Sentences with phrase «particularly vulnerable communities»

For over 40 years, Sesame Street has gone beyond the power of television to deliver targeted lessons and support to particularly vulnerable communities.

We do this through our shows, as well as through numerous educational outreach programs that make a direct impact in particularly vulnerable communities.

Not exact matches

U.S. building and fire protection standards and regulations have improved in the last 10 to 15 years, particularly in California, but many communities are still extremely vulnerable.

However, it also highlights that extractives companies are particularly vulnerable to poor governance and ethical controversy, and harmful, long - lasting impacts on communities and the environment.

It is particularly exciting that Golden Rice has the potential to help the poorest people in the most vulnerable and remote communities get enough vitamin A where they currently can not.

In this case, Orbitz is particularly vulnerable because it has advertised specifically at the LGBT community, opening it to charges of hypocrisy.

Indeed, the committee failed to consult members of the Charedi Jewish community who are the most visible Jews in the UK, and therefore the most vulnerable to anti-Jewish prejudice and attacks - particularly outside of Twitter.

And this requires not just the security measures I have outlined but that we work with all communities and all countries through debate, discussion, dialogue and education as we tackle at root the evils that risk driving people, particularly vulnerable young people, into the hands of violent extremists.

During our visit last week it was encouraging to see the attention given to infection prevention and control in the community setting, particularly in light of the vulnerable people that Abacare Care Agency look after.

She particularly is sensitive to the issues facing individuals from the more vulnerable communities who would appear before her in Surrogate's Court.

«LGBTQ young people, particularly LGBTQ communities of color, are more vulnerable to becoming homeless and need our support,» said Department of Social Services Commissioner Steven Banks.

But implementation of policies is not enough; countries, and the global health community, need to collect timely, reliable, and detailed information on the effect of those policies, particularly among vulnerable populations and those being directly targeted by the tobacco industry.

Projects that encourage student participation are particularly welcome, as are projects that involve partnerships with marginalized or vulnerable communities.

«Although our research suggests that dinosaur communities were particularly vulnerable at the time the asteroid hit, there is nothing to suggest that dinosaurs were doomed to extinction,» Richard Butler of the University of Birmingham, said in the statement.

Obvious things are volunteering to help the community, particularly the vulnerable, or working to protect the environment.

Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools do.136

Her research reflects urban school reform initiatives such as the community school model, democratic community engagement, culturally relevant family engagement, and the intersection of housing and educational policy, particularly as it impacts vulnerable families.

June's professional interests lie in the design of equity - based instructional systems and building expertise in educators» practice to ensure that all students, particularly our most vulnerable children, exit our systems able to thrive in our dynamic, interconnected, global community.

But officials with GLSEN, a national network that advises K - 12 school leaders on LGBT policy, tell Policy Watch that open scorn from public officials such as James can be particularly damaging to a community that's especially vulnerable.

Ultimately, the success and sustainability of efforts to improve educational excellence and equity, particularly with regard to our most vulnerable students and communities, requires robust and thoughtful partnership between and among federal and state and local governmental agencies and a broad variety of community members.

To maximize financial and volunteer resources, so that Centraide, particularly by funding community agencies and working in partnership with them, can promote caring and social involvement in order to improve the quality of life in our community and empower its most vulnerable members to take charge of their lives.

Recent observations show that societies are highly vulnerable to even modest levels of climate change, with poor nations and communities particularly at risk.

It is a means of fostering healthier and more resilient communities, which is particularly important in places that are implicitly vulnerable to climate hazards like severe drought.

«particularly those who are vulnerable in our community,» Mr Owler said.

«The heatwaves that we've experienced, particularly in some of the more southern climates such as Melbourne... we have already seen deaths occurring in our public hospitals from people, particularly those who are vulnerable in our community,» Mr Owler said.

However, most of the key technological innovations have not reached many of the developing countries and vulnerable communities, particularly those in Southeast Asia; therefore, it is important that the region has the capacity and knowledge needed to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of the changing environment and assessments such as the TNA workshop is indispensable.

The U.S. National Climate Assessment concluded that climate change is harming the health of many Americans and identified people in some communities of color as particularly vulnerable to these effects.

This activity report consists of a fact sheet presenting UN system's concerted activities to help people and communities in countries, especially those particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, to manage climate - related risks in their efforts to achieve sustainable socio - economic development.

The lessons of 2017's hurricane season show that we still have a long way to go, particularly when it comes to helping the most vulnerable communities.

We must protect our most vulnerable communities — and particularly communities of color — from the physical, economic, and public health effects of global warming, while providing pathways to prosperity.

While vitally important, this approach has largely ignored the impact climate change has already taken on vulnerable regions around the world, particularly agricultural communities, that urgently need resources to adapt to an altered climate.

In R (on the application of Greenwich Community Law Centre) v Greenwich Council [2011] EWHC 3463 (Admin), the law centre challenged the council's decision - making process and claimed it failed to have regard for the consequences, particularly on its existing vulnerable clients.

We identified two groups who may be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of the legislative framework surrounding home heating: low - income individuals in rural communities, and single mothers.

The Legal Resources Foundation, with the support of the EU under the Zimbabwe Justice Sector Programme, is offering legal training to traditional leaders with the aim of improving access to justice for rural communities in Zimbabwe, particularly those who are marginalised and vulnerable.

More to the point, the CJEU has repeatedly ruled that the provision of legal certainty and the protection of particularly vulnerable victims of the use of motor vehicles lie at the very heart of the Community law objectives in this area.

Schulman describes innovative programs involving particularly vulnerable groups where legal advisors meet people in the community to deal with the complex web of problems they face and, in particular, to identify their legal risks and, in concert with their health professionals, to develop strategies to reduce those risks before they reach an otherwise inevitable crisis.

The 2014 Federal Budget measures aimed at the wider community will impact the most vulnerable poor people in Australia into deeper levels of poverty, particularly Indigenous Australians.

They have contributed to longer sentences, to mandatory sentencing, less ability to appeal and less tolerance with very little evidence of efficacy — particularly amongst the most vulnerable in our community.

Both these roles provide Greg the plural responsibility of passing information to the community and also hearing the needs of people within the community — particularly vulnerable people and people with ongoing or occasional specific needs.

Our mission is promoting relationships which are respectful, fair and safe, particularly where people and communities are at risk or vulnerable.

To promote relationships that are respectful, fair & safe, particularly where people & communities are at risk or vulnerable.

CatholicCare offers professionally delivered programs and services to the community in response to the needs of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society, particularly children.

continue to provide information, particularly to vulnerable groups across the community, about people's rights and responsibilities under the law

She emphasized the significance not only for the Ballymun community but for wider society, «especially as, once again, we are confronted with how poorly we have treated children and parents in the past, particularly the most vulnerable, and we are being challenged to learn the necessary lessons so that we don't continue to repeat the past.»

Building on the Foundation's long - standing interest in adolescent children, we work to ensure that enriching after - school programming is available and accessible to middle school students, particularly vulnerable youth in under - resourced communities.