Sentences with phrase «long cycles of poverty»

Visits by caring, experienced professionals can turn good intentions into good parenting, breaking generations - long cycles of poverty, addiction, abuse and despair.

Home visiting can make all the difference in the lives of individual families and by extension, entire communities, breaking generations - long cycles of poverty, addiction, abuse and despair,» said Diedra Henry - Spires, CEO of the Dalton Daley Group and co-convener of the Home Visiting Coalition.

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Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.

They seek to interrupt the cycle of poverty by providing low - income children with access to high - quality educational options that will boost their chances of long - term success.

The Africa Inspires project is just the beginning of a long term programme which will, «Create opportunities for trade relationships with communities which could significantly improve living standards, increase access to market, and break cycles of poverty.»

He also brings up the whole gamut of meritless «scientific» arguments (solar activity, Milankovitch cycles, cosmic rays, nameless «natural cycles,» platitudes about «uncertainty / complexity») as well as the usual conspiracy theories about AGW theory being a commie plot to bring down the west, etc., all of which made it hard for me to take his poverty argument seriously for a long time.

Though the positive effects of home visiting programs are generally small, these programs have been heralded by many as a key model of early intervention capable of producing long lasting effects for children and families and ending the cycle of poverty and are receiving unprecedented support as an evidence - based initiative.

The economic challenges faced by these families threaten the long - term success of their children and contribute to an intergenerational cycle of poverty.

Intergenerational cycles of poverty are known to be associated with poor outcomes for children.40 41 Low maternal birthweight42 and poor maternal nutrition during childhood43 are associated with low birthweight in the mother's offspring, which is associated with poor outcomes in infancy, childhood, and into adult life.44 Material deprivation increases the risk of illness and other adverse outcomes throughout the life course.45 46 In addition, the length of time in poverty appears to have important effects on child behavioural and educational outcomes, which are probably mediated, in part, by the adverse effects of long term poverty on parenting.