Sentences with phrase «health champions»

Schools should stop addressing students as «girls» or boys because it can reinforce gender stereotypes, a former government mental health champion has said.

I met so many of these supporters this year while traveling the country volunteering to help elect reproductive health champions.

Women's health champions beat it back, but it was just one of many such attacks.

Women's health champions pushed back on proposed cuts to women's health programs, offering amendments to restore funding for these critical programs and strike harmful policy riders from the bill.

We're lobbying public officials and working to elect reproductive health champions.

Recently axed mental health champion for schools, Natasha Devon, denounced testing «in developmental stages» for «making children feel judged, inadequate and anxious».

Pledge to Resist, Persist, and Vote for reproductive health champions in 2018.

Joanna Instone, Head of External Affairs and Policy Officer, British Dietetic Association talks to us about their new initiative to launch a network of public health champions to introduce public health into the dietetic role.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) honored Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D - NY) for his longtime work as a women's health champion at a reception on Capitol Hill this evening.

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The charity's Mental Health Champions programmes for School Leaders and Class Teachers combine expert consultation, advice and training to help build understanding, skills and knowledge of mental health in schools.

Instead of welcoming reproductive health champion Hillary Clinton as our first female president, we saw Donald Trump take the White House.

Theories about family and approaches to mental health championed by AFTA are taught in every major institution of higher learning.

We are grateful for the hard work of women's health champions on Beacon Hill and look forward to continue working with them to restore funding for the family planning program to its pre-recession level.

«He is a pro-choice and pro-women's health champion who will be a strong voice for Minnesota, especially working to protect and promote women's health and prevent unintended pregnancy.»

However, as the late Aboriginal health champion, Dr Puggy Hunter, described:

Several reproductive health champions stood up to argue against HB 194, demanding that politicians stop interfering with Missourians» personal, private medical decisions.

That's why it's more important than ever that we elect reproductive health champions in 2018.

The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed the first ever mental health champion for schools to help raise awareness of young people's mental health.

«Withdrawing Kathleen Hartnett White's nomination is the right thing to do, and I believe it is past time for this administration to nominate a thoughtful environmental and public health champion to lead this critical office in the federal government,» Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said after hearing reports of White's plan to withdraw.

Women's health champions beat back this effort.

Thank you for signing our pledge to support women's health champions at the ballot box next November.

Natasha Devon, the government's mental health champion for UK schools, has been axed by the Department for Education (DfE).

We also have an incredible opportunity to elect more reproductive health champions to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2017.

Natasha is an inspiration to many young people and I'm delighted to have her on board as our first mental health champion.

The DfE has denied that the move was politically motived or linked to her comments about testing, but instead part of a move to introduce a cross government mental health champion.

Since that time, the independent NHS task force report has been published which recommended that a cross-government mental health champion be created - for this reason we have had to consider the Department's own role.

These figures highlight the good work and creative initiatives that employers are offering to promote and support positive mental health, from hosting wellness webinars and appointing mental health champions, to providing free meditation sessions for staff.

Together with our women's health champions in the Legislature, you defeated bills that would have tangibly harmed communities.

Despite objections from women's health champions, the Committee passed the Fiscal Year 2018 Labor - Health and Human Services appropriations bill, which would cut women off from Planned Parenthood's preventive services, end health care access for the 4 million people who rely on the nation's family planning program, and eliminate the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.

Up and down the ballot, women's health champions are facing opponents who threaten to take us backward on access to birth control coverage; backward on access to safe, legal abortion; and backward on access to care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

The need to elect women's health champion has never been clearer.

Thank you Governor Phil Murphy and All Women's Health Champions!

The proliferation of extreme, dangerous anti-abortion laws in the states prove yet again why it's so important to put a women's health champion in the White House.

Electing reproductive health champions has always been something that was extremely important to me.

These women have been reproductive health champions, and their records speak for themselves.