Sentences with phrase «foster wider community»

We collect and disseminate scientifically sound water quality data to aid decision - makers and the public in protecting local waterways, and to foster wider community awareness and involvement in protecting water quality.

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The model has been used effectively in a wide variety of venues and settings: parenting, classroom, special behaviour programs, alternate education settings, therapy, correctional settings, aboriginal communities, adoption, counseling, and the foster system.

The Clinical Committee aims to foster excellence in the practice of immunological medicine, represent the wider Clinical Immunology and enhance communication between the scientific and Clinical Immunology communities.

With a focus on child and teacher factors, interactional and school wide processes, and community interactions, the Certificate Program employs an ecological approach that fosters child emotional and academic learning through a systemic lens.

Common Language: When we all agree to discuss, understand and solve problems using predictable, respectful and agreed - upon methods, we foster community - wide equity.

Collectively, CLASS represents 115,000 students, teachers, parents and other community members, and has also cast its net wider than traditional education advocacy groups to include parent groups, health advocates and foster youth organizations

School - Wide Programming • The School Counselor collaborates with the Ratner staff, parents, and students to implement school - wide programs that benefit the Ratner community as a whole, to foster a climate that promotes Ratner's core valWide Programming • The School Counselor collaborates with the Ratner staff, parents, and students to implement school - wide programs that benefit the Ratner community as a whole, to foster a climate that promotes Ratner's core valwide programs that benefit the Ratner community as a whole, to foster a climate that promotes Ratner's core values.

From 1990 to 2000, the Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Writers» Awards program provided financial support to free accomplished writers from other responsibilities so they could devote time to creating new works and partnering with community - based organizations to foster wider appreciation for literature.

Teaching Channel is continuing to help their growing community of teachers improve their craft, create a larger impact in their classrooms, foster a sense of a wider teaching community and, ultimately, create a sense of pride in the craft of teaching.

In this capacity, she integrates environmental justice in agency decision - making, supports community based action, and fosters administration wide action that promotes healthy, equitable, resilient and sustainable communities for overburdened populations.

It tries to foster a sense of community and energy among its wide range of members, who vary in terms of age, experience and writing genre.

Marquet and Koch were also responsible for coordinating the school - wide reading program designed to foster a sense of community.

«We are thrilled to bring in - app purchasing to NOOK with Fortumo for our community of developers so they can foster a profitable relationship with their customers, while also providing our NOOK customers with a more in - depth app experience and an even wider selection of popular apps,» said Claudia Romanini, VP of NOOK Apps, NOOK Media, LLC.

Spreading the word to our community about adopting, fostering, TNR, spay / neuter, etc. through schools and city wide events.

Her recent projects are motivated by civic and social actions focus on fostering relationships with a wide range of communities.

In the press statement, board president Tim Schrager says: «Breaking down the financial barrier allows us to expose a wider audience to contemporary art exhibitions and programs, and by doing so we believe Atlanta Contemporary can make significant strides in fostering community engagement.»

OPEN: a community - curated open studio / gallery project is a city - wide initiative designed by Young Arts Patrons to foster personal exchange between Memphis - based artists and their communities.

GO: a community - curated open studio project is a borough - wide initiative designed to foster personal exchange between Brooklyn - based artists, their communities, and the Brooklyn Museum.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco offers a wide range of programs and educational opportunities that foster connections, expand knowledge, create community, and enable visitors of all ages to bring new perspectives to artworks in our permanent collection and special exhibitions.

I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.

Optimizing its position within the University for the benefit of the wider community, the Clinic participates in interdisciplinary research, provides training and technical assistance for lawyers, judges, and other professionals, and produces legal scholarship and practice materials on the legal needs of children, with an emphasis on older foster youth.

Create, foster, facilitate and manage several community wide initiatives, including a year - long Education Re-Imagination Task Force

Through working with the early learning community, Every Child Belongs City Wide Training fosters a deeper understanding of professionals» responsibilities to all stakeholders including children, families, colleagues, Early Childhood Education profession, community, and the public.

The future James House is considering several possible future growth points: an emergency care service (already several children, and even a whole family has been offered respite accommodation and care on a short - term basis); a foster - care level of service for children no longer needing the intensive programme; more access to the activities programme for those in the wider community who may benefit from it, bringing them into the ambit of James House and thus offering some early intervention service; more parent training and other information giving in the community, contributing to prevention.

Fostering Resilient Coping in Children Exposed to Violence: Cultural Considerations Graham - Bermann & Halabu (2004) In Protecting Children From Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention View Abstract Uses examples from two culturally competent groups for children to illustrate the need to understand the wide range of circumstances experienced by children, the role of the therapist, the appropriateness of interventions, and the importance of recognizing positive aspects of the child's culture.

Unfortunately, not all children or young people have family or kin who can care for them, so foster carers from the wider community are vitally important.

Through its professional development programs, the Collaboration fosters a community - wide commitment to high - quality early learning and care programs in Oak Park.

The model has been used effectively in a wide variety of venues and settings: parenting, classroom, special behaviour programs, alternate education settings, therapy, correctional settings, aboriginal communities, adoption, counseling, and the foster system.

I think we've opened up the conversation and contributed to a wider community awareness of fostering.»

Team Tennessee strives to promote the social and emotional development of children, birth - early elementary age, through a cross agency collaborative professional development system, including community based training, continuing education and higher education, that fosters and sustains the state - wide, high - fidelity use of the Pyramid Model integrated with other relevant Tennessee efforts.

The organization has also been awarded a $ 25,000 New Horizons Grant to fund the 100 Mile Peninsula Club, a new retiree - run initiative intended to connect new residents, foster social engagement and encourage volunteering area - wide and in the new communities they now call home.