Sentences with phrase «include building resilience»

U.S. climate policy discussions that don't include building resilience to extreme weather are set for failure.

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In support of the President's Climate Action Plan, HabitatSeven has partnered with NOAA to build a suite of data and mapping tools to be included in the Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT).

Some of the key actions identified to ensure an appropriate response this year and to build Somalia's resilience to extreme shocks include:

Grow Ahead invites women from Africa, Asia or Latin America over 18 years of age to apply for scholarships of up to US$ 2,500 for workshops or trainings in their regions focused on agroecology or regenerative organic agriculture, including (but not limited to) agroforestry, biochar, compost, holistic management, conservation tillage, pasture cropping, silvopasture, permaculture, or other practices that build climate resilience.

From a global perspective, the PLP report includes the Company's 2025 goals aimed at working to improve the health and well - being of all people, building resilience in communities around the world and positively impacting the environment.

He has written extensively promoting teen health and resilience, including the books Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings and Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love with Expectations and Protection wresilience, including the books Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings and Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love with Expectations and Protection wResilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings and Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love with Expectations and Protection with Trust.

Trauma - Informed Expressive Arts and Play Therapy integrates neurodevelopmental knowledge and the sensory qualities of the arts in trauma including the following 1) how the mind and body respond to traumatic events; 2) recognition that symptoms are adaptive coping strategies rather than pathology; 3) emphasis on cultural sensitivity and empowerment; and 4) helping to move individuals from being not only survivors, but ultimately to becoming «thrivers» through skill building, support networks, and resilience enhancement.

The study, supported by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple urban systems, including land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.

CFP funding contributes to the initiation of an approximately 18 - month investigation focused on how to communicate with policymakers about building resilience, including the concept of «buffering» experiences and relationships, epigenetics as a process underlying resilience, the cultural and biological components of resilience, and interventions related to both building resilience and addressing the apparent lack of resilience in young children.

We need national policy that makes it easier for schools, and others who work directly with young people, to focus on building these supportive networks, tapping into existing resource, and helping young people develop the vital employability skills they will need, including confidence, communication, resilience and motivation.

Reflecting the need to factor existing climate change into national planning, 100 of the INDCs include measures to reduce vulnerability and build resilience.

In outlining helpful approaches to building children's resilience, the guide identified children that are either particularly well placed for structured intervention programs or in particular need of these programs, including:

In addition, in October 2016, the Department of Education issued new guidance on the Every Student Succeeds Act describing how funds from Title IV, Part A's Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants can help state and local educational agencies provide all students with access to a well - rounded education.42 According to this guidance, local educational agencies «may use funds for activities in social emotional learning, including interventions that build resilience, self - control, empathy, persistence, and other social and behavioral skills.»

In addition, our Promise curriculum includes grade - appropriate character education, helping students at every level build crucial non-cognitive skills such as resilience, grit, and curiosity.

Our Credit Safety Net campaign encourages the government to build up financial resilience in Britain, including alternatives to credit, and access to debt advice.

These include reducing inertia in social and economic systems; building on a growing public desire for governments to act on climate change; removing implicit and explicit subsidies; reducing the influence of vested interests that increase emissions and reduce resilience; enabling the shifts from ineffective governance and weak institutions to innovative leadership in government, the private sector and civil society; and engaging society in the transition to norms and practices that foster sustainability.

The progress seen at COP22 and over the past year on various fronts including transport, agriculture, buildings, energy and resilience, as well as among the business community, can provide an essential complement to national government efforts toward achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

At the end of the workshop, it is expected that the participants will become knowledgeable on proposal development and familiarized with topics of priority in Southeast Asia, which include disaster risk reduction and management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and building resilience to climate change impacts.

Macroeconomic policies in these countries will need to be calibrated to accommodate more frequent weather shocks, including by building policy space to respond to shocks; infrastructure will need to be upgraded to enhance economic resilience.

The report includes topics such as building resilience and reducing vulnerabilities, the regional trend towards climate change adaptation, a regional framework for disaster management; and regional initiatives in advancing disaster risk management and climate change adaptation in fisheries and aquaculture.

This analytical report makes the business case for private sector adaptation to climate change, including through building the resilience of vulnerable communities in developing countries.

It can be a useful tool to promote coherence and maintain the momentum of the UN's commitment to building the resilience, including by adressing climate change, of nations and communities.

The October 2011 report Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climate risks.

«I believe there is a need to increase resilience with better building codes, flood protection, and water management, and we need to prepare for contingencies, including planning evacuation routes and how to deal with power cuts.»

In order to give clear signals that society must shift to a low - carbon pathway, the agreement should include two long - term goals: a goal to phase out greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century and a goal to build communities» resilience to the impacts.

The list, as follows, includes early warning systems and resilience - building:

Because of that work and many follow - on studies conducted for state and city officials, New York has incorporated climate - change adaptation and resilience into its long - term planning initiatives, which include upgrading building codes and managing parks and wetlands to accommodate flooding and sea - level rise.

Core focus areas of Earthjustice's international efforts include combating climate change, protecting the international Arctic, building marine resilience to ocean acidification, and promoting citizen participation in environmental protection.

