Sentences with phrase «more community awareness»

The San Marcos Area Board of REALTORS ® in Texas launched two new ways to garner more community awareness for members.

Its desired results include a reduction in abandoned and euthanized animals; a reduction in the oversupply of kittens; a higher percentage of spayed / neutered and microchipped pets; and more community awareness of overpopulation and efforts to address it.

Wilkinson would also like to see more community awareness regarding the availability emergency contraception, such as advertising from a variety of sources, like drug companies, sex educators, community health workers and public health departments.

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A more thoroughgoing awareness of the nature of imperial ideology in the New Testament world should also lead us to think again about the political character of the early Christian communities.

On the positive side, this decision shows a welcome awareness that congregational leadership has to do with more than deciding which brand of paper towels to use in the rest rooms; it aims at developing Christian discipleship in the community.

The company is gaining national attention for its accelerated growth and commitment to community, including Newk's Cares, an ongoing program which has raised more than $ 720,000 for ovarian cancer research and awareness.

The goal, to celebrate family farms, create culinary awareness for heritage breed pigs and tilt the scales to favor today's emerging chef community struggling to pay premium prices for safer, more flavorful food raised by real farmers.

IFOAM — Organics International is attending the COP22 climate talks to speak out on behalf of the organic food and farming community and to raise awareness of the urgent need to make organic agriculture part of a climate change solution.According to Gabor Figeczky, Advocacy Manager at IFOAM — Organics... more

Other things discussed yesterday: breastfeeding breaks at work, popular awareness of WHO guidelines BF «2 years and beyond,» protecting breastfeeding in public, role models and normalising breastfeeding in non-breastfeeding communities, support local breastfeeding cafes, access to skilled breastfeeding support (more than BFI 3 day course), integrate support from breastfeeding voluntary organisations.

Our community, already well versed in the benefits of openness and poised to enter a values - based open adoption, left the evening with even more wisdom and self - awareness courtesy of Lori's candid style.

Daniel B. Peters, Ph.D. is a psychologist, author, and Co-founder of Parent Footprint, an interactive parenting education community offering Parent Footprint Awareness Training with the mission to make the world a more compassionate and loving place — one parent and one child at a time.

«Partnering with Gamble Jones, a longstanding community establishment with a shared mission of serving the needs of children and families in our backyard, is a privilege for Five Acres and an opportunity with their support to expand more awareness of the critical need of keeping families safe and intact.

In the U.S., this effort led to the growth of community breastfeeding support circles, more awareness about the benefits linked to breastfeeding, which include lower rates of diarrhea, infections, diabetes and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and officially designated «Baby - Friendly» hospitals that earn certification by encouraging breastfeeding as the norm.

In Erie County, where more than 100 new cases of HIV are diagnosed each year, the County's Department of Health is working to raise awareness through the media, online, and with partners in the community.

«The more resources and partners we have working together to create awareness and educate our community of the dangers of underage drinking, the safer we can keep our children and families,» says Beth Anzalone, Executive Director of WNY United.

Students from Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville and King Center Charter School in Buffalo participated in the second annual «Bullying Stops Here» announcement at the downtown Central Library this morning where more than a dozen human service organizations joined forces with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System for a community - wide, month - long anti-bullying awareness initiative.

African - Americans» lower rates of eye care are believed to stem from less access and more barriers to care, fewer eye care providers with practices situated in their communities, and a lack of awareness of their high - risk status for vision loss and how routine preventive care could reduce that risk.

«We're hoping that clinicians will use these criteria and that there will be more awareness among clinicians and the community about Christianson Syndrome,» said Brown University biology and psychiatry Assistant Professor Dr. Eric Morrow, senior author of the study in press in the Annals of Neurology.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

He said the Western Area Surge will help to bring out sick people in the homes with an extensive awareness campaign to reach out to more communities.

Through a feature film, interactive app, website and more, the movement seeks to create a motivated community of global citizens who will replant the world's forests and continue to raise awareness and support for the importance of trees in our lives.»

By spreading the word about taken - as - prescribed benzodiazepine risks, harms, and dangers, W - BAD (World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day) hopes to bring awareness to the general public and the medical community about this problem before more people are needlesslAwareness Day) hopes to bring awareness to the general public and the medical community about this problem before more people are needlesslawareness to the general public and the medical community about this problem before more people are needlessly harmed.

Support tweens and adolescents in developing self - awareness, emotional resilience, healthy body image, and compassion through asana, breathing practices, meditation, community building, «mat chats» and more.

