Sentences with phrase «of vulnerable kids»

Have the parents of vulnerable kids in your community organized?

But ending them merely punishes thousands of vulnerable kids and their potential parents worldwide.

Once the screenplay, written by director Bryan Bertino, brings about another reversal of established roles, Ballentine effectively transitions to the state of a vulnerable kid who's afraid of the dark.

Not exact matches

He may not be a friend of the poor but the Catholic Church is certainly no friend to vulnerable kids, especially little boys.

Their hiring reversal hurt the GLBTQ community deeply as well as their allies, let alone the 10,000 vulnerable kids who lost sponsorships, so a lot of people were talking about how they were done, done, done with evangelicalism.

But it reminded me of one important, reality - based fact: Most people begin to recognize their sexual orientation when they are just kids, when they are young and vulnerable like this little girl.

The only similarity in the circumstances as known, is that both took advantage of a vulnerable group of kids.

That's not to say that having your kid do his homework, or grounding him for an infraction or insisting on chores is too much to ask of «vulnerable» children.

And kids are particularly vulnerable to the power of marketing campaigns strategically - designed to catch their attention and interest.

Furthermore, your kid's back of the neck is vulnerable when they lean on child seats.

The eldest of four girls (Jennifer lost her elder sister Stacey in an accident when they were kids), Jennifer dedicates her time and energy to helping our most vulnerable.

Even the youngest kids are aware of and vulnerable to the stress of a divorce or a death in the family, or a parent's job loss.

Noting — as I often have on this blog — that cognitive deficits make children especially vulnerable to the persuasive power of advertising, Simon and Linn object to any use of cartoon characters and other standard tactics for marketing to kids, even for objectively healthy foods such as this:

Side impact crashes are one of the deadliest types, and children in high back booster seats were especially vulnerable Britax used technology to keep these kids as safe as possible.

KID empowers communities by providing resources to speakers of other languages and other vulnerable populations.

Not only does spacing out vaccines leave kids vulnerable to infections for longer than necessary — putting them at risk of exposure to diseases like measles and whooping cough while they wait to be vaccinated — but they also require more frequent visits to a doctor's office where they could catch other diseases as well.

Underlying all of these incidents — no matter how misguided the particular actions of school personnel — is a laudable desire to ensure that kids, especially economically vulnerable kids, get a decent meal at school.

Since every mother and father is vulnerable to postpartum depression after receiving their first kid, those afraid of speaking up will have a channel to air what they feel.

«These findings show how the Department of Education is putting our most vulnerable kids at risk,» Stringer said, charging that homeless kids aren't getting the same attention as other students.

Eighty - six private agencies rake in millions of taxpayer dollars to help NYC's Administration for Children's Services care for New York's most vulnerable kids — and their CEOs get big bucks.

The idea of resilient children was hardly new, nor was the related idea that some kids are especially vulnerable to the stresses of their world.

Young and middle - age women may be more vulnerable to emotional stress because they face considerable burden of stressors in everyday life such as managing kids, marriage, jobs and caring for parents, Vaccarino said.

She also helped package meals for vulnerable populations as part of the Kids Care International Outreach training program and attend the World Food Prize award ceremony.

Studies have shown that this is true even in kids; a single close relationship can be extraordinarily protective in even the most vulnerable of children.

Kids under the age of 18 are particularly vulnerable to images of high - wattage stars smoking cigarettes on the big screen, partly because adolescents, similar to very young children, are prone to mimic behaviors they see others trying, Sargent says.

It's a brave and vulnerable turn that shapes every corner of the film - ensuring that Conor's perception of his situation, the adults and kids around him, as well as what to make of his supernatural visitor, are faithful to a person (young or old) whose life has been entirely upended.

The lack of coping skills and the increase of online harassment makes these kids more vulnerable than ever before.

