Sentences with phrase «most vulnerable parents»

I work with some of the world's most vulnerable parents to make a difference to the lives of children.

«Alongside the material and financial support we will deliver, it is important that parents get advice when they need it — and we'll recruit 500 new health visitors by 2018 to better - support Scotland's families and further extend the family nurse partnership, which supports some of our youngest and most vulnerable parents.»

Not exact matches

In the academic sphere, we have not always managed parents» expectations perfectly, and because we are young plant, any falling short makes us vulnerable; but some batches of results, especially in English and in languages, have been better than most schools back home.

«We're committed to supporting parents with the cost of bringing up children, we've doubled free childcare, Child Benefit is available for all children in a household, and we continue to spend around # 90 billion a year to ensure a strong safety net for the most vulnerable.»

A holy moment where they, as your child, are being the most vulnerable with you, where they are holding their heart and soul in their palms, and asking you to be their loving parent.

Young fathers (aged 16 - 24) are some of the most invisible, marginalised and vulnerable parents in the UK.

Parenting is serious business, and because we love our children, parenting becomes a very emotional experience which triggers our deepest and most vulnerable Parenting is serious business, and because we love our children, parenting becomes a very emotional experience which triggers our deepest and most vulnerable parenting becomes a very emotional experience which triggers our deepest and most vulnerable emotions.

The decision not to wear your baby is one of the most visible parenting decisions you can make, and that makes you vulnerable to criticism.

By encouraging those who still advocate corporal punishment to see the facts behind reasons parents today think corporal punishment works and breaking down those reasons to see why those reasons don't stand up to facts and examination, we can protect the most vulnerable members of society: children, who should be taught how to behave correctly on their own and develop the skills to regulate their own behavior so that they don't need to be constantly disciplined and who should not be physically hurt so that they obey at that particular moment, without learning how to regulate themselves in the future.

The trust and friendship you build with other parents can be some of the most vulnerable and rewarding friendships in your lives.

The Food Bank's «Baby Supply Cupboard» targets one of the most vulnerable populations — infants and toddlers whose parents lack the resources to adequately provide for them.

How about lactation consultants, natural parenting authors, manufacturers of breastfeeding products, activists, etc that prey on the fears of new mothers at their most vulnerable?

We exposed our most vulnerable sides to each other, and by doing so, fought less and started to enjoy being parents together more.

And we expect parents to have access to information so that they can make informed choices about how they feed the most vulnerable and precious people in our society, babies and young children.

It seems so obvious to me that a baby needs to be near their mother / parents when they are in their most vulnerable state.

But for others, «it closes within the first months or years of life before most parents even knew that their baby's mental development was even vulnerable.»

The strengths oriented training addresses the developmental process of any child, including those most vulnerable, parenting education topics and encourages cultural competence of home visitors.

Yet our culture sets these unreal expectations up and berates new parents for not meeting them, all when they are at their most vulnerable.

I worked for five of the most wonderful, challenging, eye opening years on the High Dependancy Neonatal Cardiac Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital where I would care for the most delicate of babies, most sick babies, most vulnerable babies and their parents and families.

With all the concerns of plastics and infants being the most vulnerable, I felt there was a need for more options for parents who wanted to use glass.

The parent tray is the most vulnerable in this case as it sticks outside when the stroller is kept in a folded position.

Eligibility has been defined to focus on the most vulnerable families: first - time pregnant women, and first time parents with a child less than 6 months of age.

Financially punishing parents will, in all likelihood, hit the most vulnerable people and those families closest to the poverty line.

What is most disturbing is that this hits some of the most vulnerable the hardest, including people with disabilities or mental health conditions, those from BME communities, and single parents.

Despite months of protest, tens of thousands of letters and e-mails and passionate testimony by parents and educators, the New York State Board of Regents voted on Nov. 16 to implement a series of «cost containment» proposals that affect some of the most vulnerable students.

«This is further evidence that New York City is committed to caring for the most vulnerable, including in situations where parents might not recognize that their babies are highly vulnerable.

A young Pima was most susceptible if both parents had contracted diabetes before age 45, less vulnerable if only one parent was diabetic, and least likely to become sick if both parents were healthy.

Aside from the vulnerable performance of voice actor Charlie Tahan, the commendably encouraging parents (played by Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short), and the adorably awkward next - door neighbor Elsa (Winona Ryder), the most striking character is that of Sparky himself.

