Sentences with phrase «of child advocates»

He is a board member of the Child Advocates of Southwest Connecticut, a group devoted to assisting neglected children.

We are grateful to be a part of the KIDS COUNT network, a collective of child advocates around the US working to ensure that ALL children in our country have the resources and support they need to succeed.

Many attachment researchers find themselves playing the part of child advocates, they admit.

The commission, formed in 1990 by a group of child advocates, was created to make recommendations on how the Congress can improve the compensatory - education program...

He then made good on that pledge, according to CapCon's Jimmy Vielkind, joining the Republicans in rejecting Parker's bill to create the office of Child Advocate.

Coordinated with Central Office Ombudsman Staff and Office of Child Advocate.

The skills section of this child advocate resume sample is also quite good.

Protecting Our Children: Improving Protections for Children When Allegations Are Made That School System Personnel Abused and / or Neglected Children (PDF - 5119 KB) State of Connecticut Attorney General & Office of the Child Advocate (2010) Explores systems aimed at protecting children in schools, including screening processes for school employees, mandated reporting laws, and the quality of investigations and responses of local school districts, the Department of Children and Families, and the Department of Education.

Elizabeth Burke Bryant, who is the executive director of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, a local advocacy group, told NBC 10 that DCYF and the Office of the Child Advocate need to work together to make wholesale changes.

Voices for Vermont's Children supports the creation of an Office of the Child Advocate in order to continue to monitor and improve outcomes for our children.

Dr. Dickstein serves on various advisory committees in Rhode Island on behalf of vulnerable infants, toddlers and families including Successful Start (Rhode Island's early childhood comprehensive systems initiative), the Governor's Early Learning Council, Rhode Island Association for Infant Mental Health (founding member and president), and the Office of the Child Advocate Advisory Committee.

Not exact matches

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

Hillary Clinton, as well as major companies like Nike, Etsy, and Netflix, advocate for paid time off for both parents, regardless of gender, after the birth or adoption of a child.

After a few minutes of browsing through Maye's Twitter feed, it's easy to spot what she is most passionate about: advocating for her children and her career.

Bede Sheppard of Human Rights Watch calls Malala a «radiant example that children can be intelligent and savvy advocates for their own rights.»

«We've been deeply committed to helping parents afford the costs of raising and caring for their children since the early days of the administration and will continue to advocate for relief for American families in the coming weeks.»

Some of high - ranking retired military brass are advocating for a radical way to bolster national security: Improve the fitness of children» Read More

Cendy is one of millions of immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children — a group known as «DREAMers» by advocates of the Dream Act, a federal bill first introduced in the Senate in 2001 to allow them a pathway to permanent residency.

It is so incredibly difficult for parents of young children to take the time to advocate for child care.

Child health advocates want Mark Zuckerberg to delete the app altogether, believing it to be detrimental to the development of young minds.

As a former city councilor, Selina advocated for the rights of taxpayers, fought to protect the health of children and families by introducing a local ban on cosmetic pesticides and worked to improve access for people with disabilities as chair of the Coquitlam Universal Access - Ability Advisory Committee.

Say no to spying on advocates for First Nations children, or in fact on any activists of any kind in Canada.

Collectively, this disparity fuels what has been called the «school - to - prison - pipeline,» a systemic bias that civil rights advocates say pushes children and young adults of color out of the classroom and into the criminal justice system.

«Abortion advocates have been left unchallenged for too long, hiding the reality of abortion and its tragic effects on both the pre-born child and the mother.

I think this letter was a bold first move in what promises to be a lifetime of advocating for her beloved child.

Advocates for victims saw the posts as a sign of favour for Law by church officials unrepentant about abused children.

Jolie is an enigma wrapped inside of a riddle: an outspoken advocate for United Nations and children's causes who nonetheless maintains a near - impenetrable wall of privacy around her personal life with partner Brad Pitt.

Of course, Ms. Crandall adds, «there was probably something disingenuous even at the time in abortion advocates» concern for children.»

Certainly the lives of women are as important as those of unborn children, but no one in America or abroad advocates the slaughter of thousands of women annually, while many do defend murder of the unborn.

• Disrupting the accustomed course of his many good ideas, my friend William F. Buckley has deep within him this libertarian child who occasionally gets out to advocate the legalization of drugs.

Care's Chief Executive Nola Leach said they will, despite the new announcement, «continue to advocate for women and unborn children in Northern Ireland and across the rest of the UK.»

Morality of the bible advocate slavery, killing children, taking virgins... the list goes on.

In the past, she has worked with Republicans on legislation that reformed the foster care system and encouraged more adoptions, issues I know matter to many pro-life evangelicals who advocate on behalf of adoption and open their homes to children.

Social - Gospel advocates in the early twentieth century and their mainline children continued to view Christianity's role in the project of American civil religion in terms of the social impact of its moral vision.

Empowerment of women and special attention to the child, abolishing practices like female infanticide and the misuse of technologies to determine fetal sex were advocated.

And of course there would be those on the right, advocating for Muslim prayer in schools, not worrying about how the few Christian children might be impacted, and doing whatever they can to write bits of Sharia into the law of the land.

What frustrates me about the pro-choice movement is the lengths to which advocates go to de-humanize unborn children and sanitize the abortion procedure, reducing life to nothing more than a cluster of cells and the implications of pregnancy to little more than a choice.

So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

Melinda Gates, a passionate advocate for improved maternal and infant care worldwide, puts it this way: «To help women and children fulfill their potential, we need to make sure they can receive the right kind of health care at every phase of their lives.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

A passionate animal rights advocate, he's already given huge portions of his fortune to PETA and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as well as Save the Children and his own vegan food relief organization, the Sam Simon Foundation.

@Tom Tom - The poster who used the phrase «the child of their dreams» was not among those who were advocating for adoption.

Barbara Pitkin writes that «Calvin himself appears not to have advocated the use of physical force in response to sin in children; though he recognized the need for parental discipline, his explicit remedies were baptism and education (albeit strict and structural) into faith and morality.»

She seeks to do this through promoting truth - seeking expeditions, advocating gender equality, educating the Church on abuse, and aiding the rescue of men, women and children from spiritual, emotional and physical poverty.

What is confusing about gerald's arguments and those of catholic engineer is that they're advocating precisely the same thing as what China has done with its one - child policy.

Pro-life advocates see themselves as acting on behalf of unborn children, who can not protect themselves.

1) Churches need to be a voice for economic justice for lower - income families by, for instance, advocating for more generous child and earned - income tax credits, as well as for the elimination of the marriage penalties embedded in many of our public policies directed towards lower - income families.

People who have read this book have: killed millions of people needless in the Crusades, tortured and killed hundreds of thousands in the Inquisition, conducted countless «witch» burnings in Europe and America, have advocated for beating children (Proverbs 13:24), have advocated for the subjugation of women (far too much to cite)...

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

Since Roe v Wade, pro-life advocates have argued that an unborn child is unarguably human, and therefore deserves of the same constitutional right as you and I enjoy — namely, the right to live.