Sentences with phrase «including homelessness»

Mom and her five children, ranging from 14 to 4 years old, have been through a lot over the years, including homelessness, severe abuse and trauma, but mom's courage and tenacity has got this family back on their feet and into a home of their very own.

The difference is that CSWs tend to take on clients who are dealing with day - to - day survival challenges, including homelessness, joblessness, hunger, substance abuse, and other community - wide problems.

Family violence can affect physical and mental health, and lead to social and community issues, including homelessness.

Families with other situations including homelessness, and children in foster care, or receiving SSI or TANF also are eligible.

From the information summarised above, it is clear that Indigenous communities in Australia face a serious housing shortage across a number of indicators including homelessness and inadequate housing.

(a) employment status; (b) source or level of income; (c) housing status, including homelessness; (d) level of education; or (e) any other circumstance similar to those mentioned in (a), (b), (c), and (d).

As someone who has spent the last 18 years in the classroom, I've seen too many students who live in crises and experience trauma every day, including homelessness or witnessing and experiencing acts of violence.

Cuomo has been clashing with de Blasio for over a year on a wide range of issues including homelessness, higher taxes on the wealthy, pre-K education cost, minimum - wage hikes, and efforts to win Democratic control of the Senate.

Cuomo, straining to be heard over bagpipes and drums participating in the festivities, reeled off a number of issues he wants to work on — presumably with his rival the mayor — including homelessness, housing, civil rights and «the abuses that are going on at Rikers Island.»

The congressman who represents Brooklyn and Queens has criticized de Blasio on issues including homelessness, affordable housing and the amount of time he has spent traveling outside the city.

«While we warmly welcome the Government's pledges to tackle rough sleeping, including a homelessness and rough sleeping taskforce, now that we know the solutions to end rough sleeping for good we're calling on the Government to take swift action to tackle the problem and fix it once and for all.»

ECPC provides parenting education groups and counseling to the residents and training for staff at homeless and domestic violence shelters to counteract serious risk factors including homelessness, poverty, youth or emancipation from the child welfare system.

Most are dealing with challenges including homelessness, addictions, mental illness.

A reduction in illiteracy, she reasoned, could improve numerous ills that concerned her, including homelessness, teenage pregnancies, hunger and crime.

«Factors that do not support involuntary treatment include homelessness or mental illness alone; idiosyncratic behavior; conclusory assertions that person poses danger; mere fact that person would benefit from treatment,» the document said.

Housing work includes homelessness, eviction and rent assessment.

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His rough upbringing — which includes a revolving door of stepfathers, an alcoholic mother who chased him around with a knife, and a period of homelessness — makes a compelling origin story, a tale he still emotionally unspools at his seminars decades later.

Matt explained that animal cruelty and homelessness are two major focus areas and some of the key issues include dog - fighting and puppy mills.

Points made in the blog post include the following: - CHF disburses approximately $ 42 million a year to programs for persons experiencing homelessness in -LSB-...]

Points made in the opinion piece include the following: - The City of Toronto has worked hard to develop good practices on the ground to address homelessness.

MAY 2007: Tyee investigative editor Monte Paulsen's relentless focus on state of homelessness in Vancouver and B.C., and potential solutions, includes his groundbreaking series looking towards the coming Olympics: «More Homeless than Athletes in 2010.»

The book is suitable reading materials for ages 13 and up, and includes discussion questions and a quiz about homelessness to guide a family conversation.

The national housing strategy released by the Liberals this week did include a specific recognition that «veteran homelessness is unacceptable,» and that «one homeless veteran is one too many.»

Minister Hancock is a seasoned govern0r who may be the only MLA who can help weave and organize this newly formed portfolio, which includes Children and Youth Services, Employment and Immigration (except for immigration), Homelessness, Alberta Supports (from Seniors and Community Supports).

Her career has included working for the Nelson Committee on Homelessness, and managing West Kootenay non-profits including the Nelson Food Cupboad and a micro-finance organization.

Poverty has various manifestations, including lack of income and productive resources sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihoods; hunger and malnutrition; ill - health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic services; increased morbidity and mortality from illness; homelessness and inadequate housing; unsafe environments; and social discrimination and exclusion.

