Sentences with phrase «of children of all backgrounds»

Abrazo is private, nonprofit 501c3 organization so the agency is privately - funded, solely through tax - deductible contributions and fees paid for services by adopting parents who can not have children any other way and are carefully approved for open adoptions of children of all backgrounds.

Not exact matches

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

He'd been watching a baseball game on television the night before and noticed in the background a child walking down an aisle carrying a glass of beer.

Before anyone starts trolling me: I am wealthier / more privileged than most; aristocratic background; LOVE children but have none of my own; can easily afford First Class, but just as often choose to sit in PREMIUM ECONOMY (and a screaming infant is just as annoying in the back of the plane as it is up front!)

Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

But after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the Obama administration tried to add some people to the background check system, by requiring the Social Security Administration to submit records of some beneficiaries with severe mental illness.

As gay marriage «sank into the subtle background consciousness of a culture, its influence would be felt quietly but deeply among gay children.

It is difficult to imagine Mike Huckabee boasting of his indifference to the health and welfare of children, whatever their background.

Well he can expect to be compleatly immune from any questions about church child molestation, he will fade into the background free of responsibility and prosecution from such matters... well done catholics, i am sure jesus would be very proud

If the unity of society requires that children from all different backgrounds go to school together, then we must outlaw private schools and compel suburban children to go to the same schools inner - city children attend.

The mother of the child said her family had a Christian heritage but the judge said there was evidence to suggest the mother's parents had a Muslim background.

Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a state fostering agency must recognise the «desirability of continuity in a child's upbringing and to the child's ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background.&rChild, a state fostering agency must recognise the «desirability of continuity in a child's upbringing and to the child's ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background.&rchild's upbringing and to the child's ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background.&rchild's ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background.»

I think the reason why I asked the question of you is partly because of the fundamentalist background I came from which places value on women based upon their child rearing, homekeeping, and service roles, basically serving men.

Maybe there could also be an image of Jesus & Allah facing each other — both with machine guns, grenades on their robe belt, bombs going of in the background along with dead bloodied bodies of women, children and men all around their feet.

I hope you have some decent background and an understanding of the context from which you contend that the Prophet Peace and Blessings upon him is a child molester.

It is healthy, however, to have meaningful relationships with children not your own, old people who don't share any of your genome, and people of different ethnic backgrounds and income brackets.

It can be said that Mr. Rogers was an honorable, respectable man whom we should all admire for his truly caring passion for humanity and his unconditional love for children without a need to press his religious background as to remind us that only the religious are capable of good deeds.

And when I look at my children, I realize that in many respects they are tragically ignorant of their Jewish background.

«I am particularly pleased that our highest - performing schools, Hampden Gurney, has secured fantastic outcomes with a significant number of disadvantaged pupils in Year 6 - demonstrating once again that a child's success should never be limited by their background.»

Yet it is precisely the privilege of Dillard's background that she knew would clip her wings and force another life upon her: the country club and its obsessive cultivation of a suntan; years of dancing school and white cotton gloves; the fate of young ladies to take custody of unquestioned codes, to be «vigilantes of the trivial,» to accept their destiny («to marry Holden Caulfield's roommate, and buy a house in Point Breeze, and send our children to dancing school»)

He added: «Religious and non-religious people alike recognise that both children and society are best served when people from a range of different backgrounds are brought together to learn with and from one another, and that is exactly what the 50 per cent cap sought to achieve.»

But police dogs, water hoses, churches bombed, children killed, and all this against the background of ruthless segregation?

Their lauded sponsor - a-child program works in cooperation with local churches to provide holistic health and education to children of all religious backgrounds.

However, as the trafficking of children becomes more prevalent, aftercare workers are observing more bridges than chasms amongst trafficked girls from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Speaking during News Hour he said: «Last year we placed about 17 per cent of our children which were from different ethnic backgrounds.

