Sentences with phrase «in ethnic minority child»

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Together these leaders — long identified with the struggle for racial and economic justice — demand a test of vouchers with one basic criterion in mind: «Do public scholarships help or hurt our poorest children and the children of ethnic minorities?

He has observed that the marginalization of women, racial / ethnic / minorities, Dalits, the poor, children, elderly and the sick, in short the majority of the people the world over, has escalated with the spread of the forces of globalization.

In an attempt to provide such a wider perspective, the sermon brought in reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animalIn an attempt to provide such a wider perspective, the sermon brought in reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animalin reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animals.

While low - income, ethnic - minority families displayed less sensitivity overall to their children, positive father involvement and close mother - father relationships were especially beneficial in the case of maternal risk.

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populationsChildren's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populationschildren with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

[17] This disparity often results in a lower cost to adopt children from ethnic minorities - usually through special adoption grants rather than fee discrimination.

Morgan has been involved in the field of women's rights (having heavily promoted the introduction of all - women shortlists for political parties), as well as the welfare of children, black and minority ethnic and disabled people.

«The Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant helps support the learning needs of some of the most vulnerable children in our schools yet the per - pupil value of the grants has been frozen in cash terms.

«As a result children from ethnic minority backgrounds languish in care for longer than other kids and are denied the opportunities they deserve.

The United Nations has launched an investigation into whether welfare cuts have disproportionally hit marginalised groups in Britain such as single parents, ethnic minorities and children.

«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

As a child of Jamaican origin growing up in the British city of Nottingham, Mark Richards experienced firsthand the disadvantages that can accrue to ethnic - minority students.

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

As has been found in gifted education, we find that white children are more likely to receive special education services than similarly achieving racial or ethnic minority children.

The services are being provided to help children who are economically disadvantaged to better succeed in school, and a disproportionate number of these children are racial or ethnic minorities.

White children are much more likely than otherwise similar racial and ethnic minority children to receive special education services in the U.S. Ensuring equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) means making sure all children with disabilities are able to access the services to which they have a civil right.

The right way to ensure equity in IDEA is to make sure that children with disabilities who are racial or ethnic minorities are able to access these services just as much as those who are white.

In addition to the Trump administration's direct policy actions, Trump's bigoted and offensive rhetoric has assaulted our racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, implying that millions of American families and children are less than full members of our society.

At the same time, I do not want to diminish the importance of ethnic and racial cultural competency in particular, given that our teaching force is more than 80 percent white, while over half of children born today are racial minorities.

Effects of Full - Day Kindergarten on the Long - Term Health Prospects of Children in Low - Income and Racial / Ethnic - Minority Populations.

The best way to do this, in my view, is to support the educational opportunities of Hispanic, African - American, Asian, Muslim, of racial and ethnic minority children and youth and low income students and to systematically look for ways to help these our children and youth develop agency, and understanding of the political process and of the many opportunities to make democracy work in the acts of ordinary citizens, to discover and master the codes of political participation and power, to develop political efficacy.

This initiative in the Seattle Public Schools focused on results for children of families living in poverty, and non-native English speaking and ethnic minority families.

Clearly, children in poverty, racial and ethnic minorities, and girls in general, have an increased risk of obesity, which might negatively affect their academic achievement.

The No Child law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, requires testing in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and reporting of scores for groups of students including racial and ethnic minorities.

According to federally funded research, students who are living in poverty, are learning English as a second language, and are from racial and ethnic minority groups are 250 percent less likely to be identified for, and served in gifted programs, even when they perform at a comparable level to children in the program.

Over half of America's school children are now poor; more of our children are members of ethnic and racial minority groups, there is deepening concern about the future of children of color; and inequities in our society are more apparent than ever.

There are also concerns that charter advantages are rooted in new patterns of racial / ethnic segregation because white and minority families may choose schools with more children of the same race or ethnicity.

Barriers and engagement in education by ethnic minority parents of children attending Head Start.

We Need Diverse Books Short Story Contest is open to emerging diverse writers from all diverse backgrounds (including, but not limited to, LGBTQIA, people of colour, gender diversity, people with disabilities, and ethnic, cultural and religious minorities) who have not been published in a traditional print fiction book format, including self - published, independents, small and medium publishing houses, in all genres whether for the children's or adult market.

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The victim advocacy movement may yet regrow a bona fide humane movement rooted in representing «the voice of the voiceless,» as poet Etta Wheeler Wilcox put it in 1910, at a time when humane societies were the standard bearers for abused and exploited children as well as animals, and stood in opposition to slavers and the Ku Klux Klan, not in defense of the dogs the slavers and the KKK bred and used to intimidate racial and ethnic minorities, between staging fundraising dogfights.

The Edinburgh Mela Festival first begun in 1995 by the ethnic minority communities in the town and has evolved into a large annual affair filled with programmes of music, dance, theater, sports, arts and crafts, and activities for children.

When poor children are more likely to get sick and die than children in wealthier neighborhoods just across town; when rural families are more likely to go without clean water; when ethnic and religious minorities, or people with disabilities, or people of different sexual orientations are discriminated against or can't access education and opportunity — that holds all of us back.

