Sentences with phrase «immigrant families»

White children in immigrant families use center - based care in higher proportions than their representation in the population.

Understanding the intersection of immigration laws and laws governing federal funding for child care is critical to ensuring children from immigrant families receive equal access to quality child care.

«What's happening now, all over the country, is an increasing racial, linguistic, and religious diversity» as high numbers of immigrant families settle into small rural communities.

And they didn't feel that art museums were welcoming places for immigrant families of color.

Find resources in this section to help child welfare professionals understand immigration issues and work with immigrant families.

Many Chinese immigrant families served by these providers shared a number of social adversity factors that might impact on parent - child relationship and parenting outcomes [21][33].

Parent workshops at the event included topics on immigrant families, summer school and special education.

Early child care and the school readiness of children from Mexican immigrant families.

Unfortunately, there is no national will to welcome and integrate immigrant families into the American mainstream.

A new project with African immigrant families is tackling the special challenges they face in raising children.

Nevertheless, children in immigrant families contributed little to the change in child poverty rates in the 1990s and early 2000s.

«We were a typical immigrant family, but they never said no to my ambitions,» he said.

Thirty percent of participants had worked with Chinese immigrant families within 1 to 5 years and 30 % had more than 16 years.

Children living in immigrant families showed some concerning trends.

They don't just stand up for British people, they fight for immigrant families too.

Why does it matter if immigrant families are split up?

Students in the latter group are more likely than their peers to have lower family incomes and education levels, be members of ethnic minorities, or come from immigrant families.

They openly target the second generation of immigrant families and prisoners for recruitment into wealthy societies.

While previous studies have shown that children living in immigrant families are more likely to be uninsured, less is known about what percentage of uninsured children who are immigrants or have immigrant parents.

She also acknowledged that while it was common for immigrant families to travel abroad with their children during the school year, it was important for trips to be scheduled around the academic calendar.

The massive immigration enforcement regime has devastating effects on immigrant families and communities.

«This is why it is so important, especially now, to ensure funding for programs like the Vera Institute of Justice's New York Immigrant Family Unity Project so that immigrants facing deportation have a fair day in court.

The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project provides representation for those detained in proceedings at Varick Street Immigration Court.

Although every aspect of the proposed voluntary tests is in limbo while an independent body takes them under review, that decision highlights the ongoing educational challenge of assessing the literacy skills of the many students from immigrant families who are not yet proficient in English.

All messages (phone calls, emails, etc.) sent out by D.C. schools, not just essential information, should be sent out with translations to help immigrant families of young learners have a better understanding of their school community.

«The protocols we have put in place to protect immigrant families particularly are not only being reinstated, but they have been instated and will be reinstated over and over again,» she added.

The analyses found that the policy change would help support immigrant families by expanding job opportunities, while modestly lowering insurance premiums for all state drivers and improving public safety on roadways, with the fiscal costs of implementing the proposal more than offset by added revenues.

Both were born into Jewish immigrant families in New York.

Picture books about immigrant families are certainly nothing new, but renewed attention to immigrant experiences has ushered in a prodigious crop of new titles, and few are as evocative or heartening as Bao Phi and Thi Bui's A Different Pond.

She told the Committee that her career has come full - circle as she is now teaching kindergarten to English Language Learner students of immigrant families at Pioneer Preparatory School: A Challenge Foundation Academy in Phoenix.

«As many immigrant families did, my parents worked hard and struggled, but they also instilled in me the value of individual responsibility and living within a person's means,» Kim wrote in the Orange County Register earlier this year.

This issue is personal for me because as a college success counselor for KIPP Colorado Schools, a network of six public charter schools, I support students from immigrant families as they navigate through college on their journey toward a degree.

Nationally, Latino children from immigrant families face obstacles on every measure included in this index with the exception that they were more likely to live in two - parent households.

Ricky's parents are like those heading many immigrant families in that, despite their own challenges, they are fiercely driven to help their children rise above their own circumstances.

Spa Night (Director & Screenwriter: Andrew Ahn)-- A young Korean - American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.

Born to a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn on October 27, 1908, Krasner decided early on to pursue a career in the arts.

The year is 1845 and Stephen Meek is a for - hire guide leading a handful of immigrant families across the Oregon Trail in search of the American dream.

The company's market area is populated largely by immigrant families from Korea, China, Japan, the Middle East, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and other countries.

Then a colleague on the Canadian civil society delegation pointed out that it doesn't much serve climate justice, only shifts the locus of climate injustice, if developed countries accept financial responsibility for loss and damage — then see their historic wrongs paid for by a farmer in rural Britain or a first - or second - generation immigrant family in Calgary who pay their taxes, rather than a multinational fossil that doesn't.

Grounded in Parlá's personal first - generation Cuban American immigrant family story and an ever - evolving practice inspired by «elsewhere communities» and their contributions to America, Roots considers the relationship between local and family history and one's past, present and future.

The researchers found that although more children in immigrant families lived at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, which was $ 23,050 for a family of four in 2012, compared to children in U.S. - native families (80 versus 47 percent), they reported high exposure to ACEs at a rate of only 16 percent.

The idea is to provide a way to help poor immigrant families afford college.

Against that backdrop, Mark - Viverito hopes to establish «Immigrant Family Resource Centers» in each borough to offer support to people facing federal proceedings and their relatives.

A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000 Hispanic children from immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.

Ahn, perhaps drawing on personal experience, has a good eye for the complex dynamics of a working - class immigrant family trying to get by, with especially the wistful conversations between David and his Mom insightful and touching.

The projects don't have to be games: Some students are using Storyboard That to create graphic novels, while others are interviewing immigrant family members and publishing the interviews on StoryCorps, a podcasting site for oral histories.

By Chinese Information and Service Center The Chinese Information and Service Center Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Lab serves Asian immigrant families in the low - to - moderate income bracket.

As part of the Young Children in Black Immigrant Families initiative, Chapin Hall set out to examine the experiences, parenting practices, and characteristics o...