Sentences with phrase «of ethnic minority families»

The 50 % cap on religious selection in free schools has significantly boosted the access of ethnic minority families to their local schools.

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Rising prices for assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.

Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

While low - income, ethnic - minority families displayed less sensitivity overall to their children, positive father involvement and close mother - father relationships were especially beneficial in the case of maternal risk.

Exclusion of young fathers in some ethnic minority families may be reinforced by cultural practices when female family members play a particularly substantial role in providing support to the mother during pregnancy and birth (Pollock et al, 2005)

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.

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

Risk factors for prediabetes include having a large waist or being overweight; being of Black or South Asian origin; having a family history of the condition; and being over 40 years old, or over 25 if you're Black, Asian or from an ethnic minority group.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

Do you think that U.S. education policy should work on improving the science - math performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities, rather than the performance of all children?

Raising America's average scores on international comparisons is, therefore, not a matter of repairing a broken educational system that performs poorly overall, as many critiques suggest, but rather of improving the performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

Students in the latter group are more likely than their peers to have lower family incomes and education levels, be members of ethnic minorities, or come from immigrant families.

In addition to the Trump administration's direct policy actions, Trump's bigoted and offensive rhetoric has assaulted our racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, implying that millions of American families and children are less than full members of our society.

This initiative in the Seattle Public Schools focused on results for children of families living in poverty, and non-native English speaking and ethnic minority families.

The goals of Early College are to welcome students of racial and ethnic minorities, low - income families, first generation college attendees, and / or English language learners to higher education.

They've got to look at how all kids are doing at the school overall, but also how specific groups of students are doing — like students with disabilities, those from low - income families, non-native English speakers, and every major racial and ethnic minority.

Schools must still conduct an evaluation of the «content and effectiveness» of a parent and family engagement policy and still identify «barriers to greater participation by parents in activities authorized by this section (with particular attention to parents who are economically disadvantaged, are disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, or are of any racial or ethnic minority background).»

There are also concerns that charter advantages are rooted in new patterns of racial / ethnic segregation because white and minority families may choose schools with more children of the same race or ethnicity.

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In 2008, Fu was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to create a photographic pop - up book of the 25 ethnic minorities residing in Yunnan Province, China, from where the artist's family descends.

When poor children are more likely to get sick and die than children in wealthier neighborhoods just across town; when rural families are more likely to go without clean water; when ethnic and religious minorities, or people with disabilities, or people of different sexual orientations are discriminated against or can't access education and opportunity — that holds all of us back.

It is especially regrettable that barristers are effectively penalised for doing legally aided family work, rather than privately paying work, and that this is hitting women and black and minority ethnic advocates hardest of all.»

Hence, many studies have also shown that Asian ethnic minority families who practice something similar to authoritarian parenting (a parenting style which scored poorly to mediocre in the studies of white middle class families) apparently result in children who excel both academically and socially.

Parents» beliefs about the cause of parenting problems and relevance of parenting support: Understanding low participation of ethnic minority and low socioeconomic status families in the Netherlands

Effectiveness of the Incredible Years Parenting Program for families with socioeconomically disadvantaged and ethnic minority backgrounds [published online ahead of print May 18, 2015].

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.

«The impact of poverty and low socioeconomic status on the socioemotional functioning of African - American children and adolescents: mediating effects,» in Social and Emotional Adjustment and Family Relations in Ethnic Minority Families, eds R. D. Taylor and M. Wang (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum), 7 — 34.

Racial / ethnic minorities as well as those of lower socioeconomic status (SES) experience higher rates of family violence as well as higher rates of asthma37 than their white, higher - SES counterparts.38 - 40 Analyses were therefore adjusted for maternal race / ethnicity and maternal education level.

