Sentences with phrase «kids in the communities where»

Monogram Loves Kids, Monogram Foods» charity organization, raises money and awards grants to organizations that help kids in the communities where its plants are located.

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«I help my kids with their homework or participate in a community event where I can't think about work.»

Donations are directed to the BBBS agency operating in the city or region where the investment is made to ensure that kids who need a mentor have access to one in their community.

but it does happens mostly in rural area areas or at very poor communities where girls have no education but just work at their homes or farm fields or when families are poor and needed the marriage money to support the rest of kids they have..

There's a beautiful world of hurting crazy out there and our brave kids are in the centre of it, and our people are the bloodied wounded because of it, and our dreams and our hopes and our futures and our communities and our countries are hanging in the balance through it, and there is a war in the heavenlies and the man laying beside me is believing that if our lives aren't up in the air where the battle is, our lives on the ground fail.

As Dan and I enter that stage of life when we will likely start a family, we want to raise our kids in a community of Christ - followers where diversity is celebrated, questions are welcomed, and differences are handled with love and respect... not flippant «farewells.»

Last summer, we had a meal program where we served lunch (free of charge) to kids in the community who always get there two meals a day at school but go hungry during the summer.

There is a community in this world where a white person can look at a neighbor kid with dark skin and say somethin like «thats our Jeffry, and they do nt mean the plantations Jeffry, they mean the jeffry of their hearts.

But others are much more worldly in their investments, where being even just a superficial church going, one gets club membership with community status, feelings of belonging, feelings of self - worth, feeling of being upright and hopes that their kids will grow up moral and they can stave off a very more tragedies of illness and disasters through god - magic.

For some reason, the rumor has been going around, especially in parenting communities where loving parents want to protect their kids at all costs, that religiously wearing sunscreen is the only way to prevent skin cancer.

We, personally, also like the ideas that the clothes and toys we've become sentimentally attached to can have new lives where they will be loved by another family in our community — and that the things we bring home from the swap have some history of exciting adventures and experiences with other kids!

The out - of - this - world Community Design Lab where kids and adults alike can participate in hands - on astronomy crafts such as DIY solar phone filters, pinhole eclipse projectors and more.

Of course the littlest one decided that it would be a good day for a «splash day,» where we fill up the inflatable pool (our HOA doesn't allow a permanent one in the yard, and the community pool has closed for the season), some beach toys, and just let the kids have at it.

Do we want to live in communities where we have to battle corporations to raise kids that are healthy both in body and soul?

To help ensure that all kids in the community have a chance to participate in its wide variety of sports programs, the City of Henderson has a Financial Assistance Program where those kids from lower income families can receive scholarships to participate.

We work with kids right in the settings where they're learning and developing: schools, child care centres, camps, health care centres and community organizations.

We all have an important role to play in creating a country where the healthy choice is the easy choice — for all kids in every community.

The magazine's mission is to share with modern moms / dads; baby and kids retailers; and the media the best inventions in the baby and kids business world with tips, trends, and advice from real moms and experts, and to build a community where modern parents can connect, have a voice, and be inspired.

I agree in principle, but what about communities where the food service staff is failing kids, but the community — because of poverty, lack of education, etc. — doesn't know how to take action?

I beg to ask where is the privacy of these kids (this is not just an adoptive community problem) Yet it seems a bit too much in the adoptive community.

When not busy meeting deadlines and chasing cats and kids, she enjoys acting in community theatre (where she met her husband), watching old movies, and sharpening her history buff skills.

«We're in a unique position — New York State can turn a bad situation into welcome action for communities where lungs are at risk and kids» lives endangered due to dirty diesel.

«Pre-K has the highest impact for kids from low - income communities, kids of color, so in the very districts that probably can't afford it is exactly where we need it.»

So, why shouldn't a kid who's interested in mechanical things or engines or technology meet people from the community who do that kind of stuff, and who are excited about what they are doing and where it's going?

So, it really became a community - building exercise in my class where all of the kids kind of sat in a circle and they read out to their peers what they wished their teacher knew.

This, she suggests, fosters out - of - control toddlers and may lead to serious problems down the road, particularly for kids growing up in neighborhoods where community bonds have frayed.

And this is as true for children in our suburban schools — where one out of every four fourth - graders are functionally illiterate — as it is for our poorest and minority kids in urban and rural communities.

We must do far better for kids trapped in schools where policymakers have known for years that the systems serving them are not doing right by families and communities.

The group of high - performing charters includes Manhattan's Broome Street Academy Charter School, which targets homeless kids, and Leadership Prep Ocean Hill in Brooklyn, where kids from the underserved community of Brownsville achieve some of the highest test scores in Brooklyn.

Pick your reason to not partake: The total lack of research behind this assessment so there is no reliability or validity to it what so ever, they are using our kids to norm reference their assessment, for free, the subjectively set cut scores done by vote, not science, that have been set to intentionally fail 60 - 70 % of our students and their teachers which in turn allows for a whole other set of things to happen to schools and communities, the pending lawsuit against SBAC in Missouri where a judge issued a restraining order against the state from making payments, that we now also have to pay to them (where is that MOU?)

And we see the pushback happening in community after community... High schools are organizing — they're organized in Providence, where they've got the superintendent of schools on their side, arguing with the state board of education... They're saying don't use a standardized test as a high school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of kids.

As Paul Tough points out in his recent New York Times article, «Rich kids graduate; poor and working class kids don't» the graduation rates for students from underrepresented communities are significantly higher at small liberal arts institutions, where students are encouraged to question the dominant discourse and develop their own policy perspectives.