These are the most vulnerable families and children we've specifically chosen to help after months of interviews and background checks — not just because they don't have ties to terror groups, but because they are vulnerable to exploitation.

Here is her background: — State Senator — Helped to build charter schools for at risk youths — Attorney for 30 years — Built her own business and acually MET a payroll — 5 children of her own and 23 foster children — Representative for 5 years — True fiscal conservative

However, for the protection of our sponsored children and to minimize the burden on our staff, we do have a process that takes several months for required background checks and for staff to make arrangements in the field.

«I am basically addressing a secular, agnostic congregation of people who are drawn to the church because they find themselves with children and suddenly begin to sense that they want to give the kids some kind of background.»

Find the men who are man enough to be a father to troubled children of multiple ethnicity and backgrounds.

What can the church do to upgrade the quality of foster homes and encourage responsible couples to accept the challenge of taking a child from a non-Christian background into their care?

Our research has found that 72 % of pastors say the church they serve is doing background checks for children's workers.

Launched in the Bay Area in 2006, Sprouts Cooking Club teaches children from all socioeconomic, physical and mental health backgrounds the importance of healthy, nutritional foods through hands - on cooking with REAL chefs using REAL ingredients in REAL restaurants.

When he was a child Earnhardt would conduct makeshift races with Matchbox cars in front of one of the clocks his famous father had won while the NASCAR radio broadcast played in the background.

And Witzmann was wrong, something did change: Florida teachers who pass background checks and drug screens after 132 hours of training can now defend themselves and our children against murderers.

Children of all backgrounds draw to him at the camp that carries his name, hanging off every word, staying late for autographs and pictures.

McKeever comes from a family of 10 children (she is the oldest), all with varied athletic backgrounds.

Our A2Camp staff are experienced, safety certified, fingerprinted & background checked to provide you the assurance that your child will be well taken care of.

In the U.S. more than 10 million children under the age of 16 play organized sports, coached or otherwise supervised by more than a million adults, many of them unscreened male volunteers — which is to say, men on whom background checks have never been done.

On page 1,967 of the 2,232 - page bill — immediately following a section about the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and the National Criminal History Background Check and Criminal History Review Program — there is an addendum to a 1939 labor law that specifically carves out an exemption for minor league baseball.

There were a few whites scattered throughout the stadium, but mostly it was blacks of all backgrounds, all shapes and sizes, men and women and children.

Sixty miles north of San Francisco near the historic town of Occidental, CYO Camp is a Catholic community where, for more than 65 years, children of all religious backgrounds learn the values of caring, honesty, fairness, respect, and responsibility, in a challenging and nurturing natural environment.

And even though the inevitable corruption (that type of money turns even the saints into black - marketers) eventually rot everything all through the nineties the attempt by BCCI (India's cricket governing body) to better market the game was very well balanced with grass - root level development and had helped to create an ecosystem where children from backgrounds that could never dream of playing even for their state team can now aspire to be an international cricketer.

Differences in values, family background, personalities and priorities come to the surface, and are intensified by the demands of caring for an infant and the issues involved in raising and shaping one's own child.

DCF is always seeking adoptive families to parent children from all backgrounds and of every age.

Guided by Jewish values, JCYS offers Infant & Toddler Care, Preschool, Day & Overnight Camp, Kindergarten Enrichment, Before & After School Programs, and Special Needs Programs to over 2,000 children of all religions and backgrounds each year.

Through our Infant & Toddler Care, Preschool, Before & After School Programs, and Horner Grove Summer Day Camp, JCYS serves families of all backgrounds and is here to provide your children with the quality care and education they deserve.

«We try to particularly encourage friendships and play dates with children who have a different background than we do: being raised by two moms, coming from a different country, being of a different race,» Messersmith says.

Parents of all faiths, backgrounds, and lifestyles, entrust their children to our caring and professional Early Childhood Education staff.

The school is for children aged four to eleven, and serves pupils from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and social backgrounds.