Sentences with phrase «needs of vulnerable families»

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The law would provide justice to some of the most vulnerable people in our nation: young people who do not have homes and do not have the strong family support needed to keep them free from people who would exploit them.

He hadn't responded to Brown's vulnerable statements because he actually hadn't heard them — he was lost in thought, lost in counting strokes to escape those thoughts of failing his family when they needed him to be a superhero.

The family is a good thing in itself, but a vulnerable thing that needs to have a life apart from the state, and forms a great part of the institutions needed to resist its always expanding desire to control and direct more and more of society.

Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»

I'm sorry, I meant to also note how many of these people are trying to raise large / good sized families; thus making them very vulnerable to poverty and the need for the pitiful «safety net» that Romney appears to feel is a wonderful place to be, so wonderful that he plans to «fix» it «if needed» Yeah, he plans to fix it alright, the way you fix a cat to keep her from reproducing!!

Hands - on exploratory «field trips» including labyrinth visit, horse grooming and riding, low and high ropes course, Ashtanga yoga and a Doula Blessing (similar to a Mother Blessing), ALL designed with the purpose of teaching you the vital and mysterious skills doulas need to support families in intimate and vulnerable settings, as well as stretch you in your own personal growth, which is hands - down the most important tool in a doulas tool bag

«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.»

So there is evidence that some services are not meeting needs because of gendered and racial assumptions and that these are disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups, such as young families and minority ethnic groups.

Our policies will be aimed at the least well off and will address the need to support vulnerable families, provide proper education, tackle the epidemic of debt, fight crime and drug abuse and give people a decent environment to live in.

Erie County currently has a need for supportive foster families to provide temporary stable, nurturing homes for hundreds of vulnerable children.

It needs to not only help those who are homeless but also prevent those vulnerable families and individuals who are at risk of becoming homeless from joining them,» Clive Betts MP, chair of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee, said.

Louis Tehan, Executive Director of Upstate Cerebral Palsy, said: «The Oneida County College Corps Program is one way that we can help attract and retain young people as well as address the need for a highly dedicated workforce to deliver crucial and pivotal help in shaping the lives of vulnerable children, youth and families.

Recognizing the need to protect our most vulnerable residents, the Legislature voted to add positions in the Department of Social Services, where these individuals will work closely with at - risk families to help protect children from abuse.

Yonkers County Legislator Ken Jenkins has failed to comprehend that the Yonkers Family Court need to evolve from a revolving - door institution that solely metes out the law, to a progressive institution devoted to social change and delivery of needed services to the vulnerable women and children of our district.

«By distributing these Pack «n Plays to families that need them, we are making sure that more of our littlest and most vulnerable New Yorkers are tucked in safely.»

But to find out about the risk stemming from your father's side of the family, you need to look primarily at the women; while men do get breast cancer, women are more vulnerable to it.

A package to support embedding the reforms made to the system of support for children with special educational needs has been announced by Minister for Vulnerable Children and Families, Edward Timpson.

By embedding MITM within a comprehensive community schools strategy, the needs of vulnerable children and families are better addressed as educators and families improve their capacity to intentionally promote life skills starting in the earliest years of children's lives.

They focus especially on relying on the wisdom and assets of the most vulnerable students and families while providing opportunities, services, and supports at the time they are needed.

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.

I also heard from many people that the district could do much more to meet the needs of its most vulnerable students and families.

From our perspective, decisions such as the one at issue here miss the fact that public education is evolving and should be driven by a commitment to meet the needs of students and families and not by deference to a bureaucratic structure that often seems better for the adults in the system than for the most vulnerable children.

Localities that do not currently have a community schools should consider designing initiatives that address the needs of vulnerable youth and their families, and LGBTQ youth in particular.

One - size - fits - all tests punish and discourage students who are already vulnerable, including students of color, English - Language Learners, children with special needs, and students from families living in poverty.

When they are motherless and so young, they're vulnerable and need constant care and attention — the kind of nurturing they can only get from a devoted foster family.

(vi) while every group experiences civil needs, the poorest and most vulnerable experience more frequent and more complex, interrelated civil legal problems: Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Matters, Family Justice Reform - A Review of Reports and Initiatives: Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, online http://www.cfcj-fcjc.org/sites/default/files/docs/2013/Family%20Justice%20Reform%20Review%20-%20April%2015%20Final.pdf.

While a response is awaited from the Family Procedure Rules Committee on a variety of recommendations on how the family courts might improve the lot of vulnerable witnesses and children, judges have been gradually improving the law to recognise the rights and needs of victims of abuse and child witnFamily Procedure Rules Committee on a variety of recommendations on how the family courts might improve the lot of vulnerable witnesses and children, judges have been gradually improving the law to recognise the rights and needs of victims of abuse and child witnfamily courts might improve the lot of vulnerable witnesses and children, judges have been gradually improving the law to recognise the rights and needs of victims of abuse and child witnesses.

