Sentences with phrase «more homeless children»
* Currently, there are more homeless children in the U.S. than at any other time since the Great Depression.
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Women in Need (Win) has provided safe housing, critical services, and groundbreaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives in New York City for more than 33 years.
(Win) has provided safe housing, critical services, and groundbreaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives in New York City for more than 33 years.
I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?
Partnering with organizations like WorldReach (who allows you to sponsor children) and Charity: Water (who lets you tell your friends to donate instead of getting you a birthday present every year) or finding a cause like ending human trafficking, supporting education or assisting the homeless can represent more than just one - time gifts or temporary passions.
«If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation,» she said, «it is not because God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not instruments of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise — in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.»
Long - term housing for homeless women and their children is also a critical need, one often ignored by churches» outreach missions because the homeless men on the streets of downtown areas are more visible.
CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.
Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..
«We rely on the community to help us further the cause of caring for the children of the homeless community and we're delighted that Mr. Cain, Mrs. Sabean, Mrs. Bochy and other family members of the San Francisco Giants have partnered with us to help us provide our Night Night Packages to more than 25,000 homeless children this year.»
«There are more than 150,000 homeless children in New York State, children whose learning is at great risk,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.
If the victim has children, they should automatically be classed as having priority need, if not they must be seen as being more vulnerable through being homeless than an ordinary person.
Over recent years the number of homeless people has soared, camps of rough - sleepers have sprung up around the UK and, according to the charity Shelter, more than 100,000 children will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation.
During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»
There are currently 52,267 people living in the city's homeless shelters, including more than 22,000 children.
We provide lifesaving frontline services to more than 10,000 homeless and at - risk men, women and children per year.
Homeless children are two to three times more likely to be absent from school than other children.
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer called for policies to increase school attendance of homeless children, following an audit that found more than half of students in shelters were chronically absent from public schools.
In her role as the chief executive of WIN, a charity serving homeless women and children, Ms. Quinn was recently at a Brooklyn homeless shelter brokering requests — more fashion programming, a frog to dissect, basketball equipment — from her youngest constituents.
Cuomo pledged a child care tax credit, tuition - free public college for about 80 percent of New York households, more jobs through investment in the private sector and public - private partnership, support for the homeless and funding for affordable housing, all while New York will be vigilant, he said, protecting and promoting the state's progressive social bonafides.
They include rental assistance for families who have been homeless for two years or more, and rent subsidies for victims of domestic violence with children.
The hotel, a Ramada Inn in the middle of Staten Island, is one of 41 across the five boroughs the city is using to house more than 2,600 homeless adults and children, as the city's homeless population has stretched the capacity of the city's shelter system.
«More than 83,000 New York City school kids experienced homelessness at some point in the past year and an average of 23,000 children sleep in the City's homeless shelters each night,» said Borough President KATZ.
(The company said it also paid for costumes for more than 100 children from homeless shelters who attended the party.)
This absence takes on a more instructive shape in subsequent films where the documentary filmmaker as objective observer begins to imply more forcefully that «we» (filmmaker / audience) are not the same (ethnicity, culture, class) as «them» (homeless person / child, unemployed, marginal «other»).
In 1995, The Children's Defense Fund reported devastating statistics about daily life in the United States: 1,420 teenagers give birth; 3,356 adolescents drop out of school; 8,239 children are reported abused or neglected; more than 100,000 children are homeless; about 135,000 children bring guns to schools; and three children die froChildren's Defense Fund reported devastating statistics about daily life in the United States: 1,420 teenagers give birth; 3,356 adolescents drop out of school; 8,239 children are reported abused or neglected; more than 100,000 children are homeless; about 135,000 children bring guns to schools; and three children die frochildren are reported abused or neglected; more than 100,000 children are homeless; about 135,000 children bring guns to schools; and three children die frochildren are homeless; about 135,000 children bring guns to schools; and three children die frochildren bring guns to schools; and three children die frochildren die from abuse.
More than 200 of the children are from low - income families; 10 are homeless.
