Sentences with phrase «justice efforts focus»

Many access to justice efforts focus on crisis moments — serving an individual at a pressure point in their life such as eviction or deportation.

Not exact matches

With religious organizations focusing their efforts on individual spirituality, on meaningful worship experiences, on music, youth pro grams and small groups, is it likely that reli gious commitment is going to challenge people to be con cerned about economic justice as well?

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

In the Democratic - led Assembly, meanwhile, criminal justice concerns include a focus on reform efforts, such as moving criminal cases involving 16 and 17 year olds to juvenile court, a measure that has stalled at the Capitol.

Panels focused on current efforts to tackle climate change, ranging from local environmental initiatives to the global Paris climate agreement, as well as how divestment from fossil fuels can be a tool for climate justice and curbing the impacts of climate change.

Speaking PM Express, Mr Ashigbe urged the media to be focused in their effort to demand justice for assaulted journalists.

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

Perhaps one of the reasons was that the improvement effort was overly focused on equity at the expense of justice.

She continues to focus her efforts on school transformation, social justice, and equity through her work as regional director with the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education.

Veronica McDermott is a retired school superintendent who continues to focus her efforts on school transformation, social justice, and equity.

The reality is that would mean a dedicated team, dedicated time and effort, and it would either result in a detriment to what we're trying to focus on, already adding a PlayStation 3 SKU, or we probably wouldn't be able to do the Wii U version the justice that we'd want.

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Just as one example, the BC Family Justice Innovation Lab arose out of the efforts of a small group of lawyers who had focused their practices on family mediation and collaborative law.

Advocacy Committee: The Advocacy Committee focuses on coordinating efforts to deal with, among other things, issues of barriers to the legal profession by internationally trained lawyers, diversity in the legal community, access to justice, and the role of Canadians in global legal markets.

Access to justice efforts are focusing on ways to alleviate these pressures.

They also wonder if the legal profession isn't focusing its efforts on civility to the detriment of the larger issue of access to justice.

Much of the present efforts toward justice reform is focused on improving public legal education, redesigning justice processes and integrating social services within justice processes.

While it seems everyone is focused on efforts that will likely yield little to no value for those who presently have no access to justice, the areas that are most effective in addressing access are all but ignored, to wit: pro bono and legal aid.

My experience is that, at least in BC, justice reform efforts have focused primarily on accessibility.

The Action Committee is focused on fostering engagement, pursuing a strategic approach to reforms and coordinating the efforts of all participants concerned with civil justice.

Interagency collaboration, a core principle in systems of care, focuses on bringing together and engaging critical stakeholders, such as juvenile justice, mental health, education, law enforcement, and Tribal authorities, in a coordinated and integrated effort to serve children whose needs cross multiple systems.

His argument that prisons are central to maintaining modern inequality, suggests that efforts to address the social determinants of Indigenous health must have a strong focus on policing and justice systems.

Efforts to «close the gap» and boost Indigenous employment — which have been the focus of the «practical reconciliation» approach — have been undermined by our failure as a nation to address the truth and justice elements of the reconciliation process.