Sentences with phrase «on homeless children»

It cost $ 2 million to house the families in Staten Island, but Matteo and Oddo called on the city to end the program because of the stress it placed on homeless children that required services local schools didn't have.

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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.

«If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.

It is sad to see the money athiest waste on these billiboards, hey athiest why don't you do something good and help feed a child, or shelter the homeless!

Oh come on Theo, 99 % of the flower children were harmless, homeless hippies.

We're active in helping the homeless, we've declare war on child hunger in the Vegas valley, and we are showing our faith by our actions, even if imperfectly.»

Rebecca Johnson writes about working with the homeless community on Skid Row and making connections with the children there.

Whether it be because you work with children, pass by a homeless individual every day, or have witnessed the impact of cholera and unsafe sanitation on a community, we all have something that triggers a desire to help.

Long - term housing for homeless women and their children is also a critical need, one often ignored by churches» outreach missions because the homeless men on the streets of downtown areas are more visible.

He spend $ 30,000 on billboards for a month - he should have donated the money to the poor, homeless and children's hospital

Why not spend that energy and money on helping the homeless or starving children?

Following an annual church dinner that took place the first Sunday of December, we provided numerous opportunities for our congregation to provide needed items for the homeless, battered women and children, poor Native Americans who lived on the reservation, and poor in our community.

He would be out on the street, walking with the homeless, helping the drug addicts and drunks, feeding the hungry, helping the children and elderly...

I watch newscasts about homeless people here and abroad, about war torn countries where people are slaughtered or sold into slavery, about children who are born with aids and die before they have a chance to live, about victims of earthquakes in China, orphanages, starving children, disease, and the list goes on and on and on.

Whether you habitually offer money to homeless people or not, let your child in on why.

CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

DockATot will be donating $ 1 for each DockATot sold on our site during the months of June and July to Project Night Night, an organization that helps homeless children (ages 0 - 12).

The burden of providing basic needs for these homeless and hungry children has fallen on the shoulders of dedicated faculty and staff who are already strapped.

The Y - Haven provides assistance for homeless mothers with one child to help them get back on their feet.

Brenda Shover leads a parenting class and provides one - on - one parent mentoring for our transitional living center for homeless women and children.

Identified students include those who qualify for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are certified for free school meals without submitting a school meal application because of their status as being in foster care, enrolled in Head Start, homeless, runaway, or migrant students.

«We rely on the community to help us further the cause of caring for the children of the homeless community and we're delighted that Mr. Cain, Mrs. Sabean, Mrs. Bochy and other family members of the San Francisco Giants have partnered with us to help us provide our Night Night Packages to more than 25,000 homeless children this year.»

Stefanik and Suzanne Bonamici, D - Ore., gained 15 co-sponsors in December on legislation to expand parameters of a federal program that reimburses child care providers, Head Start programs, homeless shelters and after - school programs for serving nutritious meals.

There are now 60,017 individuals being put up by the city — 36,463 adults and 23,554 children — according to the Department of Homeless Services» «daily report» posted on its Web site.

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, thHomeless 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, thhomeless shelters used to house families with children, across from the Crystal Family Residence, 555 Hutchinson River Parkway, the Bronx.

In one of the richest counties in NY, the number of homeless people, individuals receiving food stamps, children on free or reduced lunch has increased.

There were 866 homeless men, women and children in the shelter system whose last known address was on the North Shore, followed by 109 in Mid-Island and 66 on the South Shore, according to city numbers as of Feb. 28.

A shelter census taken on Tuesday, January 23 showed that of the nearly 50,000 homeless in shelters, 34,866 were registered as members of families with children.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Another social problem Governor Abiola Ajimobi needs to address based on the investigations by DAILY POST is the increasing number of homeless children and teenagers who hustle for daily bread and now slept under the Mokola overhead bridge.

Recently the New York Times reported on two new proposed rent subsidy programs aimed at helping families with children move from homeless shelters into permanent housing.

He was pushed on the plan by locals, including a homeless mother who said she was moved from The Bronx to Brooklyn, was unable to find housing with a city voucher and lived in a shelter riddled with mice with her two children and husband.

«With record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.»

Shelter life can put additional pressure on school - aged children who find themselves having to cope with insufficient space to complete assignments, long commutes to school every morning and the constant stigma of being homeless.

At 10 a.m. the Committee on Youth Services will meet to discuss several new bills that would require training for certain employees in treating runaway, homeless, and sexually exploited youths, and amend the requirement date for the annual report on sexually exploited children.

«My focus is on serving homeless women and children,» she said of her role as chief executive of the homeless group Women in Need.

Help them understand the homeless man on the corner, or that they can't go bragging about what they got for Christmas because some children may have not received much for the holiday.

C + Hesher Rated R for disturbing violent behavior, sexual content including graphic dialogue, pervasive language, and drug content — some in the presence of a child Available on DVD and Blu - ray After a teenage boy (Devin Brochu) loses his mother in a car crash, he meets a homeless headbanger named Hesher (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who weirdly attaches himself to the boy by moving in and consuming his life.

This absence takes on a more instructive shape in subsequent films where the documentary filmmaker as objective observer begins to imply more forcefully that «we» (filmmaker / audience) are not the same (ethnicity, culture, class) as «them» (homeless person / child, unemployed, marginal «other»).

Director Sean Baker says he focused on children in a cheap Orlando motel to show the plight of the «hidden homeless»

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Jamie Foxx Riveting as Homeless Savant in Best Role since Ray Despite being raised in the «hood by a single - mom, child prodigy Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx) exhibited such promise on the cello that by the time he graduated from high school in 1970 he had earned a scholarship to Juilliard.

Sean Baker, the award - winning director and co-writer of the great new movie, «The Florida Project,» joins Justin in studio to discuss the film, what drew him to tell this story, the juxtaposition of the hidden homeless living right outside of the most magical place on Earth, the importance of getting the details exactly right, how the movie was inspired by «The Little Rascals,» wanting to show how children make the most out of any situation no matter how dire, how desperation plays a big role in the film, the wonderful performance from Willem Dafoe, the relationship between Willem and the child actors, the challenge of working with child actors, the way Florida is portrayed in the film and what he plans to do next.

Based on the bestselling book, which inspired both a sequel and a children's adaptation, «Same Kind of Different as Me» is the true story of a wealthy Texas white couple, Ron and Debbie (Greg Kinnear and Renee Zellweger), who befriend a violent homeless man (Djimon Hounsou).

There are literally kids who are homeless outside of what's considered the most magical place on the earth for children?»»

School children across the country are being asked to kick off their school shoes and snuggle into their slippers on 9 December to raise money in support of homeless children.

Of the 20 percent of American children that live in poverty, more than 1 million go hungry every day and more than 1.3 million children are homeless on any given night.

The winning concepts included a school on a barge in the wetlands of New Orleans, where students will learn about coastal restoration and urban planning; a school located in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Museum; another focusing on homeless and foster children that will include physical sites, online learning, and mobile resource units that travel to the students; and a lab school in Brooklyn that will aim to give students career experience through partnerships with nonprofits, cultural institutions, businesses, and universities.

Or their books on tape might be donated to a local homeless shelter or children's home.

Put your slippers on at school and help Shelter to be there for homeless children this Christmas

With over 100,000 children in Britain waking up homeless last Christmas, Shelter is calling on schools to take part in this fun and easy fundraiser and support the charity's work helping families with nowhere to call home.