Sentences with phrase «from social interventions»

Grullón draws from social interventions and performative reenactments that assert the lived experiences of people removed from history.
He said apart from these social intervention programmes, the NPP administration also transformed the economy «by improving on our currency, the strength of our cedi, the banking system and the private sector making sure that the environment was good for businesses to flourish.»

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Thus, a new and healthy inequality will reappear and will give a new dynamism to the economies of developed countries sick of the slumpflation, sickness coming from the combined inheritance of policies inspired by Keynes and Beveridge, i.e. of the anti-cycle intervention of the State (aiming at cushioning) and of the social redistribution.
It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.
Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.
Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.
We offer a number of therapeutic services for children from one year of age through adolescence that include individualized speech and language therapy, parent training to facilitate language development in children who are late talkers or stuttering, and interventions to facilitate social communication and pragmatics.
Many parent training programs offered through social service agencies, educational programs and private counselors utilize aspects of behavioral family intervention to treat everything from severely disruptive behavior to mental health issues.
As it is likely that some types of social support are more important for postpartum depression compared to others, and that this may vary according to circumstance and culture, knowing more about these finer details can help to better inform health policy and guide interventions from health professionals.
Rowling's intervention, which was shared thousands of times on social media, followed criticism of Evans» stance from MPs.
Details of the State of the Nation Address went from outlining the benefits in the improvement in the health delivery to the social intervention projects and the provision of potable water among others.
«In terms of the distribution of the satellite boxes, government will make an intervention because as a social democratic government, we believe that the international agreement that is saying that we should migrate from analogue to the digital broadcasting must also be sensitive to the plight of the have - nots.
According to her, UNICEF is proud and privileged to have come to Osun state in a bid to study and tap from the wealth of experience of Mr Governor on the success of his social intervention programmes.
In April 2012, NICE announced that, following a topic referral from the Department of Health, people working in health, youth and criminal justice, education and social care sectors would be given NICE guidance on the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions for the prevention and early treatment of mental health problems of offenders.
«So, as our government is keen on the need to eradicate unemployment from the system, we are assuring that the current administration would not relent to ensure that every Nigerian is empowered to feed his or her self through our numerous social intervention programmes.
Osinbajo also said there was appreciation from other African leaders regarding the N500bn Social Intervention Programme of the present administration which focuses primarily on women, including the one million market women, traders and artisans who will get macro-credit loans.
Now, researchers from the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society have created an algorithm that sorts intervention program participants — who are voluntarily working on recovery — into smaller groups, or subgroups, in a way that maintains helpful social connections and breaks social connections that could be detrimental to recovery.
Drawing from education research on self - regulated learning and evidence from social psychology on effective approaches to interventions, Chen and colleagues developed a brief exercise for students aimed at guiding their thinking about how they use learning resources.
Opportunities to detect abuse occur throughout the episode of emergency care, from when paramedics and EMTs enter a patient's home to the clinical exam in the emergency department through intervention by social workers and / or law enforcement.
The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent educational performance.
One was the substance of the debate, which is important for Western science - based societies and has long - range implications for the books our children read, the science they are taught, the logic by which national decisions ranging from social policy to military intervention will be reached.
Overall, studies in the field indicate that children from low - income families tend to show the most gains from social emotional learning interventions, but results for other groups of students are more mixed, although a number of studies show positive effects.
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One hundred and seventy six eligible participants suffering from current MDE are being randomised into a dietary intervention group or a social support group.
Not only do singles benefit from the convenience of searching for love through social networks, but they're spared the emotional baggage associated with taking the plunge to join an OKCupid or Chemistry.com for a love - life intervention.
Of course, objective social and economic shocks and the intervention of socialist politics and political analysis play the decisive role, but an especially vivid sense of a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and drama.
July 5, 2016 • One of Hidden Brain's producers tries to quit smoking using three interventions drawn from social science research.
The children who attended the camp came mostly from homes that had required intervention from social service agencies.
A new social - emotional learning (SEL) intervention from the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Stephanie Jones and her research team offers a promising source of support for low - income families.
They subsequently outline the production process that leads to good evidence, explaining how the causal impact of educational and social interventions can be estimated from quantitative data.
