Sentences with phrase «of shelter services»

Donations run programs and services including Cruelty Investigation, Disaster Animal Response Team, Humane Education and a variety of shelter services.
Natalie comes to the BCSPCA from the Humane Society of the United States, where she was the Director of Shelter Services.
«Shelters never want to say no, but donations can be difficult to manage,» says Kimberley Intino, a certified animal welfare administrator and the director of shelter services for the Humane Society of the United States.
Community Outreach: Help FAMD to raise awareness of shelter services and companion animal issues by manning a booth at local events, or giving presentations for local school and community groups.
Veterinarians, technicians, and shelter managers are invited to participate in our programs to advance their knowledge, and take advantage of the shelter services that we offer.
Needless to say, it has been a tumultuous few days since the announcement of the cessation of our sheltering services at the Cumberland County SPCA the end of the year.

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For a number of years, I had been on the board of Project Hope, which operates a shelter and provides services for homeless women and children in Boston.
A spokesman for Miami International Airport said the airport will not close but noted that it is not a shelter so an influx of stranded people could stretch basic services.
I don't think that in this age of tech we need to continue sheltering large Canadian companies who are unwilling to change their business model to compete with th emore flexible and customer choice oriented services that are being mamde available.
Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC) opened its doors in 1979 as an emergency shelter, a place for vulnerable adults living with behavioral health disorders and chronic homelessness to come in out of the cold for the night.
About 75 % of the tax money would go towards funding more affordable housing and the rest towards emergency and shelter services for the homeless.
Royal LePage Burloak Real Estate Services sales rep Paolo Zulian recently completed a million - mile rowing challenge in support of the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation.
Damages include flooded homes, lack of drinking water and electrical services, massive destruction of plantations and crops, risks associated with mosquito - borne and water - borne diseases, collapsed structures, public safety issues, and millions of evacuees in shelters.
As part of their efforts to assist animals impacted by Hurricane Irma, the ASPCA is providing Miami - Dade Animal Services with sheltering assistance and helped facilitate the transport of hundreds of displaced homeless animals from Miami area shelters to the West Coast.
So we ignore the thousands of soup kitchens, shelters, clothing drives, emergency rent assistance, and various other services that charities associated with the Catholic Church provides simply because you personally have not benefited?
They are beginning to offer services above and beyond shelter: training in household management, daily monitoring of lifestyle habits like drug use, directed job - searches, organized support groups and pep - sessions and sanctions on miscreant behavior.
The use of food and shelter as «bait» to get the alcoholic into the service enhances his negativism and resentment of religious institutions, making it more difficult to reach him with religious help.
On the federal level, while the wages of ordinary workers find no shelter from the Internal Revenue Service, exemptions and special preferences for landowners whittle down their taxes or turn real estate losses into profits.
She once gave shelter to Trotsky (and is said to have argued him into the ground over the nature of social oppression), was a soldier at the front in the Spanish Civil War, sought dangerous service in World War II and served with the Free French in London.
Welfare indirectly allows many in this country to buy I - phones, flat screen TVs and cars that are nicer than those owned by the middle class with their marginal income, by paying for all of life's necessities (food, clothing, shelter and medical services) that those in the middle class pay for out of pocket.
We try to help those who are waiting their turn to get into one of the shelters or programs that provide housing and services, and some who can not get into shelters or programs because they are unable or unwilling to follow the rules (which usually have to do with drug and alcohol usage and behavior).
Some churches are involved in community services, especially emergency - care services: crisis counseling centers, battered women's shelters and other housing for homeless women and young people — many of whom are running away from physical and sexual abuse.
The Church here is across the street from the service center and the shelter, I see lots of people in both the center and the shelter but have never yet seen any activity at the Church.
His parents made the long trip to America's northernmost town, searched in vain for his body, discovered the shelter that would have saved him, experienced the high of the four - hour funeral service and the low of leaving with wrenching questions left unanswered.
Occasionally, food service is halted because of rioting, and soldiers have been seen sleeping under the shelter of some of these makeshift eateries.
Paul has built a three - prong partnership between the DU Food Recovery Network (FRN) chapter, Sodexo; the national food service that provides meals in the university's cafeterias, and the Denver Rescue Mission, whose Lawrence Street Shelter provides food for 1700 individuals, three times every day of the year.
He is a director of health services at Covenant House Pennsylvania, a shelter for homeless and marginalized youth.
