Sentences with phrase «human need for community»

Some members spent their childhood and youth in poverty shut away in institutions and others isolated in places where their basic human need for community and belonging were not met.

Not exact matches

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

As Schilling points out, Einstein once noted: «My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced freedom from the need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

At one point in 2005, criticism from the community that Mozilla managers were being too secretive led Baker to hold a moratorium on all corporate - only meetings for several months; it only ended when managers needed to discuss a human resources question too personal to share with everyone.

We are living in a society where there is a need for human connection and a sense of community.

I want rather to emphasize that if we are going to work for the renewal of our polity and local communities, we need to grapple with the fact that real human community requires more unanimity of thought and practice than we have realized.

We need community — an absolute necessity for healthy human living and a connection to the christ within ourselves and within each other.

Many times they were blinded by their own sense of external righteousness to the human need in everyone for love, acceptance, forgiveness, and community.

The gospel insists that human beings are the greatest good, and that everyone's needs are best met when we live in community, caring for each other rather than looking out for Number One.

I work in the medical community and have great compassion and empathy for my fellow human beings and i never needed religion to teach that to me.

She gathered a group of like minded women around her and formed a religious community to defend the human rights and cater for the spiritual needs of slave and coloured girls.

Family and community meet the natural human need and desire for solidarity.

Our institutions counsel and educate for individuality and autonomy and control and independence in a world that needs community and mutuality and cooperation and interdependence and human responsibility and a new spirituality for contemplative co-creation.

To lessen psychological and family disorders and to increase human potentializing, an innovative strategy is needed to provide a variety of easily available networks of caring and mutual nurture for individuals and families within every community.

Much needed is research beyond that already completed which will develop guidelines for improving the church's many roles in community health — from meeting the existential crises of being human and belonging to social groups and facing anxiety and dread, to providing more efficiently the «learning atmosphere» for a religious style - of - life.

The Protestant emphasis on the need for a personal relationship with God, if not balanced by an emphasis on the need to belong to a community of others who are also rightly related to God, can lead to an excessively individualistic understanding of human society.

There is injustice and human need all around us; catastrophe for individuals, institutions and communities can happen here.

The welfare of the human community, of even the most powerless, is tied to the welfare of the biosphere on which we all depend for basic life needs.

Such models, I believe, are extant in local Indian communities; they just need to be recognized as worthwhile paradigms for collective human living.

It isn't about human rituals but about believing the Holy Messiah, Jesus Christ by name to the Christian community did bear the sufferings for our sins, so that we, by repentance (turning away from our sins) and following in the teachings of the Messiah to become the «new man in him» can be forgiven, and given the great mercy and grace that we all need, in order to be saved, and not destroyed with all that is evil.

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

Community or cooperation need to be seen for what they are, essential to our healthy existence; on the other hand, contrast of cultures and types, which bring freshness and variety, needs also to be seen for what it is, as the way in which human life is delivered from monotonous sameness and dull repetition of pattern.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER At its annual New York City Gala this month, the Washington - based Human Rights Campaign presented a program that focused just enough attention on the dangers created since Donald Trump became president to press the urgent need for the community to engage in productive resistance to the now one - year old administration.

At 9 a.m. Friday, the Center for New York City Affairs will host «Getting Proactive in the Preserving & Strengthening of Human Services in NY,» discussing «the economic and social impact of human services CBOs, and the need to preserve and strengthen their critical role in building foundational supports that contribute to the health and well - being of individuals, families, and communities.&rHuman Services in NY,» discussing «the economic and social impact of human services CBOs, and the need to preserve and strengthen their critical role in building foundational supports that contribute to the health and well - being of individuals, families, and communities.&rhuman services CBOs, and the need to preserve and strengthen their critical role in building foundational supports that contribute to the health and well - being of individuals, families, and communities.»