Because the current system, with all of its flaws, ensures that many of America's most vulnerable children are given access to special services and, whenever possible, significant exposure to a regular educational environment, parents and advocates oppose reforms because they fear losing the opportunities that children now have.

AB 2548 would have helped guarantee that our state's new system of accountability will provide parents, educators and community groups with the information they need to help increase equity and close achievement gaps that deprive the state's most vulnerable students of a level playing field.

They include a «Later to Literacy» program that supports the literacy needs of ESL students; the «Village of Attachment,» where staff, families, and community members create a web of support around the most vulnerable students; «Youth in Transitions,» an after - school program that works closely with students alongside their parents; and «PAWS,» a program designed to help immigrant students who entered the school system late in their high school years develop fundamental skills for success.

Parents can also help their children manage their feelings, consider new perspectives and stand up for those who are most vulnerable.

Not the educators; not the suburban parents who are complaining about the «out - of - control testing regime»; but those students, mainly poor and minority, who are the most vulnerable, many of whom will be «tracked» into less rigorous vocational curriculum pathways in ways that benefit school district graduation rates and ratings and the educator bonuses that follow.

And one way we are doing that is by empowering and engaging parents of our most vulnerable students, as well as working with local leaders and civil rights groups, in the fight to improve their child's elementary and secondary education and helping them to hold school systems accountable when it comes to their children's future.

We hope to work with parents from ANY school in all neighborhoods, as well as community members, who want to make a difference for the city's most vulnerable students.

The study released today found that D.C. OSP parents overwhelmingly support this program, and that, at the same time, these schools need to improve upon how they serve some of D.C.'s most vulnerable students.

For the last several years, NHTSA has joined with Safe Kids to sponsor a national effort to educate parents and caregivers about this little - known risk to the most vulnerable segment of our population.

Understanding Today's Changing Families - When their children are born, most unmarried parents have high expectations for the future, but they are particularly vulnerable to financial and relationship instability.

When their children are born, most unmarried parents have high expectations for the future, but they are particularly vulnerable to financial and relationship instability.

The Bill intends to make it easier for parents to share caring responsibilities; give families of children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities more choice and control; and support some of the most vulnerable children, including those in care or whose parents have separated.

Racial stigmatisation of Aboriginal parents will not reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal children in the youth justice or child protection system but further disadvantage the most vulnerable in our community.

As does Australia's Welfare 2013, the Productivity Commission paper identifies lone parents and their children, Indigenous Australians, people with a long - term health condition or disability, and people with low educational attainment as most vulnerable to long - term disadvantage.

The most effective approaches to help vulnerable youth include alternative and community based schools, classroom and school environments that meet student needs and have social skills curriculum, and engaged parents in the school (Dryfoos & Barkin, 2006).

Childnet continually seeks to help the most vulnerable in society, recently launching resources for young people with autism spectrum disorders, and for foster carers and adoptive parents.

Using a public health frame, we will examine how three evidence - based home visiting models form a continuum of interventions directly addressing this challenge: (1) Family Connects provides nearly universal assessment of needs for families of newborns, with connection to community services (Karen O'Donnell, Duke University); (2) Healthy Families America focuses on prevention through facilitating nurturing relationships and connection to services (Kathleen Strader, Healthy Families America); and (3) Child First targets the most vulnerable young children and families, who have experienced high levels of trauma and adversity, through a team approach providing comprehensive care coordination and mental health intervention for both parent and child (Darcy Lowell, Child First).

The decision by state child support enforcement units of whether or not to pursue child support payments from adoptive families has caused much distress on the part of parents who adopt our country's most vulnerable children.

Its purpose is to give adoptive parents and teachers an insight into how early relational trauma affects brain development, why school can be challenging for adopted children, and how we can help to improve the experience for all children by paying attention to the needs of the most vulnerable.

Eligibility has been defined to focus on the most vulnerable families: first - time pregnant women, and first time parents with a child less than 6 months of age.

Child health professionals and their professional associations can advocate for policy action on the social determinants that support parents» capacity and ability to care for children.46 We need child health professionals to advocate for more equitable welfare reforms, with the test that they must protect children as the most vulnerable members of our society.2 This will include labour market, tax and transfer polices that aim to lift all families with children out of poverty.

She emphasized the significance not only for the Ballymun community but for wider society, «especially as, once again, we are confronted with how poorly we have treated children and parents in the past, particularly the most vulnerable, and we are being challenged to learn the necessary lessons so that we don't continue to repeat the past.»