Sentences with phrase «helping kids in my neighborhood»

He's against charter schools for political reasons, but his political agenda isn't helping kids in my neighborhood learn how to read or improve their math skills.

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Start locally - helping out an elderly neighbor with some chores, volunteering at a rescue shelter, helping out the neighborhood school, being involved in a kids program at the local park, helping out at a local hospital, visiting a juvenile detention center on a regular basis.

I'd read Yvonne Thornton's Ditchdigger's Daughters, and if that dad in a crime - ridden neighborhood could produce highly educated children by forcing them to practice music, then surely music lessons could help my suburban kids stay out of trouble.

Raider defensive end Anthony Smith has found his calling — helping kids from poor neighborhoods in L.A.

Recipients participate in a variety of community engagement activities including operating free neighborhood clinics, helping patients pay for their medications, delivering healthy literacy education and mentorship to youth, handing out free bike helmets to kids, conducting medical and psychological examinations to those seeking asylum in the United States, giving out safe sleep sacs for newborn infants, and more!

September 26, 2016 Comer Children's wins $ 2M federal grant to help kids affected by violence The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital will provide screening and mental health care for hundreds of children and families that have been affected by violence in many of Chicago's South and West side neighborhoods.

Kale salad and kale chips are our favorite; in fact we have the neighborhoods kids coming in for a snack when they smell it baking For the salad, massaging the kale helps make the kale soft, and gives a different smooth taste for your palate.

Poor kid, and poor everyone else — Griffin mildly chides Phoenix for lashing out at a woman scolding a child, telling her that taking it out on others isn't going to help, and then he vandalizes every car in the neighborhood.

At People Serving People, a homeless shelter in Minneapolis, local design firms and educators work together to show kids how design thinking can help them make a difference in their neighborhoods.

In several cities, we're working together to fix, not close, struggling schools and to wrap services around those schools — because we know this helps kids and ensures that neighborhoods are not hollowed out.

As the kids and families in my neighborhood begin the process of recovering from the trauma of recent events, Patty and teachers like her in Back of the Yards will be key resources to help them develop resilience.

When I started working in LAUSD, right after my college graduation, I was excited to help the next generation of kids from my neighborhood.

Well, move over Karden the sludge puppet, there's a new kid in town: Frank N. Foode, «your friendly neighborhood genetically modified organism,» who «help [s] make the science of biotechnology fun and approachable.»

Despite the fact that there's often so many things stacked against kids growing up in the inner - city, there's one young eco-hero that's defying the odds and making an incredible difference while helping to shed a bit of light on how successful students can be at affecting change in their own neighborhoods.

Outreach workers seek out at - risk kids and help them develop connections with other children, positive adult role models in their neighborhoods, and with community stakeholders.

Kids, even those in chains, feel better when we help create a neighborhood of parents a «there» to hold and protect them.

She kept in mind the fact that I have kids and not only helped me look for a house but assisted me with examine the neighborhood and schools.

It's also a way to help people stay put, keep their kids in the same schools and stabilize neighborhoods, according to Bartling.