Different institutions and initiatives are working on facilitating community participation from education to health to achieve a more complete educational intervention, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, where popular education was initiated and developed multiple socio - cultural experiences that ultimately work for a particular model of social change and transformation.
The lack of technologies and service delivery models that can overcome social, cultural and market barriers, preventing promising interventions from being brought to scale where most needed.
As a cohort, all PSP students take the yearlong seminar Risk and Resilience in Social Contexts from Birth to Young Adulthood: Strategies of Prevention and Intervention.
It has also meant making links between formal and informal sectors, urban and rural livelihoods, coastal and forest livelihoods, private and public interventions, social conflicts, economic thinking, agriculture, fisheries, environment, poverty alleviation, and subjective and objective wellbeing analyses in order to approach things from a humanitarian and educative and inclusive dimension that will be relevant to my immediate contexts which is Africa and the rest of the world.
With every course I took, I would try to find a way to relate my research back to picture books — from using class projects to write and illustrate various drafts, to researching how intervention programs use picture books to facilitate class discussions around social - emotional learning.
However, The independent evaluators from National Centre for Social Research found that the children who received the Switch - on intervention in this larger trial made no more progress than the children in the «business as usual» control group.
The social benefits of the ECO-C Intervention are harder to define in dollar terms, but they are the benefits associated with increased income and sociodemographic mobility for high - achieving students from low - income families.
This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).
As a data - driven district, Everett Public Schools is using SEL data from Panorama's Social - Emotional Learning Measures to plan instruction and interventions and to better understand and support all students.
Our interventions originate from innovative, fast - cycle experiments conducted by Dr. Todd Rogers and the Student Social Support R&D Lab at Harvard University.
Drawing from education research on self - regulated learning and evidence from social psychology on effective approaches to interventions, Chen and colleagues developed a brief exercise for students aimed at guiding their thinking about how they use learning resources.
Organizations apart from schools support them by providing sports, music and other «hobbies» for students, while extensive social and psychological services buttress sound student growth with annual check - ups and interventions.
In Social Emotional Learning Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, a team from RAND did an exhaustive search for U.S. K - 12 SEL interventions that have been studied, and graded the evidence according to the evidentiary guidelines contained in the EInterventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, a team from RAND did an exhaustive search for U.S. K - 12 SEL interventions that have been studied, and graded the evidence according to the evidentiary guidelines contained in the Einterventions that have been studied, and graded the evidence according to the evidentiary guidelines contained in the ESSA language.
In a follow up to their ground - breaking 2011 meta - analysis, CASEL and collaborating researchers have found that students from kindergarten to high school significantly benefit from school - based, universal social - emotional learning (SEL) interventions.
Intensified Mathematics I integrates a comprehensive course curriculum with interventions from social psychology to motivate and develop students» positive beliefs about their academic abilities.
Gonzalo Pons holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Psychology from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and is interested in behavioral sciences interventions and field experiments.
In addition, in October 2016, the Department of Education issued new guidance on the Every Student Succeeds Act describing how funds from Title IV, Part A's Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants can help state and local educational agencies provide all students with access to a well - rounded education.42 According to this guidance, local educational agencies «may use funds for activities in social emotional learning, including interventions that build resilience, self - control, empathy, persistence, and other social and behavioral skills.»
Students who completed social - emotional learning interventions fared better than their peers who didn't participate on a variety of indicators — including academic performance, social skills, and avoiding negative behaviors like drug use, finds the analysis, which examined follow - up data from dozens of published studies on specific interventions.
Abstract In this article, I consider social class and reading performance, outline a non-categorical approach to reading disability, describe the reading intervention program we have developed for older low - progress readers, and seek to demonstrate how students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds can, and do, make substantial progress when offered effective reading instruction based on the available scientific research evidence.
The solutions to school pushout supported by the Dignity in Schools campaign include shifting funding from school police to counselors and social workers; funding and using transformative and restorative justice, mediation and positive interventions; ensuring that states and districts focus on school climate under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and ending the pushout and arresting of students of color, LGBTQ youth, students who are homeless, and students with disabilities.
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