Sentences with phrase «on behalf of the child who»

As we have honed our expertise in working on behalf of children who face obstacles to learning, we have seen that children with special needs need predictable and supportive environments to be able to improve their social and emotional skills.

It turns out, however, that they've sacrificed themselves on behalf of a child who carries the virus and goes on to infect the rest of the world.

I have realized the potential to have greater impact, beyond just my school, on behalf of children who have experienced trauma or toxic stress.

A framework for understanding why kids need these interconnected abilities and how they're nurtured in different contexts, it's also a call to act on behalf of children who deserve to live full, meaningful lives beyond external measures of success.

Advocates for Children of New York works on behalf of children who are at greatest risk for school - based discrimination and / or academic failure due to poverty, disability, race, ethnicity,...

Specifically, Section 16 of SB 302 amended NRS 387.124 (1) to provide that the apportionment of funds from the DSA to the school districts, computed on a yearly basis, equals the difference between the basic support guarantee and the local funds available, minus «all the funds deposited in education savings accounts established on behalf of children who reside in the county pursuant to NRS 353B.700 to NRS 353B.930.»

Teach For America alum such as Deray McKesson are rightfully standing with criminal justice reformers on behalf of children who must deal with issues outside as well as inside of schools.

Florida lawyers have filed a lawsuit on behalf of children who are supposed to be compensated pursuant to a well intentioned by awful program Florida has for children with birth injuries.

The New York Court of Appeals, which is the highest state appellate court in New York, recently released a decision affirming two lower court decisions to exclude a plaintiff's proposed expert witnesses in a personal injury case filed on behalf of a child who was born with serious birth defects and disabilities alleged to have resulted from his mother inhaling gasoline fumes while she was pregnant with him.

Child Plans are a combination of investment and insurance.The parent is the Policy holder on behalf of the child who is a minor, and on the completion of 18 years of age the money is passed on to the child.

Courts around the country drive much of the public's action on behalf of children who may have been or who are at risk of maltreatment.

parens patriae A legal term referring to the State's power to act for or on behalf of children who can not act on their own behalf, in their best interest.

One such organization, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), trains volunteers to advocate on behalf of children who have been abused or witnessed the abuse of others.

Not exact matches

Indicates whether or not the lender allows parents who took out Parent PLUS loans on behalf of their children to refinance their loans.

In the past, she has worked with Republicans on legislation that reformed the foster care system and encouraged more adoptions, issues I know matter to many pro-life evangelicals who advocate on behalf of adoption and open their homes to children.

on behalf of a man who was not denied his freedom of speech but merely his freedom from reproach for freely speaking hatred, Syrian families were being murdered, Honduran children were falling ill from unclean water, and American citizens were being denied equality.

Pro-life advocates see themselves as acting on behalf of unborn children, who can not protect themselves.

Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

In other words, who I become as a mother can filter into other arenas of life, including activism on behalf of other mothers and their children.

While I can't speak on behalf of all NGOs who participate in such programs, I can now state with confidence that World Vision's child sponsorship program consistently exhibits the following:

The university food sciences team who carried out the survey on behalf of cleaning experts Vileda also tested a used child's dummy after it had been dropped on the floor and discovered growth of E. coli.

Legal action has been taken by US campaigners on behalf of former child slaves who worked on farms supplying Nestlé and other companies.

The Association of Infant Mental Health of Tennessee invites professionals who work with or on behalf of young children (ages 0 - 3) and their families, to consider the AIMHiTN Endorsement ®.

Infant Mental Health (IMH) Endorsement ® for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship - Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health (IMH - E ®) is an internationally recognized credential that supports and recognizes the development and proficiency of professionals who work with or on behalf of young children, ages zero to three, and their families.

Endorsement recognizes the development and proficiency of professionals who work with or on behalf of young children, ages zero to three, and their families.

* Advocacy in school systems on behalf of our children's capabilities and for research into the treatments and therapies that can help those children who need them live more fruitful lives.

