Sentences with phrase «inner city program»

2) School Based Legal Clinics: These are embedded in TDSB Parenting and Family Literacy Centres and have a mandate to help families whose children attend one of the TDSB's model schools for inner cities program.

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Students who graduated from my program last year have founded ventures focused on healthy, affordable frozen meals, college preparedness in inner cities, and carbon footprint management software for energy consumers.

Whether supporting one of our high - impact urban business programs or the entire organization, our partners know they are choosing to support an organization dedicated to transforming inner cities across the country.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

She says the residents «think somebody owes them something,» and complains that they spend money on expensive hairstyles, makeup and leather coats but won't pay a token fee to send their children to a weeklong summer camp program her church runs for the benefit of inner - city youngsters.

Several years ago, I suggested to a leading U.S. Catholic bishop that the Campaign for Human Development be transformed into a campaign for inner - city schools, because, as Brinig and Garnett demonstrate, these schools are the Church's best anti-poverty and empowerment program — indeed, they may be America's best anti-poverty program.

He charts the devastating consequences of the transformation of this gang and others into high - stakes, often violent corporate enterprises engaged in franchised dealing in crack cocaine — an entrepreneurial «black capitalism» that does not figure in conservative programs for urban renewal yet plays a significant role in the economic life of the inner city.

«Far too often the case is like... «I have a heart for inner - city youth, so I'm going to create a program and go implement it, but I didn't grow up in that context» or «I don't know what specifically the needs are.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

Realizing that strong inner - city neighborhoods are crucial to its regional economic and social health, Indianapolis shifted the focus of its redevelopment efforts from downtown to seven inner - city neighborhoods, and implemented a program to train community leaders and pay for neighborhood coordinators.

They used the family issue to single out scapegoats (single mothers and inner - city residents), and they avoided talking about the economy and failed to develop meaningful and practical family programs.

CNU is a non-profit, community based organization which provides educational scholarships to inner city youth residing in the 27th Ward of Chicago and assists with various neighborhood programs throughout the year.

Charitable Work: Jason is most proud of his work with charity youth programs including the RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), the Challenger Baseball Program and others serving as both an instructor and motivational speaker for kids.

Now, we want to tell you about an ambitious program that its founders hope will end, once and for all, the cycle of underachievement and failure plaguing so many poor inner - city kids.

A program that encourages young, inner city girls to engage in sports received a financial boost on Saturday.

Republican candidate Rob Astorino's campaign on Tuesday released what amounts to an urban agenda that would create inner - city enterprises zones, place an emphasis on fathers in a family and overhaul public assistance programs through promoting school attendance and reimposing fingerprinting for food - stamp eligibility.

Paladino, a Buffalo developer who leases miles of office space to state government agencies, was instrumental in getting the Empire Zone program expanded from Buffalo's inner city to its office tower downtown.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

The Governor and the legislative leaders agreed to create an inner - city youth employment program and a $ 25 million tax credit for employers who hire unemployed youth between 16 and 24 years of age over the first six months of 2012.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente said today that more than 400 inner city houses have been surveyed by the Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention program for chipped and peeling paint since May of this year as part of its March to the Middle program.

Telvock found the program is beset with slipshod methods and puts more effort into testing predominantly white enclaves with few lead poisoning than in the inner - city neighborhoods where the problem is concentrated.

Telvock's work for Investigative Post includes a three - part series on Buffalo's struggling recycling program, an award - winning series on the badly polluted Scajaquada Creek and a series on lead poisoning in Buffalo's inner city.

Pilot Program Will Address More «At Risk» for Lead Poisoning «Early Detection the Goal of Free Home Inspections» Nearly one hundred inner - city children living «at risk» for lead poisoning can be detected each year as a result of an new initiative which expands free home inspections and educational services in target areas of the City of Utica, Oneida County Executive Antony J. Picente announced tocity children living «at risk» for lead poisoning can be detected each year as a result of an new initiative which expands free home inspections and educational services in target areas of the City of Utica, Oneida County Executive Antony J. Picente announced toCity of Utica, Oneida County Executive Antony J. Picente announced today.

Nearly $ 37 million in funding will be provided to critical jobs programs for inner city youth.

The governor and the legislative leaders agreed to create an inner - city youth employment program and a $ 25 million tax credit for employers who hire unemployed youth between 16 and 24 years of age over the first six months of 2012.