Shelter Inc. also screens thousands of first - time parents from the northwest suburbs and provides social services, referral assistance and parenting training based on the results of physical and emotional evaluations.
Supportive services strengthen families during times of crisis by offering food, shelter, healthcare, and homeless prevention assistance.
In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.
The residential treatment program provides intensive, temporary out - of - home care and therapeutic services for children and their families, as well as transitional shelter care for girls with a focus on sibling sets.
Lactivists are angry that the Internal Revenue Service has ruled that breastfeeding is not a form of medical care and therefore, breastfeeding supplies such as pumps can not be purchased with money from tax sheltered health accounts.
The lunch service project benefited The Franciscan House of Mary & Joseph, a shelter in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood.
Such civic - minded uses for the buildings hearken back to the first field houses, built in the early 1900s under the direction of parks Supt. Frank J. Foster.Foster was inspired by Chicago's first settlement house — large buildings where immigrants could go for shelter and social services — when he ordered the construction of the first 10 field houses, which opened in 1905, said Park District historian Julia Bachrach.
Grant Shapps, the housing minister, tried to put a positive spin on Shelter's findings, saying: «Shelter are absolutely right that most landlords provide decent accommodation, and I share their concern that a minority of landlords offer an unacceptable service to their tenants.
Some practical problems arising from the issues mentioned above in Iraq are: 1) the lack of security during and after displacement (between areas controlled by ISIS and the government controlled locations); and 2) the barriers to access basic services such as WASH, shelter, food, education, child protection and Gender Based Violence, among others.
City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria) criticized a bill passed by his fellow Council members and championed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that increases funding and the hours of operation for animal receiving centers but gets rid of a requirement for full - service shelters in Queens and the Bronx.
Come Home NYC will coordinate with the city's Department of Homeless Services to identify shelter families earning an average of $ 35,000 a year or more, help locate an affordable apartment for them and use the funds from the attorney general's office and $ 300,000 from the Robin Hood Foundation provide the landlord with a $ 3,000 deposit to off - set potential rent shortfalls.
With the number of homeless people in New York City reaching an all - time high, de Blasio unveiled a five - year plan in February to reduce homelessness and provide better services by opening 90 new shelters and expanding 30 existing ones, but the process of locating them has become contentious.
The Home Office runs a Violence Against Women fund worth # 80m over five years, a paltry sum given the needs of the sector and the wholesale slashing of budgets for women's services such as domestic violence shelters.
State Sen. Phil Boyle (R - Suffolk County), who sponsored the bill, said the number of licensed pet dealers in New York has declined by nearly 40 % over the past five years while many new not - for - profit shelter and rescue organizations have sprung up offering similar services.
LCG Community Services collects about $ 4,500 a month from the Department of Homeless Services for each adult family it hosts in its small single rooms at Klara's Family Residence, a raccoon - plagued shelter in Sheepshead Bay.»
«We are fortunate that the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center, one of our community's premier human services agencies, also realized the need and began work on this Services Center, one of our community's premier human services agencies, also realized the need and began work on this services agencies, also realized the need and began work on this shelter.
New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
Mr. Banks said combining HRA and DHS would mean streamlined services to get people off the street and into shelter, out of shelter and into permanent housing and to prevent people struggling to hold onto their apartments from winding up homeless.
At 12:30 p.m., IDC Leader Jeff Klein, Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, NYC Councilman Jimmy Vacca and others hold a press conference to call on the NYC Department of Homeless Services to ban level two and three sex offenders from temporary emergency housing and homeless shelters used to house families with children, across from the Crystal Family Residence, 555 Hutchinson River Parkway, the Bronx.
The fifty - bed shelter for women with children will put a roof over the heads of needy families, provide wrap - around services designed to reduce trauma on the children, and work to quickly return the family to permanent housing.
WHITE PLAINS, NY - In recognition of the county's successful efforts in addressing homelessness, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today announced that the Department of Social Services (DSS) has been awardeda $ 2.1 million federal grant to continue its efforts to get people out of shelters and into permanent housing.
Frank Commisso, Jr., an Albany common councilman who is running for mayor this year, has pledged to spearhead his own «audit of the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly,» adding in a blog post that «the many private and profitable companies being sheltered under the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly [must] finally pay their fair share toward the cost of city services
to spearhead his own «audit of the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly,» adding in a blog post that «the many private and profitable companies being sheltered under the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly [must] finally pay their fair share toward the cost of city services
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