Sentences with phrase «of urban families»

The change that I am seeing, from my vantage point of my Wild Birds Unlimited retail store in north Arlington, is the migration of urban families to more suburban locations and lifestyles.
«I am humbled to have this opportunity to advocate and organize on behalf of the urban families, students, and staff of this nation,» said White.
Charter schools offer a tuition - free alternative for lots of urban families that might have once considered parochial schools.
Dr. Raul Vazquez of Urban Family Practice in Buffalo says the risks of exposure are especially high among young people in Buffalo's Black and Latino communities.
Featured in the Level 1 Clinical Training films and Therapy Sessions: LIVE, Shantel is the co-founder of Urban Family, a community - based organization that provides urban youth with the tools, resources, and support to become leaders, mentors, and role models in socially challenged environments.

Not exact matches

This feature is perfect for entrepreneurs who may frequently travel outside of urban centers, or for those who are looking to take short vacations with family, but can't completely disconnect from the office.
That's appealing to families who want enough space for two cars, a backyard and a chance to get out of an urban setting.
More than 40 percent of African - American families have student debt, generally taking on around $ 10,295, according to a 2013 study by the Urban Institute.
Urban Wood Goods is a woman - owned (certified WBE, WOSB), family - operated, high - quality mid-priced furniture manufacturer recognized for a creating some of the most beautiful reclaimed wood furniture products that are all made in the USA.
Each early - stage company selected for URBAN - X becomes a member of our family.
Sales of new single - family homes rose 0.8 percent in June 2017 to 610,000 as reported jointly by the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Mr. Carras is of the view that the swift pace of new condo construction in Toronto is simply making up for the decline in construction of single - family homes that is occurring in part because of government policies designed to restrict urban sprawl and promote downtown intensification.
«The Office of Single Family Housing will endorse new loans under current multi-year appropriation authority in order to support the health and stability of the U.S. mortgage market,» according to a post on the federal Housing and Urban Affairs» website.
Katie Kalvoda's interest was piqued when the 40 - year - old money manager for a group of ultra-wealthy families heard about a startup urban farm that grows produce in vertical greenhouses.
«Tested, and ready today, to earn back the confidence of families, of millennials, and moms and dads, of urban and rural Canadians, and of small business leaders, and seniors, who want government to be an empowering force for good,» he said.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allows borrowers to obtain down - payment funds from a family member or other approved donor, in the form of a gift.
If the suburb was the reverse side of the American family's plunge into the rush, complexity and work of urban life, it was there that people were met and received by the Christian church.
Perceiving a stark and growing contrast between respectable middle - class families and the «teeming broods» of new immigrants in the urban centers, progressive leaders turned to eugenic science to control what seemed the otherwise uncontrollable plight of the poor.
Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.
Though I have spent most of my life in the urban locations of Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area, I am now here, in the heart of the Rocky Mountain range, partly because Missoula seemed like a good place for us to start our family.
CNN: My Faith: How Jesus saved my dad and my family This article was adapted from «Kingdom Man» by Dr. Tony Evans, Senior Pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas and president of The Urban Alternative.
A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.
The third, the study of an urban, African - American Pentecostal church with strong family ministries, was conducted by Browning and his assistants.
The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.
Too often relegated to urban slums, the projects have suffered from a concentration of extremely poor families and a disproportionate level of black occupancy.
Nevertheless, if the issue is as depicted, ethicists will be inclined to support the proposals along with finding ways to ease the adjustment of the family farmers into urban life.
The cozy little garden in the backyard of her family's urban home is where we had this breakfast.
Aside from my jaunt up to the big city, I also did some picnicking in the park with my family, a bit of urban gardening, and worked on one of my latest projects — a follow up to my first book (tentatively titled) Great Gluten - Free Vegan Eats Gone Global.
«On behalf of Urban Expositions, event producers, we are thrilled to recognize Danny Meyer with this award which recognizes his commitment to driving innovation and hospitality in the restaurant community,» said Ron Mathews, Vice President for the Urban Expositions Family of Foodservice Events.
MENU & CHEF TEAM: Under the inspired direction of Urban Kitchen Group's Executive Chef Joe Magnanelli — a natural culinary savant whose Italian heritage and experience in both classic bastions of East Coast luxury (Lespinasse, Bistro Lepic) and small, family - owned eateries — the menu combines the flavors of Italy with the organic freshness of California.
What is the potential of urban agriculture to make a substantive contribution to food security and food sovereignty of the families, communities and individuals involved and / or supported by these organisations and their projects?
What is the potential of urban agriculture to be a source of community development, in terms of generating employment and additional income for hard - pressed family budgets, and helping to establish self - sustaining local and regional food economies?
«These awards recognize commendable professionals who trail blaze a leadership role in the restaurant and foodservice industry, along with the Ferdinand Metz Foodservice Forum; for providing exemplary innovation; and initiating improvement and education by engaging the industry», said Ron Mathews, Vice President for the Urban Expositions Family of Foodservice Events.
About the Urban Expositions Family of Foodservice Events: Since 1936, hundreds of thousands of restaurant and foodservice industry professionals have attended The Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo, Florida Restaurant & Lodging Show, and International Restaurant & Foodservice Show of New York to gain experience and knowledge on how to become more informed, more educated, more competitive, and more profitable in the industry.
Shelton, CT: July 30, 2015 — Urban Expositions, producers of the Family of Foodservice Events and the Ferdinand Metz Foodservice Forum proudly present the 2015 TORCH AWARDS.
Camellia Waldorf School (www.camelliawaldorf.org) is located south of the downtown Sacramento area and is perfect for urban families seeking a Waldorf curriculum.
«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»
To address the specific challenges of urban and inner - city families, where fatherlessness and the negative consequences that come with it are often at their worst, NCF continued expanding.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) works with property owners to offer reduced rent to low - income families.
As a side note, I was also fortunate enough to be exposed to a fair amount of diversity as a child (international background, family outside of the U.S., urban schooling for some time), and I've lived abroad for the past 5 years.
Yet, as the important research of the University of Chicago «s William Julius Wilson has shown, the breakdown of black families is a relatively recent phenomenon that accompanied the evaporation since the 1960s of the high - paying, low - skill industrial jobs that had brought waves of black families to the urban North.
Jessica's requirements: Jessica and her family live in the «urban» suburbs of New Jersey.
Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7
One of the more common situations of young parents nowadays, is the lack of space, especially for families living in urban areas.
Our team of urban travelling families have tested nano on planes, trains and automobiles to test and prove its first class rating in functionality and style for you and your baby.
Urban families that use a stroller as a commuter vehicle might get a lot of use out of a full - coverage snowsuit.
A truly lightweight, compact folding travel stroller that offers an authentic Mountain Buggy experience, nano provides dual functionality of car seat compatibility to easily transforming into a fuss free urban stroller - a desired product for today's busy, travelling modern families.
2 - armed randomised control trial of a prenatal paediatric home visit for urban low - income families.
On the basis that the context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).
Women were defined by sociodemographic criteria in three studies: living in the three most disadvantaged postcode areas and over the age of 16 (Hoddinott 2012), over 18, nulliparous, low income families, who had not yet selected a paediatrician (Serwint 1996), and low - income urban women (Sellen 2013).
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z