods who may not otherwise be able to attend, courtesy of the Black Panther Challenge, started by Frederick Joseph, who was surprised by star Chadwick Boseman and talk - show host Ellen DeGeneres for his efforts.

But the federal initiatives around education seldom take such a holistic approach; instead, competing departments engage in bureaucratic turf wars that, while fun within the Beltway, are tragic for children in our neighborhoods.

Education Matters envisions a West Contra Costa where our leaders are united in driving toward an excellent school for every child in every neighborhood in our community, enabling our students to reach their full potential.

We live in the same community and are both involved with our neighborhood parks committee where we have worked together to keep our parks safe and clean for the children in our neighborhood.

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In four and a half years since Sarah Shaoul started a website for BlackWagon, her children's boutique in Portland, Oregon's trendy Mississippi Avenue neighborhood, she's worked with four search - engine optimization consultantIn four and a half years since Sarah Shaoul started a website for BlackWagon, her children's boutique in Portland, Oregon's trendy Mississippi Avenue neighborhood, she's worked with four search - engine optimization consultantin Portland, Oregon's trendy Mississippi Avenue neighborhood, she's worked with four search - engine optimization consultants.

I used to babysit for a child who lived in my neighborhood starting when I was 14 years old.

I've addressed the importance of geographic mobility in supporting income mobility from the perspective of providing parents options for better neighborhoods in which to raise their children.

In 2014, administrators transferred Cruz to an alternative school for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities — only to change course two years later and return him to a traditional neighborhood school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»

Each April, yard signs spring up in all the affluent neighborhoods in town, proclaiming support for an event aimed at children ages ten through fourteen.

This was all so that my best friend and I could spend some time traveling in Europe where we would meet irresistibly handsome and rich identical twins with Australian accents (we had a thing for the, «G'Day, Mate,»), get married on Regis and Kathy Lee at Cinderella's Castle in Disney World, and then live next to each other, raising adorable little children in our idyllic neighborhood.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

If you believe that firm attachments and stable relationships build human capital, you had better offer early education for children in disorganized neighborhoods.

What about the parents who never had children, and didn't have the money to adopt, and didn't qualify for foster care, but still took care of needy children in their neighborhood?

Our mothers and fathers, and the children when they got old enough, were involved on several fronts in order to make the social soil suitable for growth: the neighborhood, the white world that tried to put immovable stones in the soil, and the church that helped provide moral and spiritual (and often political) sustenance.

People buy in these places to maintain their property values and create safe neighborhoods for their children.

From Town & Village, a neighborhood newspaper here, in a story about the New York Theatre Ballet: The company, which has reparatory seasons and revivals of long - lost chamber masterpieces, is also well known for its hour - long adaptations for children.

I hope «Christianity» is the right religion, if it is not then I have wasted a lot of time and money, or perhaps not, for if one lives up to the values, beliefs and principles of true Christianity that one would be one of the nicest people to live on Earth with and as a child of 6 I realized I did not like any of the people in my neighborhood very much, not much at all.

Unemployment in the South Bronx was at 45 percent; of the 1,900 to 2,000 children enrolled at Morris High School, only about 65 graduated each year; and, many of the children were afflicted with asthma, something Kozol associated with the neighborhood's incinerators for discarded medical supplies.

Dressing up in a child - sized bunad for Syttende Mai parades in the Scandinavian - rich neighborhood of Ballard, eating the traditional feasts my grandparents would serve us on holidays, listening to the heavy and melodic accent that wove its way through my relatives» speech — this was my upbringing and I loved it.

«One night a week my wife and I have a class for neighborhood children in street games,» he said.

This weekend has lots of fun in store: Music and dance exploration for preschoolers at the Duraleigh Road Community Library in Raleigh, Christmas tree - lighting ceremonies in lots of Triangle towns, breakfast with Santa in Durham, a bird - watching hike in Raleigh, an art market in Raleigh's Boylan Heights neighborhood and pay - what - you - can admission day at Kidzu Children's Museum in Chapel Hill.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

There were exhibit booths featuring items like tiny ultrasuede capes for $ 100, «cute little things that cost a lot of money, «said Larysa Holowatyj, owner of Golden Goose Children «s Boutique in the Streeterville neighborhood on the city «s Near North Side.

