Sentences with phrase «partnership on closing the gap»

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In an initiative now being piloted in six cities across the country, communities are working to redesign their municipal systems and form new citywide partnerships so that everyone — elected officials, nonprofit leaders, healthcare professionals, social workers, parents, business owners, and educators — takes on the responsibility of supporting children and closing the opportunity gap.

From my work founding an innovative public - private partnership aimed at closing the achievement gap to my service on Madison School Board, I've seen firsthand the barriers standing in the way for too many students.

In addition to increasing funding to help close the per - pupil funding gap between charter and district schools, Connecticut lawmakers were able to expand an innovative district / charter partnership program to more than 30 districts and provide funding to offer more new charter school seats to the nearly 4,000 kids stuck on waitlists.

COAG agreed to a partnership between all levels of government to work with Indigenous communities to achieve the target of closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage.

This commits the Government to work in partnership with Indigenous people, and their representative organisations, to «close the gap» on health inequality and life expectancy by 2030.

However, in some more positive news, SEARCH (the Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health), a unique partnership study into the health and wellbeing of urban Aboriginal children and their families in NSW, is set to continue its work as a platform to close the Indigenous health gap, after receiving a five - year NHMRC grant for more than $ 2.8 million.

A new beginning, a new partnership, on closing the gap with sufficient flexibility not to insist on a one - size - fits - all approach for each of the hundreds of remote and regional Indigenous communities across the country but instead allows flexible, tailored, local approaches to achieve commonly - agreed national objectives that lie at the core of our proposed new partnership.

The Australian public demand that government, in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their representatives, build on the close the gap platform to meet this challenge.

And of course we've seen almost $ 5 billion of «closing the gap» branded programs from Australia governments of which the $ 1.6 billion national partnership agreement on closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes is a highlight.

At a government level this means renewing the National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes and forging an implementation plan for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

«We are seeing consistent incremental change that is strongly supported by the Australian public and increasingly by the private sector and it is critical that Governments maintain their focus on closing the gap and investing in effective programs and partnerships,» said Ms Cilento.

«Programs aimed at closing the gap must be informed by evidence of what works, based on partnerships with strong Indigenous community leadership and rigorously evaluated to ensure effectiveness.»

On National Close the Gap Day 2017 Metro South Health produced a Statement of Commitment to Reconciliation (PDF, 1.62 MB), which outlines our aims to work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to deliver health services which are capable, respectful and responsive to their needs.

The truth is: a business as usual approach towards Indigenous Australians is not working... We need a new beginning — a new beginning which contains real measures of policy success or policy failure; a new beginning, a new partnership, on closing the gap with sufficient flexibility not to insist on a one - size - fits - all approach for each of the hundreds of remote and regional Indigenous communities across the country but instead allowing flexible, tailored, local approaches to achieve commonly - agreed national objectives that lie at the core of our proposed new partnership; a new beginning that draws intelligently on the experiences of new policy settings across the nation...

COAG today agreed to a partnership between all levels of government to work with Indigenous communities to achieve the target of closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage.

In a historic event on Thursday 20 March, the Australian Government entered into a new partnership with the indigenous health sector to close the gap on Indigenous life expectancy.

continue to build partnerships and identify practical steps to «close the gap» on Indigenous health inequality

The Council of Australian Governments has agreed to a partnership between all levels of government to work with Indigenous Australian communities to achieve the target of closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage.

The Council of Australian Governments has agreed to a partnership between all levels of government and Indigenous Australian communities to achieve the target of closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage.

On the final day, at the Great Hall, Parliament House, the Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, the Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, the Opposition Leader, the Hon. Dr Brendan Nelson MP, as well as leaders of Indigenous health peak bodies2 and the mainstream health peak bodies3 signed a historic Close the Gap Statement of Intent in which they agreed to work in partnership to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.

COAG is committed to working in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to achieve the Closing the Gap reforms... Australia - wide consultations have been undertaken on the establishment of a national representative body to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a voice in national affairs... It is anticipated that it will be the primary mechanism for engaging on national Indigenous policy issues.

With nearly 200,000 Australians supporting action to close the gap, it is clear that the Australian public demand that government, in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their representatives, build on the close the gap platform to meet this challenge.

As already noted, at the 20 December 2007 COAG meeting, all Australian governments agreed to «a partnership between all levels of government to work with Indigenous communities to achieve the target of closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage».

the Council Of Australian Governments (COAG) commitment of December 2007 to a partnership between all levels of government to work with Indigenous communities to achieve the target of closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage;