Sentences with phrase «of supportive adults»

With these cautions considered, results at posttest indicate that The CORE model utilized by the Family Alternatives foster agency yielded promising results at helping older youth in foster care to develop relationship - building skills, to identify a broad range of supportive adults, and most importantly, to nurture a relationship with an adult who will support them through their transition.

For youth in out - of - home care due to protection needs, ensure a timely and permanent exit from the formal service system through the development of a resilient and comprehensive network of supportive adults.

In order for children to build resilience they need to be exposed to life's inevitable ups and downs in the context of supportive adults, to allow children to learn practical skills for managing change.

By being shown how to work through problems with the help of supportive adults, preschoolers are more able to scaffold their own learning.

By being shown how to work through problems with the help of supportive adults, preschoolers are able to be in control of their learning.

The APAS system, which is based on this resiliency framework, highlights the importance of supportive adult relationships in the healthy development of youth — something we should keep in mind as we begin a new year of academic and out - of - school - time programming.

Not exact matches

While most youth who grew up in supportive family homes can rely on help with affordable housing and advice and guidance from caring adults, these supports are missing from the lives of most youth aging out of care.

I have not missed a single episode of Sister Wives and have found the family to be loving, considerate, supportive, and respectful of each other, and all of the adults appear intelligent, articulate and forthright.

The survey, which polled 1,000 working adults, revealed that 26 percent had taken a sick day due to a mental health problem; more than half (58 percent) revealed they weren't comfortable telling their boss if they were diagnosed with a mental health problem, and only 20 percent believed that their employer would be supportive of their employees battling a mental health issue.

There are many adults who were physically punished as children and are supportive of physically punishing their children, reasoning that they «survived.»

Foster fathers — who have largely been ignored by service providers and researchers — may be of particular importance, given that many of the children in their care will not have enjoyed supportive and loving relationships with adult males, and may have been abused by them (Wilson et al, 2007).

That we can develop a supportive and compassionate vocabulary to talk miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS, and all other kids of pregnancy loss and early infant loss — not to mention the death of an older or adult child as well.

While the circumstances that lead to a blended family life may differ, the one constant is that an adult makes a commitment to assume a supportive or parental role to the children of their romantic partner.

New Building is One of the First Projects to Use State Medicaid Redesign Team Funding HCR Commissioner / CEO Darryl C. Towns was joined by Acting Commissioner of the New York State Division on Human Rights / Former New York City Council Member Helen Foster and other city and state partners to celebrate the groundbreaking of Boston Road, a new 154 - unit permanent supportive residence for older adults.

A shortage of supportive housing has helped drive homelessness for single adults to record highs, the Coalition for the Homeless says in a new report.

SAGE Center Bronx offers LGBT older adults in the Bronx a comprehensive set of direct and supportive services.

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older adults and their caregivers, advocates for public policy changes that address the needs of LGBT older people, and provides training for aging providers and LGBT organizations through its National Resource Center on LGBT Aging.

Another problem Taylor cited is a waiting list for beds at «safe havens,» a kind of supportive housing that many adult homeless people favor — they don't have the kinds of curfews or mandates for drug or alcohol rehabilitation that some shelters require.

«Our daily lifestyle physical activities are supportive of brain health, and adults of all ages should continue to try and increase lifestyle physical activity to gain these benefits,» Halloway said.

Adolescents girls with sexual abuse - related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experienced greater benefit from prolonged exposure therapy (a type of therapy that has been shown effectiveness for adults) than from supportive counseling, according to a study appearing in the December 25 issue of JAMA.

My mother is patient (know that we are adults of course, lol) supportive, always available whenever someone needs her, even to her coworkers who call her on her day off!

In a sign of changing times, the nation's largest organization of pediatric doctors is issuing recommendations for teens thinking about getting a tattoo Inclusive, comprehensive, supportive sexuality and relationships info for teens and emerging adults.

«The Internet holds great promise for helping adults form healthy and supportive romantic partnerships, and those relationships are one of the best predictors of emotional and physical health.»

«The internet holds great promise for helping adults form healthy and supportive romantic partnerships, and those relationships are one of the best predictors of emotional and physical health,» he says.

With the right kind of targeted support, adults can fight the effects of adversity, become effective workers and supportive parents — and perhaps even break the intergenerational cycle of poverty.

«The parent participants reported reassurance through the availability of an understanding and supportive adult who responded to their children's specific needs at school,» the report says.

Put them into the right educational environment, surround them with supportive adults, and (if you're of the broader / bolder persuasion) provide them with all kinds of social supports too, and we'll see our elite college campuses — gateways to the new Upper Class — democratize before our eyes.

These capabilities are often referred to as «life skills» as they enable adults across the socioeconomic spectrum to care for themselves and their children, manage households, seek and maintain employment or other economic activities, achieve financial self - sufficiency and social stability, and participate as contributing members of a mutually supportive and sustainable community.

In order to achieve breakthroughs for children, we must help adult caregivers build a set of essential core capabilities that are needed to provide supportive and stable environments.

If there is a lesson for other districts, it is that for students to successfully shed the stigma of dropping out, they'll need a supportive community of both peers and adults within the school system.

Supportive adults can help teens develop a sense of how high school can connect to their personal goals and futures.

Based on decades of research in child and adolescent development, neuroscience, education, and psychology, we know that relationships with teachers, parents, and other supportive adults determine how school - age children acquire their personal guidance systems, full of interconnected abilities and pathways to success.

The great majority of students in U.S. schools want their classrooms, lunchrooms, hallways, and athletic fields to be safer, and their peers and the adults in the building to be more caring, supportive, and accepting.

«I think that's really important for kids to know that they have a supportive group of peers — and an adult — that will listen,» says Davis.

Develop ways to systematically recognize positive, supportive behaviors of students toward each other and adults.

The report, entitled «Foundatons for Young Adult Success: A Developmental Framework», then goes to stress what is important: «experiences combining action and reflection (to) help children develop a set of critical skills, attitudes, and behaviors» and «supportive relationships and an abundance of these developmental experiences through activities inside and outside of school.»

For heutagogy to be cultivated in adult learners, the learners need to build and manage successful personal learning networks and find a supportive personal learning environment (PLE), or systems that help them take control of and manage their own learning.

And, as the educator Thomas Toch has noted, the disadvantaged are most in need of school as a physical place, providing structure and supportive adults, and will likely suffer from a movement to virtual education.

Creating a calm, safe, supportive, and faith - filled learning environment where students are engaged and respectful of each other and of adults in the building

Most voters want government to spend more money of the care and education of young children, for the good of families and everything that flows from stable homes and supportive environments for children and adults.

Most voters want government to do something about that, for the good of families and everything that flows from stable homes and supportive environments for children and adults.

School Culture is the sum total of the behaviors and interactions of all adults and children, their attitude and norms, and the extent to which the school is safe, supportive, healthy, engaging, inspiring, and challenging for all.

Salem is looking forward to the next phase of Our Salem, Our Kids, which enlists help from the community to create strong, supportive relationships between youth and adults.

Young Adult Borough Centers: YABCs are supportive learning environments designed for students who have been in high school for at least four years and have attained a minimum of 17 credits.

Occurring in the midst of instruction, formative assessment is a dynamic process in which supportive adults or classmates help learners move from what they already know to what they are able to do next, using their zone of proximal development.

The teachers don't necessarily teach or talk to the students; they just provide an opportunity for the students to sit in the presence of a caring, supportive adult for an extended period of time to complete schoolwork.

Kathlyn Paananen, Housing and Education Manager for Seattle Public Schools, speaks to the significance of caring adults in a student's life as having a proven positive impact on student success, «Best practices to address attendance include having a supportive community that positively reinforce regular school attendance!»

The agreements and the step - by - step community building process of Tribes assure that every student has inclusion (belonging to a small peer group), a sense of identity and value, and a community of supportive peers and adults.

HCZ's overarching goal is to create a «tipping point» in the neighborhood so that children are surrounded by an enriching environment of college - oriented peers and supportive adults.

Being surrounded by a supportive community in the form of nurturing relationships from peers and adults is predictive of motivation and engagement in the learning process (Akey, 2006; Cohen & Ball, 1999).