Their books include The South African Churches in a Revolutionary Situation and The Faces of Homelessness.

Greg Paul is a member and the founding pastor of Sanctuary Toronto, a ministry and faith community serving some of the most marginalized people in Canada's largest city, including those struggling with addiction, mental illness, prostitution, and homelessness.

I had previously gone through a lot of traumatic incidents such as homelessness, rapes and criminal activity, including sex work.

«We offer them a cup of coffee and then refer them to the city council's homelessness team and other agencies including the Gatehouse charity.

Open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, Midway provides women and children experiencing homelessness with much more than shelter and meals including case management, support groups, job training, mental health services, and a Children's Program.

We recently held a UV Table Tennis event at The Union and we've got lots more events coming up, including some outreach work to tackle food poverty and homelessness, Pongathon, a pop up at Manchester Street Games and hosting the Manchester Open!»

Ask teens how they would address problems in their community, including economic inequality, racial tension or homelessness, to open the door to a dialogue around social justice.

-LSB-...] include Adventures in [Crunchy] Parenting on WIC and Infant Formula, and PhDinParenting's Lactivism and the Homelessness Problem and The Economics of Breastfeeding: A Cost - Benefit Analysis.

The event includes a 5k and a Bed Race to race funds to support families transition ing out of homelessness.

This rhetoric has been used to justify devastating welfare cuts - including caps on in - work benefits and cuts to disability support - which in turn have led to a rise in food bank use, homelessness, and child poverty.

A Cuomo official on Wednesday in an email detailed the length of each applause line paired with the issue that garnered the audience reaction, including 24 seconds when Cuomo praised first responders, seven seconds when he gave a shout out to Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, 10 seconds when he vowed to defend the Roe v. Wade decision, 11 seconds when he vowed to fight homelessness and more than a full minute of combined applause for Akeem Browder when he was recognized.

These issues included a potential that the plan would cost more money than it saved and increase homelessness by 20,000 on top of the 20,000 already anticipated due to other changes to housing benefit.

The St. Barnabas Wellness Care and Affordable housing development is part of Governor Cuomo's unprecedented commitment to affordable housing and community renewal, which includes $ 20 billion in the 2016 - 17 state budget for comprehensive statewide housing and homelessness action plans.

The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building and preserving 112,000 units of affordable housing, including 6,000 of supportive housing.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took an unexpected detour from her fundraising - only schedule in San Francisco, CA yesterday to visit a Chinatown teahouse, where she spent an hour with Mayor Ed Lee discussing urban issues including housing and homelessness.

Homelessness in New York City has reached its highest levels since the Great Depression, according to advocates, with shelter populations in December exceeding 59,000 people, including about 23,000 children.

During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

It includes a multi-year plan to combat homelessness, together with the development of 10 anti-poverty tasks forces; these are productive ways to recognize that child poverty and homelessness are at record levels across the state.

Lakeville Estates in Livingston County is part of Governor Cuomo's unprecedented commitment to affordable housing and community renewal, which includes $ 20 billion for comprehensive statewide affordable housing and homelessness action plans.

The Woodlands Community in Steuben County is part of Governor Cuomo's unprecedented commitment to affordable housing and community renewal, which includes $ 20 billion in the 2016 - 17 state budget for comprehensive statewide affordable housing and homelessness action plans.

Webster Green Apartments is part of Governor Cuomo's unprecedented commitment to affordable housing and community renewal, which includes $ 20 billion in the FY 2017 Budget for comprehensive statewide housing and homelessness action plans.

Participants who will gather at the Capitol include «members of the Albany Can End Homelessness in New York State campaign; members of the State legislature — including Assembly Members Andrew Hevesi, Michael Blake, Kimberly Jean - Pierre and others; faith leaders; and homeless New Yorkers in need of housing assistance.

Still, there are key pieces of his speech that the governor has kept under wraps, including what he has said are top priorities: government ethics, homelessness, and education.

That bill is likely stalled in the Council, though it has over thirty sponsors, while the new budget includes «$ 1.5 million in new staff and resources to meet the Mayor's goal of ending veteran homelessness, and $ 335,000 to fund a team of Veterans Service Officers that will be deployed in communities throughout the five boroughs,» according to the mayor's office.