Sentences with phrase «other social challenges»

At other times we need to learn to step back and let kids be kids when other social challenges occur.
For the past seven years at NPY Women's Council she has influenced Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal thinking to create employment, support health and wellbeing, and tackle domestic violence and other social challenges.
But we can create great school options now for young people that can help to mitigate these other social challenges.
And there are other social challenges, such as poverty reduction, that need to be addressed simultaneously, Guan adds.
According to him, social protection policies remained a mix of policies, programmes and projects designed for individuals and households throughout lifecycle aimed at ensuring that poverty, hunger among other social challenges are eliminated in the society.
Camp Alsing (Unity, ME) is a premier, residential coed camp in Maine for kids ages 9 - 15 with high - functioning autism and other social challenges.
It will insist that any version of Christian faith that does not grapple with war and peace, human equality, hunger, civil liberties, the hard decisions posed by medical technology, and a host of other social challenges is not a version of faith worth the time of either pulpit or pew.

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Whether on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, or any number of social media platforms, it can be a challenge to set your content apart from others».
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»
By repackaging the data in an easy - to - read dashboard and by layering in a social element, Nike allows its customers to connect, challenging each other through friendly competitions to run a certain number of miles «together» in a given week even though they may live 3,000 miles apart.
An advantage for entrepreneurs looking to make a social impact is that rural - outsourcing work is more challenging and rewarding for skilled workers than many other local options.
In other words, Roost specializes in helping business owners who are clueless about social media or severely time - challenged or both.
But De Gregorio acknowledges the challenge they present going forward and fears that, particularly at a time when growth in the region is slowing and external circumstances are changing, a flair for populism and the power of vested interests might undermine the process of continued economic reforms needed to foster, among other things, shared prosperity and social inclusion.
As excitement has grown, so have forecasts of blockchain solutions to identification and migration, supply chain - transparency, land registration, lending to the poor, and a host of other social and environmental challenges.
The «Critical incidents among women entrepreneurs» study cited above, claims that «the main challenges they (women) face in their professional context are: difficulties concerning acceptance, lack of affective and social support, difficulty operating on the international market, problems balancing personal, family, and professional matters,» among others.
With social networks, support, advocate and other online communities, brands find it challenging to determine the best source of customer intelligence.
The company also deleted several other employees whose identity and existence were challenged on social media forums.
Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other like - minded apostles of social change, and their followers, have been effective in challenging the prevailing power structure because they did not merely appeal to reason and high purposes.
But in other respects, students face new challenges in practicing traditional values in a new social context.
One benefit to social media and the internet is that we can challenge and learn from each other like never before, which hopefully allows us to grow into Christlike love.
Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.
Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.
A nostalgic reminiscence from the Clinton years: Social historians, the addlepated media, and other leftists have delighted in categorizing those of us who are «post-war baby boomers,» as self - indulged, morally challenged, half - wits who follow the remnant of the Grateful Dead around in....
While each of St Benedict's twelve steps of humility (which are listed below) have a strong message of their own, the second step in particular is quite a striking one, being of great importance in today's society which is so full of consumerism, family breakdowns, celebrity culture, social media, vanity and many other problems and challenges.
The liberal optimism, which largely had abandoned the concept of sin and believed that the world could be put right by education and social and economic reform, was challenged by Karl Barth, Emil Brunner (1889 - 1966) and other continental European theologians.
Recognition of the social character of the individual and of the interpersonal character of society brings the parties somewhat closer to each other and both are challenged by the question: What is the chief end of man, whether as redeemed individual or redeemed community?
The social gospel itself was an enormously creative emphasis, and, while it declined in influence as neo-orthodoxy arose to challenge its liberal theological foundations, it survives to the present, mainly under other names.
Factors in the struggle of a people to exist as a corporate body are set forth in the four - function paradigm of Talcott Parsons.10 Although the adequacy of his analysis is challenged by other theories, especially those focused upon social change, 11 Parsons's model provides a useful delineation of the actions implicated in a group's toil to perpetuate itself.
Seeing the bigger picture will allow us to understand other people's perspectives and worldviews, which will allow us to work together to solve tough social challenges we face in our global community.
On the one side, its right to exist was questioned by those who insisted that whoever knows one religion (i.e., Christianity) knows all religions; on the other, its religio - scientific methodology was challenged by reductionist psychological and social - scientific approaches.
In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.
Its only because people do take some sense of security in their groups of indoctrination, that prevents most people who barely have time to survive on a day to day basis, to want to take the time to challenge and possibly lose a source of social comfort, over what they also may deem to be other questionable items if doctrine.
The Lord's Table open to people of different castes and tribes and sexes challenged the traditional spirituality that divided peoples into the ritually pure and impure and thereby supported social structures of caste, sex and other discriminations.
To this he adds three other categories: teacher of wisdom, social prophet, and founder of a «Jewish renewal or revitalization movement that challenged and shattered the social boundaries of his day.»
It further states that In the Third World, where all religions together face the challenges of enslaving social and cultural systems and the need to struggle for justice, religions should meet each other, exploring and sharing their liberative elements.
The challenge involves people getting doused with buckets of ice water on video, posting that video to social media, then nominating others to do the same, all in an effort to raise ALS awareness.
The screening was held as part of a social media campaign called #ForThePlayers created by Sony Pictures to support the movie's release in which football fans are being encouraged to «Dance or Donate»: either upload a video of their touchdown dance to YouTube or Instagram, or make a donation to make a tax - deductible donation to MomsTeam Institute, a leader in educating sports parents and other youth sports stakeholders about concussions and repetitive head trauma since launching its pioneering Concussion Safety Center in 2001, and challenge their friends to do the same.
But it's clear that Facebook and other social networking sites has made life more challenging for people in relationships, and a sobering study recently published in the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy indicates how ill - equipped most therapists are in dealing with Internet infidelity:
A study released in the Archives of Disease in Childhood revealed that breastfeeding may be helpful in improving a child's chances of climbing the social ladder and effectively navigating other challenges that may occur as adults.
Play therapy helps to accelerate the child's development of appropriate social and emotional skills, such as understanding and managing emotions, dealing with challenges and frustrations, solving problems, interacting socially, and many other skills.
The MomNetwork, ClubMom's newly launched social network, allows moms to search for and connect with other moms based on similar challenges, interests, kids» ages, and geography.
Provided training, other foster parents, and social workers will help with the discipline piece or any other parenting challenge that may occur while fostering a child.
The middle school years are times of social pressure and rejection, as well as other challenges your tween may not have yet experienced.
Outreach to caregivers and other community groups followed, and the past two decades have seen tremendous achievements throughout the wider community, particularly in supporting parents who, because of their social and economic circumstances, might not have access to the resources they need as they take on the challenging job of raising young children.
The pressure to finish school, buy baby clothing and other baby needs as well as remain a part of their school social life is more than challenging.
Camp Excel A specialized program for children with ADHD or other social skills challenges.
This page is here to support other parents through their challenges to parent for social justice, we welcome all to that journey, it's a hard one, but deeply fulfilling.
What we do know is that the solution does not lie in exporting to other parts of the world the values formed in the new social sphere (as held by many neoliberals) which can only exacerbate the problem; nor in sidestepping, or doing away with, the challenge from the new social.
Dr. Yakubu is being challenged by six other aspirants: Dr Du - Awia, Mohammed Zakaria, the 41 year old Director of the School Social Work; Mohammed Abdul - Aziz, Mr. Alhassan Adam among others.
Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda
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