In an open letter to the Lord Chancellor, Ken Clarke, published in last week's NLJ, Storer said: «Th e proposals, which are estimated to have a cumulative impact of # 395m — # 440m on a budget of # 2.1 bn, will have a disproportionate impact on vulnerable women, children, black and minority ethnic clients, and those living with disability and mental health problemIn an open letter to the Lord Chancellor, Ken Clarke, published in last week's NLJ, Storer said: «Th e proposals, which are estimated to have a cumulative impact of # 395m — # 440m on a budget of # 2.1 bn, will have a disproportionate impact on vulnerable women, children, black and minority ethnic clients, and those living with disability and mental health problemin last week's NLJ, Storer said: «Th e proposals, which are estimated to have a cumulative impact of # 395m — # 440m on a budget of # 2.1 bn, will have a disproportionate impact on vulnerable women, children, black and minority ethnic clients, and those living with disability and mental health problems.

Article 30: In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or persons of indigenous origin exist, a child belonging to such a minority or who is indigenous shall not be denied the right, in community with other members of his or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practise his or her own religion, or to use his or her own languagIn those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or persons of indigenous origin exist, a child belonging to such a minority or who is indigenous shall not be denied the right, in community with other members of his or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practise his or her own religion, or to use his or her own languagin which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or persons of indigenous origin exist, a child belonging to such a minority or who is indigenous shall not be denied the right, in community with other members of his or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practise his or her own religion, or to use his or her own languagin community with other members of his or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practise his or her own religion, or to use his or her own language.

Hence, many studies have also shown that Asian ethnic minority families who practice something similar to authoritarian parenting (a parenting style which scored poorly to mediocre in the studies of white middle class families) apparently result in children who excel both academically and socially.

Social risk factors such as growing up in poverty, racial / ethnic minority status, and maternal depression have been associated with poorer health outcomes for children.

Our data reconfirm that vigorous activity among ethnic minority children is lower than in non-Hispanic white children.17, 18 Such information must be considered when developing physical education curricula and community - based intervention strategies aimed at increasing physical activity among different target populations.

«The impact of poverty and low socioeconomic status on the socioemotional functioning of African - American children and adolescents: mediating effects,» in Social and Emotional Adjustment and Family Relations in Ethnic Minority Families, eds R. D. Taylor and M. Wang (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum), 7 — 34.

We entered the number of patients and control group members, mean age, percentage of girls and of members of ethnic minorities, the country of data collection, year of publication, type of illness, duration of illness, the sampling procedure (1 = probability samples, 0 = convenience samples), the use of a control group (0 = yes, 1 = comparison with test norms), equivalence of patients and control group (1 = yes, 2 = not tested, 3 = no), the rater of depressive symptoms (1 = child, 2 = parent, 3 = teacher, 4 = clinician), the measurement of the variables, and the standardized size of between - group differences in depressive symptoms.

The preservation and protection of Indigenous culture is addressed in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights50 (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.51 Both agreements have similar wording, providing that people belonging to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities have the right, in community with their group, to enjoy their own culture and to use their own language.52 The Human Rights Committee, in explaining the importance of these rights, noted:

Building Cultural Competence: A Systematic Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Culturally Sensitive Interventions With Ethnic Minority Youth Jackson Children and Youth Services Review, 31 (11), 2009 View Abstract Analyzes the methodology of recent culturally sensitive interventions with ethnic minority youth in order to evaluate each intervention's ability to adhere to existing standards of evidence - based praEthnic Minority Youth Jackson Children and Youth Services Review, 31 (11), 2009 View Abstract Analyzes the methodology of recent culturally sensitive interventions with ethnic minority youth in order to evaluate each intervention's ability to adhere to existing standards of evidence - based pMinority Youth Jackson Children and Youth Services Review, 31 (11), 2009 View Abstract Analyzes the methodology of recent culturally sensitive interventions with ethnic minority youth in order to evaluate each intervention's ability to adhere to existing standards of evidence - based praethnic minority youth in order to evaluate each intervention's ability to adhere to existing standards of evidence - based pminority youth in order to evaluate each intervention's ability to adhere to existing standards of evidence - based practice.

Chand Child and Family Social Work, 10 (2), 2005 View Abstract Considers research on family support services for ethnic minority families, including an overview of what is known about family support services for particular minority ethnic groups and the qualities sought in social workers by ethnic minority parents.

The NSPCC's services concentrate on seven important issues and groups of children most at risk: those who experience neglect, physical abuse in high - risk families (those families with violent adults, alcohol and drug abuse and mental health issues, those who experience sexual abuse, children under the age of one, disabled children, children from certain minority ethnic communities and looked after children.

Recent analyses suggest that households with a «mixed» child are more likely to have higher incomes, a higher level of education and are generally less likely to live in lone parent households compared to households with non-mixed children from ethnic minorities.

Predictors of Treatment Engagement in Ethnically Diverse, Urban Children Receiving Treatment for Trauma Exposure Fraynt, Ross, Baker, Rystad, Lee, & Briggs (2014) Journal of Traumatic Stress View Abstract Presents a study that examined whether racial / ethnic disparities exist in treatment duration and completion in minority children seeking treatment for trauma exposure from a child abuse prevention and treatment agency in southern CalChildren Receiving Treatment for Trauma Exposure Fraynt, Ross, Baker, Rystad, Lee, & Briggs (2014) Journal of Traumatic Stress View Abstract Presents a study that examined whether racial / ethnic disparities exist in treatment duration and completion in minority children seeking treatment for trauma exposure from a child abuse prevention and treatment agency in southern Calchildren seeking treatment for trauma exposure from a child abuse prevention and treatment agency in southern California.

There is growing evidence of deficiencies in the quality of health care for children, including low rates of preventive services, 1 persistent disparities in health status, 2 and lack of a usual source of care among ethnic and racial minorities and children in low - income families.3

Nutritional Practices among Ethnic Minorities and Child Malnutrition in Mountainous Areas of Central Vietnam