However, the Law Society's recent successful judicial review of the Legal Service Commission's (LSC) family law bid tender process (which heralded an overnight reduction from approximately 2,400 to 1,200 family law aid legal firms) shows that this needs to be managed without the risk of decimating provision of legal aid services to the most vulnerable in society.

In recent years, Ms. Dillon has been focusing on issues that will advance awareness and understanding of the conditions faced by Montana's vulnerable children and families, all the time emphasizing the need for evidence - based decision making and the importance of using and understanding data.

I have seen from the inside the important work that Anglicare does with the vulnerable children, young adults and young families in our society — many of whom need someone to stand up for their rights.

Young children are particularly vulnerable and sometimes families need extra help learning how to effectively parent and understand what some of the young child's behaviors, such as tantruming, excessive crying, and aggressive behavior mean and how to best address the young child's needs.

Bright Futures, the AAP health promotion initiative, provides resources for pediatricians to detect both ACEs and adverse developmental outcomes.36 Programs like Reach Out and Read, in which pediatricians distribute books and model reading, simultaneously promote emergent literacy and parent — child relationships through shared reading.37, 38 However, ACEs can not be addressed in isolation and require collaborative efforts with partners in the education, home visitation, and other social service sectors in synergistic efforts to strengthen families.29 In this way, programs like Help Me Grow39 that create streamlined access to early childhood services for at - risk children can play a critical role in building an integrated system that connects families to needed resources to enhance the development of vulnerable children.

The results provide tentative evidence to suggest that intensive home visiting by UK - based health visitors during the perinatal period can improve parenting and increase the identification of infants in need of early removal from the home in vulnerable families.

We who fight on the front lines on a daily basis, working with the emotionally vulnerable who feel as though the rug has been pulled out from under them know that the last thing a family in trouble needs is the «assistance» of counsel who could be throwing gasoline on the fire in order to line their own pockets.

A # 215 million funding boost to transform the lives of thousands of children with special educational needs and disabilities, by increasing school capacity and making it easier for them to access good school places, has today (4 March 2017) been announced by Edward Timpson, Minister for Vulnerable Children and Families.

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.

Lastly, centres and staff in areas servicing our most vulnerable children and families require enhanced skills and knowledge to deliver the quality of service these communities need.

«At Planned Parenthood, we believe health care is a right, not a privilege, and we are outraged that Peter King and his anti-women's health colleagues in the House of Representatives have not only demonstrated their total lack of regard and respect for American women and their families, but have also ensured that the most vulnerable and at - risk people in our community will no longer have access to the health care they both need and deserve.

This new investment, shared across eight of our Local Services, will ensure that vulnerable children and their families will receive the additional support they need to help navigate the very difficult process of divorce and separation.

There are references to various systemic therapies, including in the Costing report: In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it».

These NICE Pathways have been published at http://pathways.nice.org.uk There are references to various systemic therapies, including in the Costing report: In the category of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, there are references to family - based interventions and «intensive interventions (such as family therapy) for those who need it».

Building Comprehensive State Systems for Vulnerable Babies: A Resource for State Leaders (PDF - 249 KB) CLASP (2011) Helps State leaders strategize how to create or improve early childhood systems to meet the needs of vulnerable babies and toddlers, their families, and pregnVulnerable Babies: A Resource for State Leaders (PDF - 249 KB) CLASP (2011) Helps State leaders strategize how to create or improve early childhood systems to meet the needs of vulnerable babies and toddlers, their families, and pregnvulnerable babies and toddlers, their families, and pregnant women.

Whenever your spouse / partner consumes most of your focus / energy (this frequently occurs during the infatuation stage of early love), you have little left over for your friends, family, interests, hobbies, work / career, etc; and inversely, when couples are too disconnected, you become vulnerable to outside influences and the danger of getting your intimacy needs met outside the relationship is heightened.

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, Childfamilies 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, ChildFamilies 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, ChildFamilies 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, Childfamilies, 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).

Washington state has increasingly prioritized home visiting programs to meet the needs of our most vulnerable children and families.

NACAC strongly recommends that child welfare policy makers look to birth, foster, and adoptive families to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth.

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.

It is part of his job, actually, but this view is representative of most family court judges: Whether through a chivalric view of women as vulnerable creatures in need of their protection, or cowed by feminists into believing their mantra that men only want to «control» them, judges reflexively privilege mothers as the natural owners of children, and fathers as accessories to their lives.

The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.

It delivers a broad range of services to meet the needs of vulnerable children, young people and families who fall below the threshold for statutory child protection intervention.