Founded in 1989, Comunilife's mission is to improve the quality of life and create a healthier tomorrow, for New Yorkers with special needs in the Hispanic and broader communities, by providing culturally competent health and human services and a continuum of affordable and supportive housing».

is AFFIRMING that a more democratic, equitable and collaborative system is possible where local schools supported by the entire community provide excellent education and the wrap around services needed to meet each child's right to reach his / her full human potential and their community's right for social and economic development,

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

PHENOMIN's involvement in the IMPC will fulfill a key item of the the National Alliance for life sciences and health (AVIESAN) strategic plan that consists in applying mouse genetics to analyze the mechanisms of disease and to use this knowledge for advancing fundamental research and human health (AVIESAN report on the use and needs of mouse models in the French scientific community, 2010).

Investigators recognize the need for community participants to feel sustained human contact as a part of the science, and to understand that local needs and conditions drive the project.

Help is our human need to create community; ask for help!

The common life initially rests on the constitutive need for the human beings to be combined to form a community of similar which is also a community of destiny, out of which, as Aristotle wrote it,

The common life initially rests on the constitutive need for the human beings to be combined to form a community of similar which is also a community of destiny, out of which, as Aristotle wrote it, no man could exist humanly, nor simply to survive.

Though communities (rural and urban) will be the fulcrum of the alternative futures, the state will need to retain, or rather strengthen, its welfare role for the weak (human and non-human).

If whites (or anyone, for that matter) in these settings act in ways that discriminate, these practices need to be discussed, so that multiracial organizations can be places where people build truly human communities that practice equity and justice.

We should have started first with those extreme concentrations of poverty, breaking them up into community schools that served their entire needs as human beings, allowing for respectful learning cultures.

Gwen Benson, associate dean of School, Community, and International Partnerships at the College of Education and Human Development at Georgia State University — a recipient of a 2014 TQP grant — believes that this strong partnership is critical in preparing teachers for the challenges they will face when they have graduated and found jobs in high - need schools.

San Diego Humane Society offers San Diegans a wide range of programs and services that strengthen the human - animal bond, prevent cruelty / neglect, provide medical care, educate the community on the humane treatment of animals and provide safety net services for all pet families needing assistance with keeping their pets.

With the powerful human - animal bond at the heart of our work, our organization, envisioned by Ms. Lewis, continues to evolve and expand to serve the needs of the community and to plan for the future.

This is not only good for the cats, but also balances the needs and concerns of the human communities in which many feral cats live.

The non-profit met a great community need, and now is partnered with organizations like Association for Human - Animal Bond Studies, Hooves and Paws and the San Diego Humane Society to reach those who may need it in the San Diego area.

While we tend to focus on what we — as humans — need to do in emergencies, whether they be a hurricane, fire, or other disasters, it is also good to have a plan for your community cats, if you take care of them.

PAF has long seen a need, and now sees increased opportunity, to assist our community in addressing the need for engaging and inspiring human education in our schools.

In addition to our programs for children, All For Animals also sponsors therapy dog training classes, which teach dogs and their human companions the skills they will need in order to volunteer together in the community and bring joy and smiles to those in nefor children, All For Animals also sponsors therapy dog training classes, which teach dogs and their human companions the skills they will need in order to volunteer together in the community and bring joy and smiles to those in neFor Animals also sponsors therapy dog training classes, which teach dogs and their human companions the skills they will need in order to volunteer together in the community and bring joy and smiles to those in need.

This book will bring much needed positive change to community cats and the humans who care for them.

Because the Alaskan Malamute was developed in the Alaskan wilderness, and all members of the human group were part of the dominant pack, and all of their belongings were shared between them and unexpected strangers were welcomed with hospitality - there was no need for the Mals in the community, to guard the humans» belongings against human intruders.

After seeing all that DPS does for its community, McCurry hopes people will step forward and fill those needs, just as DPS does for so many — humans and dogs.

Some canine contestants have overcome physical adversity and abuse, some have served their community for years, while others give their human partners the help and confidence needed to survive their own hardships.

Through a proactive engagement - based approach that redefines animals «in need,» values the human - animal bond and engages community members and shelter staff and volunteers in solving for animals» needs together.

Cats In Need of Human Care is an organization of volunteers who co-operate with one another and the community to find good, loving homes for homeless pets, promote spay / neuter and responsible ownership

What we learned is that we both envisioned a common future for our community, and knew how we should meet those needs; our missions, which had come to focus upon the human - animal bond, were almost identical.