Chand Child and Family Social Work, 10 (2), 2005 View Abstract Considers research on family support services for ethnic minority families, including an overview of what is known about family support services for particular minority ethnic groups and the qualities sought in social workers by ethnic minority paFamily Social Work, 10 (2), 2005 View Abstract Considers research on family support services for ethnic minority families, including an overview of what is known about family support services for particular minority ethnic groups and the qualities sought in social workers by ethnic minority pafamily support services for ethnic minority families, including an overview of what is known about family support services for particular minority ethnic groups and the qualities sought in social workers by ethnic minority pafamily support services for particular minority ethnic groups and the qualities sought in social workers by ethnic minority parents.

I welcome clients of ethnic and racial minority ancestry, multi-racial adoptive families, as well as, descendants of Caucasian and European origin»

The report focuses on families who are particularly at risk of poverty; single parent families, families with disabled children and / or disabled parents, black and minority ethnic families, and those where grandparents are raising their grandchildren.Read more

The NSPCC's services concentrate on seven important issues and groups of children most at risk: those who experience neglect, physical abuse in high - risk families (those families with violent adults, alcohol and drug abuse and mental health issues, those who experience sexual abuse, children under the age of one, disabled children, children from certain minority ethnic communities and looked after children.

With regard to family relations, it may arise from time to time that what we expect and what is expect and what we do and what is perceived are different, but this sort of thing does arise within ethnic minority families commonly.

There is growing evidence of deficiencies in the quality of health care for children, including low rates of preventive services, 1 persistent disparities in health status, 2 and lack of a usual source of care among ethnic and racial minorities and children in low - income families.3

Examining findings from this review and other high - quality studies (some excluded as they focus on targeted prevention), we can conclude that parenting interventions appear to be effective for families with high and low levels of deprivation, with and without maternal depression, those from ethnic minorities and majorities and those with severe and moderate levels of conduct problems.

NACAC believes that community - based (i.e. churches, advocacy groups, and other organizations reflective of populations of color) minority and specialty foster care and adoption agencies offer excellent opportunities for recruiting families who reflect the racial and ethnic background of children in care.

[3,4] We are currently completing a systematic review of parenting programmes for minority ethnic families and have found no evidence that parenting programmes are less effective with parents from such groups than they are with those from majority ethnic groups.

Limitations of the study include the self - report nature of assessing the youths» drug use and family problems, as well as the questionable generalizability of the sample, which was low - income, urban, and consisted primarily of males from ethnic minorities.

His research centers on several main issues: (1) the implications of religion and spirituality for mental and physical health and mortality risk; (2) religious variations in family life, with particular attention to intimate relationships and childrearing; (3) the role of religious institutions, practices, and values among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States; (4) the influence of religious factors on political attitudes and policy preferences; and (5) public opinion surrounding issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the contemporary United States.

Data shows that families composed of racial or ethnic minorities in the U.S. are more than twice as likely to be living in poverty or low - income than their white non-Hispanic counterparts.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined parenting practices as mediators of change in child conduct problems in ethnic minority families participating in group - based Parent Management Training - Oregon Model (PMTO)[now called Parenting Through Change (PTC)-RSB-.

Several early family characteristics (whether one or both parents from a minority ethnic group, both parents» ages when their child was born, the number of children in the family, adverse family events such as illnesses and deaths) are not associated with later father - child relationships.

Limitations include no significant different in effect between interventions, generalizability of the findings to ethnic minority families and to families living in suburban and urban setting, and lack of reliable and valid measures.

Limitations include generalizability of the findings to clinical populations, ethnic minority families and to families living in suburban and urban setting, and reliance on self - reported measures.

Limitations include generalizability of the findings to ethnic minority families and to families living in suburban and urban setting, lack of reliable and valid measures, and lack of follow - up.

Limitations include no significant different in effect between PDFY and ISFP, generalizability of the findings to ethnic minority families and to families living in suburban and urban setting, and lack of reliable and valid measures.

The survey sample was unrepresentative in that manual class families were under represented and ethnic minority families over represented compared to norms for the City of Oxford and for England.