But as Lake and her team points out in the case of Detroit (where the nine charter oversight groups — including Detroit Public Schools — have done little to provide kids with high - quality options), what likely ends up happening is that shoddy school operators end up engaging in shopping for lax authorizers who will let them off the hook for failure and won't think through community needs.

The idea behind inclusionary housing in Sacramento is that by having more mixed - income and diverse communities, lower - income workers can own a home near where their jobs are, and their kids can live near good, quality schools that have a history of performing well academically (Garvin, 2015).

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

I mean, do we really have to play this game, where because I'm who I am and you're who you are, we pretend that the word «fuck» doesn't exist, and while we're at it, that the action that underlies the word doesn't exist, and I just puke up a bunch of junk about how some teacher changed my life by teaching me how Shakespeare was actually the world's first rapper, or about the time I was doing community service with a bunch of homeless teenagers dying of cancer or something and felt the deep call of selfless action, or else I pull out all the stops and give you the play - by - play sob story of what happened to my dad, or some other terrible heartbreak of a thing that makes you feel so bummed out you figure, what the hell, we've got quotas after all, and this kid's gotten screwed over enough, so you give me the big old stamp of approval and a fat envelope in the mail come April?

«I am happy, not only that we got the award for being one of the cleanest beaches in the country and being able to enjoy it every day, but by the fact that my kids are growing in a community where people do care,» commented Pranamar Villas manager Mario Matarrita.

Upon graduation Votzmeyer was offered a position as Education Coordinator at K Space Contemporary where she has expanded the education programming to include launching an outreach program for K - 12 schools in Corpus Christi and surrounding counties, Senior Adult Outreach in senior adult living communities and Senior Community Centers, Kids in the Know at The Learning Garden at Tom Graham Park, Art in Literacy Project at La Retama Central Library, and the Kids» Palette within the Keep Corpus Christi Mural Arts Program.

Children by the Salween River in Thailand, International Day of Action for Rivers 2012Hundreds of kilometers downstream from where I was this time last year, on this International Day of Action for Rivers it became clear to me that a major reason why communities in Burma and Thailand are opposed to dam building on the Salween River is because of their children.Half of those gathered on March 14 along the Salween's banks in a small village in Thailand were kids.

I've seen it in myself and I've seen it in the people that have been in and around the green community for the last three or four years; once you start thinking more about what goes in to the manufacturing process, where things come from, and how they effect our environment, and our kids, then you start to put a different kind of filter on all of your consumption.

Money is spent only in the local community where the school is being built, according to Hug It Forward, and because kids do the building themselves, they take ownership of and pride in the school.

When he came to Toronto last June, Tuckett brought many ideas on helping to bridge the gap for future generations of lawyers, including reaching down to the high school level in communities where kids might not consider law as a career.

Diversity in communities can foster strength, but it can also be a catalyst for depression in youths who feel they don't fit in.2 ALSO (Advocacy, Leadership, Support, Outreach) Youth in Sarasota, Florida provides youth in the community with a «drop in center;» a safe haven where kids can escape bullying, teasing, or other stresses in a secure, positive, drug - free atmosphere.3 ALSO was founded on the belief that no one should have to hide their sexual orientation or preferred gender, and works in conjunction with the community to support all at - risk youth.

The elements of Kids Matter work together to promote healthy families and kids that can operate at school, and supports the school to create an environment where kids can flourish and have their needs met in community, in any mental health difficulties, and to also connect to the family, extended family, and community agencies if neeKids Matter work together to promote healthy families and kids that can operate at school, and supports the school to create an environment where kids can flourish and have their needs met in community, in any mental health difficulties, and to also connect to the family, extended family, and community agencies if neekids that can operate at school, and supports the school to create an environment where kids can flourish and have their needs met in community, in any mental health difficulties, and to also connect to the family, extended family, and community agencies if neekids can flourish and have their needs met in community, in any mental health difficulties, and to also connect to the family, extended family, and community agencies if needed.

I'd seen this film a long time ago but when I saw it again this time, I had a much better appreciation of the Aboriginal way of being and the thing that really struck me in this film was there was a section of the film where they were going to do this aeroplane song and dance corroboree and they were getting ready for it and you know there are all these Elders and you know very wise and respected Elders you know making their costumes they were gonna wear, talking about how it was gonna be and in amongst all these people there's little children you know of one 1 or 2 or 3 years old who were just crawling around and you know watching and listening, trying on their head - dresses and they were completely welcomed into that adult community, there was no sense of, you know this is grown up business, you kids go off and play which is very much the western model.

We respect that the statutory child protection system has a role to play in removing kids from unsafe environments, and where this is necessary, we work with the system to ensure kids removed from home retain the connections to their community and culture which help form their identity.

• Check in with mothers and fathers to see how they are doing • Promote a culture where it is okay for employees to reach out and ask for help • Participate in an employee assistance program (EAP) or maintain a list of available resources to support families • Learn where your public officials stand on kids» issues and use your vote to support families • Allow for flexibility in scheduling where possible • Work with employees to manage workload in times of added stress • Create a community brag board so employees can show off kids, pets, homes and hobbies • Support maternity / paternity leave for new parents (including adoptive and foster parents) • Offer «lunch and learns» for employees wanting to learn more about child development • Involve your business in community events • Sponsor a day of service for all employees to volunteer with programs working to strengthen families

In addition to our counseling services, Kids & Families Together offers a supportive resource center where individuals, families and community members can meet and share information and concerns.

«The most productive order comes in classrooms that are communities, where kids know that they are secure and cared for.»

I also like the cottage communities by Ross Chapin My thinking is that in many areas of CA where crime is out of control, etc. restoring a sense of community, with interaction among neighbors, safe areas for kids, etc. makes sense.