Sentences with phrase «levels of social disadvantage»

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Large - scale studies reveal a number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as low levels of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardship.

Europe About Blog A network of youth and social workers working with young people with disadvantaged backgrounds on local, regional and international levels.

In particular, they will be looking to support teachers in schools serving communities with the highest levels of social and economic disadvantage.

Central to the concentration is research on the factors that put children or youth at a disadvantage, and those assets — family, community, or cultural — that support high levels of academic, social, and moral development; healthy individuals; and effective schools.

From the May 2018 issue of Chicago Union Teacher: Special education caseloads are exceeding recommended levels, putting social workers at a disadvantage and causing students to miss out on much - needed services.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

Europe About Blog A network of youth and social workers working with young people with disadvantaged backgrounds on local, regional and international levels.

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

Similarly in late June 2005, all Australian governments reaffirmed their commitment to «advance reconciliation and address the social and economic disadvantages experienced by many indigenous Australians» at the meeting of the Council of Australian Governments.38 This Communique © from COAG commits to indigenous participation at all levels; engagement with representative organisations; flexible approaches and adequate resources to support capacity at the local and regional levels.39 The Communique © also recognised the importance of a learning approach to service delivery and policy development.

Women who experience IPV may also be more likely to live in communities with higher levels of social disorganization, 36 disadvantage, 37 and violence.38 Several studies have found evidence that familial violence exacerbates the adverse impact of child exposure to community violence.39 Neighborhood safety may serve as a barrier to the ability to exercise and play outdoors.

Europe About Blog A network of youth and social workers working with young people with disadvantaged backgrounds on local, regional and international levels.

While children from CALD communities can have high levels of resilience and resourcefulness, recent research shows that they also face disadvantage in health, education and access to social opportunities (1).

For both men and women, general support for social inequality was associated with endorsement of traditional gender power dynamics in the bedroom, which is perhaps not surprising (i.e., if you support inequality at a general level, you are likely to support more specific forms of inequality, even those that personally disadvantage you).

One of those disadvantages for students from low - SES families and neighborhoods is that they can have lower levels of social - emotional competence than other students.

Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57

Parents living in disadvantaged communities with high levels of chronic unemployment, poverty, social exclusion, criminality, violence and substance abuse problems as well as parents of children with behavior problems; parents of children who are performing poorly in school; parents in families with substance abuse issues; parents in families with a history of violence, abuse, or neglect; parents with difficulty managing their child's behavior, and lastly, parents who are at high risk of abuse and neglect

In addition, broader commitments at the level of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to address Indigenous disadvantage can also be considered an address to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health to the degree they address the social determinants of health.

The Commonwealth, State and Territory governments have also responded to the alarming levels of disadvantage in Indigenous communities with policies aimed at economic and social development for Indigenous people.

In recognition of this and the current level of disadvantage faced by Indigenous Australian, the Australian Government has nominated Indigenous Australians as a priority group in the social inclusion framework.