Of the 20 percent of American children that live in poverty, more than 1 million go hungry every day and more than 1.3 million children are homeless on any given night.
Memo started working full time helping migrants, homeless children, and anyone who needs help in the year of 2003, but his concern for other humans comes from the education he received from his parents when he was a child, from something more that comes from his spirituality and beliefs, according to his own words; and his particular interest in migrants comes from witnessing their extreme situation.
During the summer months, the Frederick agency, which also provides outreach, health care, and other services to the homeless and needy, serves more than 60 meals a day to school - age children.
Of course, as Weissbourd explains, more familiar forms of service, like volunteering at a homeless shelter or reading to children, are worthwhile, and international service trips have value, too.
An impressive aspiration for a 10 - year - old who looked like he needed glasses, but more so because his family was homeless and had none of the resources that could propel a more fortunate child toward his goal.
On Thursday, emergency officials reckoned with a storm that shut down schools for more than a million children, flooded roadways, filled homeless shelters and forced the cancellations of thousands of flights.
For more than five decades, Congress has consistently recognized and acted on the need to promote fair and equal access to public schools for: children of color; children living in poverty; children with disabilities; homeless, foster and migrant children; children in detention; children still learning English; Native children; and girls as well as boys.
But, it says, states need to do far more to get homeless children to the schoolhouse door.
«Children who have been abused, come from homes where parents are in and out of prison or are drug addicts, children who are homeless, have behavioral issues, have special needs, or where English is a second language have even more of a challenge meeting NCLB expectations,» wrote New Hampshire educator DebbChildren who have been abused, come from homes where parents are in and out of prison or are drug addicts, children who are homeless, have behavioral issues, have special needs, or where English is a second language have even more of a challenge meeting NCLB expectations,» wrote New Hampshire educator Debbchildren who are homeless, have behavioral issues, have special needs, or where English is a second language have even more of a challenge meeting NCLB expectations,» wrote New Hampshire educator Debbie Lane.
In her first year as principal at Harvard Elementary in 2012 - 13, Aisha McCarthy was confronted with a school failing to meet No Child Left Behind standards, more than 96 percent of the student body coming from low - income households and a shocking 11 percent of students currently homeless.
There are more than 800 homeless children in Washington County.
(Calif.) A bill aimed at reducing poverty among all children in California may also present an opportunity for rural schools to offer more programs and resources for homeless students.
And, under the Local Control Funding Formula, districts receive additional dollars for each English learner, low - income, homeless and foster child they enroll: 20 percent per student and more dollars in districts with large concentrations of high - needs students.
Now, more than 1,000 homeless children in the Springfield schools will get free winter coats.
They will also help to clarify the unique needs of the rising homeless student population, which includes more than 1.3 million children throughout the country.
He says not only does more money need to be invested into children, but the state has to realize that it takes more money to educate certain groups, the poor and homeless, refugee and immigrant children and special education kids.
At the same time, McDowell's case has also brought up an argument that this is another «predictable» outcry among school choice supporters — who can rally around another case of a poor mother looking to improve education for their kids — who gloss over the more - complex problem of providing education for children of the homeless.
More than 50,000 public schools across the country use Title X funds to provide transportation services, educational services for which the child or youth meets the eligibility criteria, programs in vocational and technical education, school nutrition programs, and to prepare teachers to deal with the unique challenges the homeless student must confront to attain academic achievement.
More kids than ever are donating time to the shelter and FOTAS has received a wave of donations from children who want to do something special for the homeless animals at 333 Wire Road.
Our member charities educate children, feed and shelter the homeless, strengthen families, rescue unwanted animals and much more.
The Sulzbacher Center houses more than 330 homeless individuals, many of whom have children and pets.
Does your child love animals and want to learn more about our work with homeless animals?
ADW in Taos now provides weekly therapeutic groups to children and families at the local domestic violence shelter; military veterans; teens with disabilities as an AmeriCorps community service program; at - risk youth at an alternative middle school; and homeless youth at the local youth crisis shelter, and more.