Sentences with phrase «help city children»

Included: Teachers, students, and administrators talk about effective ways to help city children achieve success.

Not exact matches

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

At 14, he founded a nonprofit aimed at helping inner - city children gain better educational opportunities.

Her backstory of growing up in an African - American family of 10 children in inner - city Detroit is remarkably aligned with the foundation's mission of helping kids and families succeed in some of the poorest corners of the U.S. Among other things, under Tabron's leadership at Kellogg, the foundation has doubled down on its prescient — and bold — racial equity work.

Women in Need (Win) has provided safe housing, critical services, and groundbreaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives in New York City for more than 33 years.

(Win) has provided safe housing, critical services, and groundbreaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives in New York City for more than 33 years.

I actually work with a man who heads up a charity that helps young inner city children get free screenings for heart disorders and he is an atheist.

In the three cities he played in during his NFL career, Long will donate to charities that help underserved children receive education opportunities.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

My «fleshy desires» have me giving to various charities (not the church) to help educate, feed, and cloth children the world over, spending years in the field helping those less fortunate, volunteering my time teaching inner city school children, and doing my best to live in love not in fear.

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

King's use of children actually helped create the atmosphere that made possible a tangible agreement with city officials.

These donations have helped more than 75 different causes including military, city restoration, child abuse, food for the hungry, medical care for the sick or injured, community projects, animal rehabilitation and many more.

Paul will discuss Helping Children Succeed in a keynote speech at the first Trauma in Our Community conference, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's School of Continuing Education and held at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center.

Paul will discuss Helping Children Succeed in a keynote speech at Commonwealth Education's 2017 International Education Forum, held in the South China Bank Building in Taipei City.

«The Park District's summer day camps and programs are an essential resource that help children across the city continue to learn and grow outside of the classroom,» said Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a news release.

Leapfrog Early Learning Academy in Union City, Georgia, is a child care establishment that utilizes the Montessori philosophy and materials in their classroom that self - correct and help the students in developing their five senses.

Expect to take your child to the city library to find books, or to spend more time at home helping your child find resources on the internet.

If stress stems from the anxiety of the unknown — such as moving to a new city or starting at a new school — help your child understand what's going to happen.

- Tampa Bay Parenting»... a valuable guidebook filled with humor and advice that all parents should read regardless of how old their kids are...» - Twin Cities Frugal Mom «Parents of teens needing a supportive, insightful guide to help them through the pitfalls of their child's toughest years should take a look at A Survival Guide» - The Sun Daily «This is truly a fantastic book for mothers with children at any age.»

Of the 395 teenage fathers participating in the eight cities, 82 percent have daily contact with their children and 74 percent help support their child.

Many Canadian cities have a chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), an organization that has helped many parents whose children have come out to them.

Pregnant with her first child, Julie Speier prepared to deliver with the help of a midwife at a New York City birthing center.

October 22, 2014 --(Altadena, CA) Piece by Piece instructor and mosaic artist Leigh Adams and her colleague Bea Jones, a retired psychiatric social worker, worked with our children through a special grant from the Marion Brucker Legacy Trust via Piece by Piece, which helped bring mosaic artistry to inner - city youth.

Whether you're a birth mother looking to place your child for adoption or a family seeking an adoption agency in Oklahoma City, we can help you develop an adoption plan and complete all the steps you'll need.

The mayor wants to extend his pre-K program — promising free full - day child care for all city 3 - year - olds by 2021, but he'll need help from the state and federal governments to pay for it.

Coalition members, including the UFT, the Partnership for New York City, Trinity Wall Street and the Children's Aid Society, helped shape this position paper in an effort to elucidate what the community schools model is all about.

Geoffrey Canada has devoted his life to help change the quality of life of inner city children across the United States.

He says the change would help cut down on dangerous driving in his city that is putting residents - especially children - in harm's way.

Wonderschool, a San Francisco - based venture that helps pre-K teachers and child - care providers run preschools out of their homes, plans to open 150 «boutique» programs in the New York City area.

«But this is not helping homeless children and adults in New York City.

QUEENS, NY — Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Stop & Shop, with help from students of I.S. 93Q, today unloaded 1,000 Easter hams off an 18 - wheeler in front of Borough Hall, donated in time for preparations for the upcoming holiday to five local Queens organizations: Catholic Charities Queens North Community Center of Astoria, Chinese - American Planning Council's Nan Shan Senior Center of Flushing, Hour Children of Long Island City, Korean Community Services Senior Centers of Corona and Flushing, and Queensbridge / Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Senior Center of Long Island City.

During a tour of P.S. 57 in Clifton, one of seven schools in the city that launched an initiative to teach children with print - based disabilities, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said the classes will help students deal with their condition.

The Borough President noted that her two children help keep her grounded when it comes to shaping our City's polices and planning for the Borough's future.

«I look forward to working closely with [Carranza] to help all of the inner cities» children and their families,» she said.

«Buffalo is on its way to being fully restored as a City of Choice,» Dr. Cash said, «and these children that we help now will fuel the human capital pipeline and economic growth for Buffalo well into the future.»

Johnson, who grew up in a union household and credited Mulgrew with helping him become elected speaker, called the UFT «a strong, progressive, well - organized union that serves children every day to make this city better — in good times and in bad.»

On immigration, Bloomberg said the city will «help lead the charge» for the New York State Dream Act, legislation modeled after a federal bill that would allow children who were brought to the country illegally to apply for state - sponsored college loans, grants and scholarships.

«It is a sign that according to City Hall that communities of color are not deserving of respect and that more jail cells should come here instead of helping children understand stem cells,» said Blake in a statement.

The UFT put together this resource booklet to help parents navigate the New York City school system and be informed advocates for their child's education.

City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras last week announced a fund to help support Massey's husband and their four children, who range in age from four to nine.

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has helped three thousand city children experience countryside life.

And Carrión added that as part of First Lady Chirlane McCray's ThriveNYC mental health initiative, ACS started Trauma Smart to instruct teachers and parents across the EarlyLearn system on how to help their children through traumatic experiences and that New York City has the lowest detention and placement census.

Primary challenger Jose Cruz, a former Monroe County Legislator and city council member, says he wants to use his experience in Albany to allow municipalities to decide how best to educate their children, help small businesses grow and work with families who have loved ones with developmental disabilities.

Sources say Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus, former Republican New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are part of a small group who hope to get Trump's children to help in a sitdown with the billionaire businessman.

We have to do a lot better, and we have the ability to tax those in our city who have done very well and get that help to our children and to our families,» he said.

«We've lost so many good programs that I think helped life people up, lift children up and given them confidence and pride in their city,» he said.

Testifying on the proposed city budget on May 24, UFT President Michael Mulgrew had a simple request: Help us «make this a better city for our children.»

And the new supportive housing facility, Quinn said, will help move more families out of the city's shelter system — 70 percent of the people in the shelter system are families with children, something she says «most people don't realize.»

«Dennis Walcott has been working his entire life to help New York City's school children, and I am confident that experience will help him build on the successful reform efforts of the past nine years and improve our classrooms for the generations to come,» Bloomberg said in a statement praising Steiner's decision.