Sentences with phrase «issues on behalf of your children»

Decision - making ability — called legal custody in other states — establishes a prescribed routine for how you and your spouse will deal with major issues on behalf of your children.

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In the past, she has worked with Republicans on legislation that reformed the foster care system and encouraged more adoptions, issues I know matter to many pro-life evangelicals who advocate on behalf of adoption and open their homes to children.

Working tirelessly on behalf of children's safety issues for more than a decade, Pattie served as Community Outreach Director for the national child advocacy agency, Parents For Megan's Law, and is certified as both a C hild Visitation Monitor and Child Safety Educchild advocacy agency, Parents For Megan's Law, and is certified as both a C hild Visitation Monitor and Child Safety EducChild Safety Educator.

The projects goals are to: 1) reduce the number of children expelled from early care and education settings due to behavioral issues, 2) increase understanding of social and emotional development and its impact on educational success, and 3) link and bridge systems and services on behalf of a child, family, and program.

She studied Psychology and English Literature at Durham University, and has worked all over the world, most notably mining opals in the Australian outback and with John Humphrys, as a volunteer, on behalf of his charity «The Kitchen Table Charities Trust», for whom she travelled to Madagascar to highlight the issues many children face there.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

«Her Excellency Aisha Buhari has appealed to the ruling party All Progressives Congress, APC not to renege on their campaign promise of paying N5, 000 to 25 million unemployed Nigerians and giving school children one free meal a day,» read a statement issued on her behalf by Adebisi Olumide, her media aide.

The long - awaited opinion, issued Aug. 25 by Judge Steven L. Lefelt, is the first ruling on the equity issues raised by Abbott v. Burke, the lawsuit filed in 1981 on behalf of 20 children attending schools in Camden, East Orange, Irvington, and Jersey City.

They seemingly ignore the fact that DeVos has been unable to convince Trump to take any positive action on behalf of vulnerable children; DeVos couldn't even convince the administration to wait some time before ending the Obama Administration's guidance on dealing with the bathroom issues of transgendered students.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

Teach For America alum such as Deray McKesson are rightfully standing with criminal justice reformers on behalf of children who must deal with issues outside as well as inside of schools.

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In both cases of domestic abuse and child abuse, a judge or circuit court commissioner shall issue a temporary restraining order ordering the respondent to refrain from removing, hiding, damaging, harming, or mistreating, or disposing of, a household pet, to allow the petitioner or a family member or household member of the petitioner acting on his or her behalf to retrieve a household pet, or any combination of these remedies requested in the petition.

As a dedicated advocate in the capitol and the courtroom, Ms. Kroeger has been vocal in the Florida legislature lobbying on behalf of child safety issues.

As it is our mission to act on behalf of Ontario's registered early childhood educators (RECEs), our response to the Ministry's request for feedback on the Phase 2 Regulatory Posting related to the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014 (CCEYA) and the work of the Minister of Education's Early Years Advisory Committee focuses mainly on issues of particular concern to RECE professionals.

Please note that, in Florida, if the state files a petition to establish paternity and child support on behalf of a mother, the issue of a father's custody rights will not necessarily be addressed.

On 16 November 2009, the then Prime Minister of Australia, Hon Kevin Rudd, issued a formal statement of acknowledgement and apology, on behalf of the nation, to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants concerning the abuse and neglect suffered by many children in institutional or other out - of - home care during the last century across AustraliOn 16 November 2009, the then Prime Minister of Australia, Hon Kevin Rudd, issued a formal statement of acknowledgement and apology, on behalf of the nation, to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants concerning the abuse and neglect suffered by many children in institutional or other out - of - home care during the last century across Australion behalf of the nation, to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants concerning the abuse and neglect suffered by many children in institutional or other out - of - home care during the last century across Australia.

An acknowledgment to the court in a record from the relevant foreign consulate or embassy that no passport application has been made, or passport issued, on behalf of the child.

The projects goals are to: 1) reduce the number of children expelled from early care and education settings due to behavioral issues, 2) increase understanding of social and emotional development and its impact on educational success, and 3) link and bridge systems and services on behalf of a child, family, and program.

The mission of the Tribal and Indigenous Early Childhood Network Interest Forum is to attract, recruit, and retain Native American / Alaska and Hawaiian Natives to NAEYC, to promote dialogue on relevant issues pertaining to Tribal and Indigenous Early Childhood programs, and to provide an opportunity for professionals, para-professionals, parents, and tribal leaders to become more active in advocating and promoting quality early childhood services on behalf of Native American / Alaska and Hawaiian Native children and families.

«The experts testifying on behalf of each of the parties noted, on the other hand, that the new wife had never harmed the children, and that the young man's weight loss stemmed either from a severe case of parental alienation (in the view of one expert), or from «anxiety related issues» (in the view of the other).»

Letter sent on behalf of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition, to Dominic Mancini, Acting Administrator, Office of Management and Budget, requesting that a critical question on removal from child care or preschool due to behavior issues not be taken out of the National Survey of Children's Health.

Campaigns on behalf of children in care, carers and families to raise awareness of the issues they face across the UK.

(b) any passport or other travel document that has been issued to the child or any other person concerned by or on behalf of the government of a foreign country.

It's not just millennials who are racking up the debt; baby boomers, either because they're taking out loans on behalf of their children or they're going back to school themselves, hold a significant portion of it, said Meta Brown, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who joined Castro and Chopra at a session titled «The Impact of Student Debt on Housing Choices: Regulatory Issues Forum» on Tuesday.

«We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Bob,» a statement issued on behalf of his wife Linda, the couple's two children, Jack and Rosa, and Hoskins's two children from his first marriage, Alex and Sarah, said.