He knew he had a problem with black and Latino city legislators, who were bristling from Cuomo's previous cuts to education and Medicaid, so he included $ 62 million for inner - city jobs programs; he held a much stronger hand with Senate Republicans who might object to tax increases on the wealthy — if they weren't so scared of Cuomo's redistricting them out of their narrow majority.

They'll also talk about the program to offer tax credits to employers who hire inner - city youth and what else her office is doing to support workers and employers in the state.

He also wants a job training program for inner city youth, and more money for regional economic development.

The GOP leader maintained that he and his colleagues favor prolonging the program of mayoral control, but insisted they also wanted more charter school opportunities for inner - city students.

As part of the broader Generating Genius program, Richards facilitated and hosted a school challenge at ICL that paired pupils from inner city schools and Eton College, the prestigious public school, to help them understand different approaches to learning by solving science and engineering - based challenges together.

The program was piloted in five public inner - city elementary schools in Denver, Colo. and three in Hartford, Ct. during the 2013 - 14 school year.

Its offerings include cosmology courses for educators and scientists, partnerships with museums and a «Space Explorers» enrichment program for inner - city middle - and high - school students.

In the beginning James proposed, developed and led programs for at - risk youth in juvenile detention in both an inner - city community program and at a residential treatment facility.

Cooper kept his life well - balanced, however, spending time teaching acting to inner - city children through the Learning through the Expanded Arts Program and taking a job as host of the Discovery Channel show Extreme Treks in a Wild World, which took him on journeys to Peru and British Colombia.

«Born December 11, 1966, in Philadelphia, PA, as the son of Robert and Sandy Durdin (his actual surname), the adolescent Dourdan attended «Freedom Theater,» an inner - city program for aspiring actors, during adolescence.

That mantra sums up the philosophy Bill Courtney relied upon in pep talks to turn around the football program at Manassas High located in inner - city Memphis.

In this study, 62 fifth grade students in three inner - city schools participated in a hands - on gardening program that included classroom activities and growing herbs and vegetables in an outdoor garden.

Jay Mathews describes some of the reasons that interest in teaching may have grown among the best college students: fast - start teacher training programs like Teach for America, new teacher training programs that offer instruction tailored for teachers entering inner city schools, and teaching residencies in which candidates work with experienced teachers for a year.

Piedmont is an inner - city magnet program serving approximately 700 students, half of whom qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program.

While at the Ed School, Johnson taught history at a high school and focused his program on underprivileged, inner - city schools that were dominated by impoverished minority students.

The DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund has made more than $ 1 million in three - year grants to scholarship funds, teacher - development programs, and other activities at inner - city Catholic schools.

Nonetheless, it appears that race is relevant to the way inner - city whites approach going private, and this raises a red flag that choice advocates and program designers need to be concerned about.

The program, funded primarily through the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Inhalant Prevention Program, uses hip - hop as a means to teach students critical - thinking, technology, and business skills; nurture their passion for music; and, most importantly, help them steer clear of drugs and other pitfalls of an inner city chiprogram, funded primarily through the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Inhalant Prevention Program, uses hip - hop as a means to teach students critical - thinking, technology, and business skills; nurture their passion for music; and, most importantly, help them steer clear of drugs and other pitfalls of an inner city chiProgram, uses hip - hop as a means to teach students critical - thinking, technology, and business skills; nurture their passion for music; and, most importantly, help them steer clear of drugs and other pitfalls of an inner city childhood.

The first half of the two - hour program presents images and interviews highlighting discrepancies in quality among schools in the inner city, rural areas, and suburbs.

Armed with this shared belief and the confidence that they could lead, Feinberg and Levin launched KIPP as a 5th - grade public school program in inner - city Houston, Texas.

After graduation, Mowschenson was encouraged by her advisor Senior Lecturer Paul Reville, also Massachusetts Secretary of Education, to take a position at Harvard Medical School running the Harvard Premedical Institute, a program dedicated to getting inner city students excited about the sciences using patient simulation.

School Gardens Sprouting in Chicago Through the Garden Initiative, a three - year - old program in Chicago, horticulture experts collaborate with schools to start gardens in the inner city.

This collaboration enables direct contact with older students who are immersed in and committed to programs of higher education and can represent for inner - city high school students the path to scholastic success.

The task was to divvy up these sources, integrate the information, and decide whether, and how, the Archaeotype program could be used at the inner - city school at which they were student teaching.

The new interagency program, which appeared in Mr. Bush's 1993 budget proposal, is designed to rehabilitate inner - city communities plagued by drugs and violence...