Thus, corporal punishment in a high crime neighborhood as part of a controlling parenting style is more likely to be part of the parents» efforts to assure their children's safety, and less a part of the parents» need for control and authority.

Matos - Real, who grew up in Chicago's West Town neighborhood, said he wants to make certain that district programs for children «continue to be accessible.»

If you call for aid obtaining the child seat developed in your vehicle, you could take it to a neighborhood automobile provider along with ask that they make use of assist with the setup.

The Great Hope Family Center in the Little Village neighborhood provides food to about 100 families each month as well as meals for the 160 men, women and children who stay at its shelter.

Juhlin, who raised four children in Rogers Park and who now lives along Sheridan Road in Edgewater, says that although much of the neighborhood has changed — and not for the better — «you've still got the beach.»

Chicago police were searching for two men wanted in the attempted abduction of two children Saturday in the Rogers Park neighborhood.

The reader - driven awards program, in its third year, recognizes the best parenting brands, products, and neighborhood services and resources for families with children ages 0 - 10.

«There are a lot of children in this neighborhood, but there's really no safe place for them to go,» said resident Kim Coppens.

As a result, in a neighborhood with an intense concentration of deep disadvantage, like Roseland, it is next to impossible for large numbers of children to get the kind of help they need to make it out of there and to make it to a really successful adulthood.

Whether you're going for a stroll in the neighborhood or running errands through the city, the 7 AM Enfant Duo Blanket allows you to keep your children snuggly warm.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

So we are trying a new charter school in the area for next year for my oldest while my next child will stay at the neighborhood school.

When owner Jessica Roubitchek noticed the lack of children's activities in her neighborhood, she decided to take matters into her own hands and create one for her nearly 2 - year - old daughter.

All help out in small ways, but no one is taking ultimate responsibility for the fate of all the children in the neighborhood.

The couple, Robert and Mildred Tong, parents of three children, had paid $ 50 for the commemorative brick last October as part of a fundraising effort to help pay for new playground equipment in Senn Park in the Edgewater neighborhood.

We found that the scooter was a bit unreliable for our young children when we used it on sidewalks in our residential neighborhood, where driveways and other inclines and dips disrupted the smoothness of the ride.

And then I come home and see the beauty of our culturally diverse neighborhood; projects yes, but a dozen countries represented, children tearing about in the nearby parks hollering at each other in a dozen different languages, and I know our multi-cultural-ministry hearts are planted here for a reason.

She actively teaches the Ruhi children's class material developed by the Ruhi Institute, and has developed a supplemental curriculum for children ages 0 - 2 and ages 3 - 5 which has been very successful in her work at the neighborhood - level building community with families.

Representatives from social service agencies in Chicago Lawn, Logan Square and Woodlawn will travel to New York City in the coming weeks to attend a multi-day conference and a «practitioner's institute» for organizations that are interested in launching Promise Neighborhoods, an initiative of the Obama Administration modeled on the Children's Zone.

The 9 - acre park, to be completed in November, will feature a playground, a sled hill, an outdoor ice skating rink, a wood chip mountain bike path, an asphalt jogging and bike path, a sand volleyball court and an open field for neighborhood children to play on.

The grants are going to: Ravinia Festival, $ 300,000 over three years for arts education and programming at Lawndale community organizations; Chicago Children's Museum, $ 80,000 for general operations; Steppenwolf Theatre Company, $ 80,000 for general operations; Association House, $ 75,000 for its integrated arts program; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, $ 75,000 for general operations; Northwestern University Settlement Association, $ 75,000 for arts programming in the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods; and WTTW - Ch. 11, $ 75,000 for the Artbeat Chicago program series.

While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.

Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.

Two children were struck and killed by a car while in a crosswalk in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, police said, at an intersection that has long been considered hazardous for pedestrians.

The various infrastructure development in the state are to further enhance the welfare of government workers in particular: quality and affordable schools for their children, affordable medicare, good neighborhoods to live in, good roads to drive on without the frequent wear and tear on their vehicles.

'' [The project] represents a chance to evaluate the direction of development in Williamsburg and ensure that we are creating opportunities for everyone to afford to raise healthy children and families in this neighborhood,» Adams said.