In other words, parents who share joint custody may only share joint legal custody, meaning that they equally share the responsibility for making major legal decisions on behalf of the child.

Children Awaiting Parents works on behalf of these children, typically teenagers, sibling groups who wish to stay together and / or those children with speciaChildren Awaiting Parents works on behalf of these children, typically teenagers, sibling groups who wish to stay together and / or those children with speciachildren, typically teenagers, sibling groups who wish to stay together and / or those children with speciachildren with special needs.

This clarification was necessitated when our Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns from the baby food industry and also engages with entities such as the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in infant and young child feeding.

There is long - running legal action in the United States brought on behalf of former child slaves who worked on cocoa plantations.

WHO Technical Consultation on Behalf of the UNFPA / UNICEF / WHO / UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV.

PMTCT strategic vision 2010 — 2015 -(2010) WHO - Preventing mother - to - child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals HIV and infant feeding: Update (2007) Based on the technical consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, Mothers and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 - 27 October 2006 HIV and infant feeding: new evidence and programmatic experience (2007) Report of a technical consultation held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, Mother and their Infants, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 - 27 October 2006 WHO HIV and infant feeding technical consultation - consensus statement (2007) Held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV infections in pregnant women, mothers and their infants Home - modified animal milk for replacement feeding: is it feasible and safe?

The companies have the Department of Trade and Industry lobbying legislators on their behalf, while the Department of Health, WHO and UNICEF have said in joint statement that the draft bill: «aims to support multinational companies while damaging the Filipino society: families, the mothers and children.»

So I'd like to address those now, on behalf of all parents traveling with children to all adults who are not.

«All of the folks who have been anti-marriage equality have been professing to speak on behalf of our children, but up until the point where we filed our first brief, nobody had actually thought to ask children raised by same - sex couples what their experience had been.

There seems to be a lot of judgment, on behalf of judgy parents and police / child protective services, of children who are doing things independently of a supervising adult.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary suppowho are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary suppoWHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

WHO technical consultation on behalf of the UNFPA / UNICEF / WHO / UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV.

No one else was seeing these lasers,» said Police Officer Vincent Adamo, who took the stand in Nassau County Supreme Court on behalf of D'Amato in the bitter child - custody case.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an op / ed posted to Medium on Wednesday urged fellow Democrats in Washington to exert some leverage and negotiate on behalf of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, a community known as dreamers.

Repeating the governor's claim that state cuts to education do not require layoffs, Mulgrew said it was clear that Mayor Bloomberg's priority «is not to get money for the schools; he would rather fight over who to lay off than fight on behalf of children.»

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

As a public figure who is charged with decision - making on behalf of our children, we demand that Carl Paladino be held to the same standard as our BPS students, and be immediately removed from the Buffalo Board of Education,» stated the BPTO.

After jumping in to slam Randy Altschuler in NY - 1 last week on behalf of Democraticn Rep. Tim Bishop, state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs this morning slammed another GOP candidate, Michael Grimm, demanding that he apologize «to every man, woman and child who calls Brooklyn and Staten Island home» for comments he made to The Hill earlier this week.

During his more than four decades in government, Commissioner Scoppetta put his remarkable intelligence and his considerable managerial and leadership experience to work on behalf of the people of this City, first as a prosecutor and then as a deputy mayor and later as the Commissioner who brought much needed reform to the Administration for Children's Services.

The senator then asked Pruitt how many suits he'd brought on behalf of children with asthma (who often suffer in polluted air).

In accepting the award on behalf of the Foundation, Executive Director Cynthia Joyce thanked Dr. De Vivo and the many child neurology specialists who have cared for children with SMA and advised foundations over the years.

The award credits Harris for being a «steadfast advocate» who has «worked tirelessly on behalf of children, adolescents, and their families.»

«Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self conscious young adult) who no longer exists.»

«So, I want to accept this award, not for myself — I'm accepting this award for all the fathers out there who have taught your children to have courage, and I also accept it on behalf of every single cancer patient out there and all their caregivers.»