Not exact matches
Increased understanding of the developing brain and how deviations from normal development can increase the risk of neurological and psychiatric diseases has created a rich landscape of
opportunity for collaborations between leading academic medical centers and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies dedicated to identifying new drugs and
other interventions to help children.
The «Train the Trainer» prospectus offers schools the
opportunity to train their own teachers to be able to deliver some of the early
intervention programmes, as well as providing those teachers with the resources to train
others within the school to identify and develop support
for specific mental health issues and signpost those needing clinical
intervention.
Unlike in the
other districts profiled here, most of the Fairfax County students attending
intervention periods are advanced and looking
for opportunities to pursue their individual interests rather than making up skill deficiencies, says Superintendent Peter Noonan.
They envision a three - pronged systemic remedy: a continuous improvement approach
for addressing educational
opportunities; targeted high - leverage
interventions focused on key transition points and needs; and stronger connections between schools and
other institutions and systems affecting the development and well - being of children and youth.
We have thought up a Metelkova City puzzle, consisting of all possible formats: from exhibitions at different venues,
interventions into public space, talks, performances and open studios, with the desire to give each artist an
opportunity for a presentation adequate to her / his practice on the one hand, and a look into the artist's work space and work process to a visitor on the
other hand.
Moreover this increased access via the internet is a unique
opportunity for career counselors and
other career development helping professionals to be agents of social justice in helping traditionally marginalized groups of society utilize such
interventions.
Too often issues of domestic violence and
other trauma are relegated to a screening checkbox and refer - strategy — reducing
opportunities for early
intervention and primary prevention.
A qualitative study of pregnant Indigenous women in Perth found that women commonly referred to smoking as normal, a stress release, a low health priority and a social experience, and commented that it was difficult to quit because they were surrounded by smoking from their family and household members.11 In the social context of high smoking rates and large numbers of adults per household, smoking may offer an
opportunity to alleviate stress, acting as a social lubricant in «time - out, yarning, and sharing with
others».11 This provides a critical target
for intervention in antenatal smoking; in order to help women to quit, it seems that consideration of and involvement with the social context in which women live are essential.
In addition,
intervention classrooms showed significant improvement in
opportunities for children to share and help each
other, compared with control classrooms.