Working with a student run theater group that brainstormed ideas of how performing arts could raise money or awareness in the community, Allie says she «began to enjoy researching the nonprofits we wanted to donate the proceeds of our shows to more than I enjoyed actually performing.»

With the miners striking, HIV AIDS in its early stages of spreading and the gay and lesbian community more rightfully prominent in their stature and awareness, a group of UK gay campaigners in 1984 get together to help miners during their extensive strike of the National Union of Mineworkers.

Results were statistically analyzed, finding that the program increased students» awareness and knowledge of their natural environments more than other outdoor education or community service activities.

Over two - third of young people that are participate in these global education programs remain active in raising more awareness in their communities of the benefit of global education.

While some of these programs can be said to be effective in raising awareness on global education, however records shows that most of these programs focus more on literate youths in urban rich communities, leaving many illiterate youths especially in rural and urban slums with little or no access to such programs.

Over the course of the 2017 — 18 academic year, PACE's programming on campus has been designed to inspire dialogue within the HGSE community around issues including the model minority myth, awareness of mental wellness, data disaggregation, and more.

«There's much more awareness now in poor and minority communities that they don't want their children hidden from performance standards and accountability,» Miller said.

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It's no secret that the education advocacy community is not happy with the direction of President Obama's education policies, though he seems oblivious himself to the depth and strength of anger he and his corporate reform front man, Arne Duncan, have inspired (for more on the President's seeming lack of awareness, read this great post by Diane Ravitch.)

More recently, I was awarded the NAGC Annemarie Roeper Global Awareness Annual Award, the National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC) Community Service Award, the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE) Neuber - Pregler Award for Outstanding Advocacy Efforts to Assure Quality Education for the Gifted, and the SENG Service Award for exceptional volunteer service to SENG.

When students have a voice, self - worth, active engagement, and purpose they are more likely to show marked improvements in academic achievement, social awareness and making positive contributions to their school community.

Her experience led her to an awareness of the deficiencies in public education and the need for more restorative and balanced approaches for student, and whole school community, growth and healing.

You can help support this effort by organizing one or more activities in your community to raise awareness of the need for these important protections for students of color during the week of Friday, March 16th through Thursday, March 22nd.

Through awareness and trauma - informed practices, community schools can help create school environments that are more supporting young people who have or continue to experience trauma.

Through partnering with parents, teachers and community leaders from across the state, Georgia PTO works to raise awareness and effectively advocate for more high quality educational options — for every local community in Georgia.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced today that it is issuing $ 2,488,497 in grants to state entities, local communities, and non-profit organizations to address pipeline safety challenges related to damage prevention and to promote more involvement in local pipeline safety initiatives and awareness efforts.

At Webb Hyundai Highland and Webb Hyundai Merrillville, were more than a business, but a place that aims to spread awareness, contribute to the growth of our communities, and above all, spread more joy.

Growing - money, you and community is an intermediate stage, where students learn more about the different forms that money can take, develop an awareness of their rights and responsibilities as consumers and develop skills in making smart choices with money.

During this time, she saw firsthand the struggles pit bull type dogs were facing in her community as well as a need for more adoption awareness and responsible dog ownership education.

The altar will honor beloved felines and also raise awareness about FixNation's work on behalf of community cats still living among us — including spaying and neutering more than 100 cats that live on the cemetery grounds!

As hosts, we aim to raise awareness about the thousands of homeless animals in our community and feature more than 300 of these perfectly adoptable pets to the public.

For more information about our Volunteer Program please see links on the right of page or contact our Community Awareness Coordinator at This email address is being protected from spambots.

The New York City Feral Cat Initiative is a coalition of more than 150 animal rescue groups and shelters whose joint mission is «to raise awareness about the thousands of... community cats living outdoors throughout NYC's five boroughs, to offer solutions to prevent the number of homeless cats from increasing, and to successfully manage existing colonies.»

Since her arrival, the organization has tripled the size of the board of directors, developed a more equitable relationship with the city of Lynchburg as their contracted pound, begun managing the regional spay / neuter clinic, created a citywide free spay / neuter effort for community cats, and increased community awareness and involvement in the cause.

WHEREAS, the Township Council believes that a ban on the retail sale of dogs and cats in pet shops will provide community awareness of animal welfare, and, in turn, will encourage a more humane environment in the Township of Randolph and will be in the best interests of the public health, welfare and safety and be in the best interests of the dogs and cats of the Township of Randolph.