In support of the President's Climate Action Plan, HabitatSeven has partnered with NOAA to build a suite of data and mapping tools to be included in the Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT).

For landfalling storms, the damage from winds and flooding, as well as storm surges, are especially of concern, but often depend more on human factors, including whether people place themselves in harm's way, their vulnerability and their resilience through such things as building codes.

«By working with family farmers to build on their knowledge in the development of sustainable agricultural practices, we can improve resilience in the food system — including resilience to climate change, food price shocks, conflict, and natural disasters,» says Barbara Gemmill - Herren, Programme Officer at FAO.

For example, the resilience work will include climate adaptation - specific goals (e.g., providing reliable access to power during increasing heat waves, or storms), while also supporting carbon neutrality goals (implementing low or no carbon - emitting solutions for those reliable power sources), and it will equally importantly focus on building community capacity to deal with a constantly changing climate, including changing extremes.

Ann - Maree has pursued diverse professional interests including fostering of new lawyers; overcoming barriers to career progression in law; and contributing to programs to build resilience.

Our organization has also hosted numerous substantive workshops and panel discussions, including the following: securing employment after articles, negotiating in your career, formulating career plans, participating in performance reviews, building resilience and happiness, and maximizing mentor relationships.

Key responsibilities will include: Networking and building relationships with clients and candidates Developing key business relationships with new clients, generating client meetings and new job opportunities Candidate attraction, using for example - job boards and social media Lead generation and conversion Managing opportunities, placing candidates and fee negotiation Interviewing candidates and matching candidates to vacancies Using negotiation and objection handling skills to maximise revenue Providing professional and consultative advice to clients and candidates Skills Required Resilience, strong listening and application skills with the ability to learn quickly Career minded, hard working and driven Confident with the ability to build rapport Ability to nurture relationships Benefits Fast moving and performance - orientated business with excellent rewards Very competitive salary and benefits package Fantastic opportunities for career progression to Senior Consultant, Principle Consultant or Managing Consultant Industry - leading training Sunday Times Best 100 companies to work for «Investors in People (IIP)- Platinum» company Guidance and support from a Manager with over 20 years experience A great place to work Search is one of the UK's largest recruitment companies with 13 locations nationwide covering over 20 industry sectors.

How this activity could be built into an existing resilience and alcohol and other drugs education program or alternatively be included in planning for another learning area eg: English, The Arts etc..

This guide helps parents to reflect on their mental illness and symptoms (including the impact on their parenting and on the family) and offers practical tips on how to build child and family resilience.

How best to structure these is an open question; recent findings from Rites of Passage, an early intervention programme for Aboriginal young people which includes resilience - building camps and increasing access to mental health services, suggest that boys may be more difficult than girls to engage in social and emotional well - being programmes (Robinson R, Schuster L, Williamson A. Rites of Passage: evaluation if a pilot study if an early intervention program for Aboriginal young people.

Building resilience really comes through the development of social and emotional skills, which include coping skills.

The impacts on the child of both risk and protective factors, including any culturally - specific factors, should be taken into account when developing strategies for building resilience.

The cultural determinants of health originate from and promote a strength based perspective, acknowledging that stronger connections to culture and country build stronger individual and collective identities, a sense of self - esteem, resilience, and improved outcomes across the other determinants of health including education, economic stability and community safety.

The service projects, which include the delivery of at least 95 Be Strong Families Parent Cafes across the city in July and August, seek to reduce violence in communities by building the Strengthening Families ™ Protective Factors (Social Connections, Parental Resilience, Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development, Concrete Support in Times of Need, and Social and Emotional Competence of Children) in families» homes and communities and promoting vitality across Chicago - land.

These include improving access and equality, integrating services, and building resilience.

The LST program is guided by a comprehensive theoretical framework that addresses multiple risk and protective factors, provides developmentally appropriate information relevant to the target age group and the important life transitions they face, includes comprehensive personal and social skills training to build resilience and help students navigate developmental tasks, and uses interactive teaching methods (e.g., facilitated discussion, structured small group activities, role - playing scenarios) to stimulate participation and promote the acquisition of skills.

These relationship programs include: PICK (How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk — for singles of all ages), Couple LINKS (for committed couples), and Our Home Runs (for entire families and designed to facilitate family bonding); Home Run Dads; Home Run Parents; Ultimate Spiritual Resilience & Relationships (R&R — for individuals and couples to build core spiritual values and the skills to integrate those values into major domains of life); and Relationship Counseling with the RAM (a professional course that provides a model for assessing and counseling relationship concerns).

You can help develop your child's resilience by helping them build and strengthen their relationships with other children, and with significant adults in their lives — including your parent - child relationship.

Building resilience in families and children in the face of stress is extremely important, and this is why it's vital we include stress management strategies into not just pregnancy care, but also the early years of parenting and child development.

Before entering private practice, Mike was Director of Training at CFN where he traveled the country delivering training on topics including conflict resolution, team building, & resilience.

Our curriculum includes the latest research on brain development, the practice of nonviolent communication, emotional skill building and how to build resilience in young people.

It covers the basics about trauma - informed practice and the seven concepts involved in trauma - informed expressive arts therapy including neurodevelopment, safety, self - regulation, somatic approaches, cultural sensitivity and resilience - building.