Best Actress: Annette Bening — Kids Are All Right — stern, intelligent yet moving and likeable — it takes a real pro to accomplish that with such style and verve Nicole Kidman — Rabbit Hole — heartbreaking but resilient — a perfect balance between broken and fixed — it is so joyful to watch a character so succinctly communicated Lesley Manville — Another Year — heartbreaking with closeup after closeup of vulnerability and grasping hope — truly a fragile and pulsating performance Julianne Moore — Kids Are All Right — courageous and oh so human — sexy and vulnerable in an earthy way — her struggles with herself are the heart of the movie and she carries it magnificently and warmly Natalie Portman — Black Swan — the tour de force this year — the crazy, emotionally volatile core of a crazy, emotionally volatile film — some wonder if it might be «easer» to play such big emotions but the incredibly thin wire she has to traverse in such an extreme environment is daunting and she makes it work and gives us believability and solicits true sympathy in the middle of a fright fest — a truly accomplished achievement

The film hardly goes ten minutes without an action scene, and with a sense of physical stunts dominating a degree of visual spectacle, those sequences lend weight to the idea that these kids are both crafty and vulnerable in such circumstances.

Cultural Caregiving Services must be accessed to the vulnerable groups — the oppressed, those with disabilities, those suffering from trauma, victims of war and disaster, the abandoned, the street kids, the out - of - school youth, the delinquent, the indigenous youth who feel helpless, excluded or desperate.

For many of the kids at Maya, school is a place where they are vulnerable, a place where their deficiencies are on display.

Keeping Kids Cosy aims to improve the health and well being of vulnerable families with young children and reduce the pressure on health and social services.

«If you don't, you look like a phony in front of your kids, and that makes you vulnerable to the clown's desire to remove your mask.»

A huge swath of civil rights groups had been working intensely for months, pushing lawmakers to write a bill that would continue to hold states and school districts accountable for how they serve the country's most vulnerable kids.

Coming from the world of traditional public schools, Dr. Monroe initially didn't know much about charters or the work that they do for kids in our nation's most vulnerable areas.

Cuneo, the board president, praised Raymond for «directing the focus on some of our vulnerable and disadvantaged kids» and said the Priority Schools initiative was one way to address it.

Mott Haven Academy in the South Bronx is a shining example of a school working with a vulnerable population - kids in foster care.

While the focus of Safer Internet Day is designed to protect kids online, it is good advice for anyone surfing the web, including the importance of being aware of malware which ultimately can make your computer vulnerable to unsafe material.

In a system that is often touted as a model for what schools can do for kids, many of our most vulnerable students and families, particularly Latino families, are invisible.

Instead of going back to an accountability approach that was supposedly «demoralizing» teachers and school leaders charged with helping poor and minority kids succeed, Petrilli and others prefer the new approaches, which attempt to focus on the growth schools and districts make in helping our most - vulnerable.

News from New York, the city whose most vulnerable kids are under siege from Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers: A new Quinnipiac Poll finds a majority of New Yorkers disapprove of the education policies of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has followed Randi's radical agenda chapter and verse.

The fact that some organizations even went so far as to push for aspects of the waiver gambit that have led to states defining proficiency down for poor and minority kids has also made them vulnerable to accusations from traditionalists that they care little for children while making it more difficult for allies to support them in other ways.

What happened from 2006 - 11 in Hartford may have helped some kids, but came along with further marginalization of the most vulnerable children and families in our city.

In the process, they have forgotten their moral and political obligations as school reformers to the most - vulnerable children, the kids black and brown and poor and American Indian, who have been subjected to nearly two centuries of what can be best called educational genocide.

Data for dollars might seem like a fair trade until you realize tech companies are taking advantage of our youngest and most vulnerable population, our kids.

That response only fueled the fears of advocates and civil rights groups, already worried California's ESSA plan would shortchange vulnerable kids.

Poor, minority, brain diverse, and other vulnerable students are exposed to the damage of a system that treats all kids as if they should be ready for one - size - fits - all high - pressure instruction.

But thanks to the tireless advocacy of Connecticut's charter public school community, our kids won't have to suffer damaging cuts that could have brought incredible harm to already vulnerable communities.

Aren't we in the middle of a renaissance of inequity, opening Magnet after Charter after Magnet, thus weakening the Traditional schools that inevitably serve the most vulnerable, the least literate, the least motivated, and the least advantaged kids?

Citing national studies, Stevens points to several negative effects of suspensions on students apart from missing class time that include an increased risk of dropping out and getting arrested — and that the kids who are most vulnerable, including students of color, special education students, and gay and lesbian students, get singled out the most often.