Sentences with phrase «practice serving children»

«Kaloupek Counseling, LLC is a private counseling practice serving children, adolescents, and parents in the Decatur and surrounding areas.»

«Cognitive Behavioral Psychology Services is a specialized mental health practice serving children, adolescents, and adults with a variety of adjustment, transitional, and mental health issues.

Currently she is a psychotherapist in private practice serving children, adults and couples.

Darren DeYoung is a guest writer for Allison Holt & Associates, a Minnesota - based psychiatry practice serving children, adolescents and adults.

Participants will be familiar with findings from Dr. Foster's Winston Churchill Grant study of programs and practices serving children and families with parental mental illness across jurisdictions

My practice serves children, teens, adults and families in a comfortable setting.

My clinical practice serves children, teens, and adults struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, gender identity development, neurodiversity (ASD and ADHD), grief and loss, transitions, and much more.»

Not exact matches

Before starting private practice, he taught at University of Tennessee and served as Chief of Anesthesia at St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, TN.

She has served in several board leadership positions, and through navigating the private, independent, and charter school experiences of her own five children, has gained valuable insights into the diversity of school policy and practice.

But Millennials must also practice a healthy diet of connected and disconnected behaviors to serve as their children's role model of how best to leverage tech to enrich life while still remaining human.

Before returning to private practice, Dr. Schultz served as the Co-Director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Development at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Teaching Hospital.

But instead of continuing to serve as the primary guardians of our children at play - hanging out a city window to check on our kids» play in the street below, or looking into the backyard to monitor a group of ten - year old kids playing touch football - today's mothers are usually found sitting in the stands, working behind the concession counter selling snacks and raffle tickets, working as team administrators, or chauffeuring their kids to and from practice and games.

Child Care promotes five best practice goals for childhood obesity prevention: increase physical activity, reduce screen time, offer healthy beverages, serve healthy food, and support breastfeeding.

They serve as a basis for action and are intended to clarify that optimal practices for feeding infants and young children during emergencies are essentially the same as those that apply in other, more stable conditions.

If you are unsure about a finger food wait until your child is a little more practiced before offering it but there are a few things you can ask yourself before serving it:

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Selective Mutism Association and is Associate Editor of the peer - reviewed journal Evidence - Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Describes promising practices that can help increase the reach of breakfast during the summer, including serving breakfast later in the morning, providing breakfast on weekends, promoting breakfast participation, incorporating activities for children, and maximizing economies of scale.

In June 2012, CDC awarded a 3 - year cooperative agreement to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to assist 89 hospitals, mostly located in states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designation.

Erie County is currently in the process of drafting legislation that proposes to establish new criminal standards for actions that endanger the welfare of children, provide for more robust and intensive CPS investigations, and update technology and reporting practices to better serve children and families, as well as focusing on other improvements to current CPS law.

CAIP strives to respond to reports of child abuse and maltreatment in a coordinated manner, employing best practice methods in a child - centered environment to best serve the needs of child survivors of abuse and assault.

Pena, who previously served in private practice for 14 years in San Juan, Puerto Rico, focuses her practice on dermatomyositis, uveitis and scleroderma in children and musculoskeletal complaints.

As children learned to write, local walls served as giant exercise books where they could practice their alphabets.

His life and career now are everything he hoped they would be: he is happily married with three children, runs a successful practice, and serves as the medical director of AOR.

«And we know that high - quality practices in social - emotional learning can make a substantive difference in children's educational experience, and can serve as a powerful lever for transforming behavior at scale.»

Krechevsky stresses that educators need to revisit key assumptions that have long guided practice in the past to determine what kind of education will serve our children best now and in the future.

High - stakes accountability with annual tests that are not tied to course content (which reading tests are not) amounted to a tax on good things and a subsidy for bad practice: curriculum narrowing, test preparation, and more time spent on a «skills and strategies» approach to learning that doesn't serve children well.

It presses for a twin focus on fluency in decoding words and reading comprehension, urges reading improvement programs to stress impact rather than the number of children served, and calls for strengthening professional development and linking improved training in language development and reading to classroom practice.

By All Means consortium cities will implement a variety of best practices for working across municipal agencies and community based organizations in order to deliver outcomes that are measurably better at serving all children and youth.

We have alumni who work in public policy organizations, serve on local school boards, practice education law, and fight for equity in school finance or, as physicians in low - income communities, provide quality health care for children.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

Three areas are pivotal to achieving that end: (i) early access to programs that serve children age 0 - 3; (ii) working with parents (direct practice of skills and intensive home visiting); and (iii) high quality programs entailing teacher - child interactions that promote higher - order thinking skills, low teacher to child ratios, and ongoing job - embedded professional development.

Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs: Serving children from birth through age 8 (3rd ed.).

Deep understanding of this topic is a new phenomenon, steeped in recent neuroscience research and a young body of evidence on effective school - based practices and high - impact partnerships between schools and other child - serving professionals and institutions.

By participating in visioning sessions with their staff, principals can be better prepared to advocate for the practices that they believe are most critical for the children they serve.»

Americans for Immigrant Justice Non-profit law firm that champions the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children; advocates for survivors of trafficking and domestic violence; serves as a watchdog on immigration detention practices and policies; and speaks for immigrant groups who have particular and compelling claims to justice.

We welcome constructive criticism of anything we do because our goal is to serve children well, and we do not claim to have a monopoly on good ideas or good practice.

Both one - way, as well as two - way, dual - language bilingual programs often fall short in legitimating the practices of bilingual Americans, for they have been built following an immersion pedagogy that might serve English - speaking majority children well, but that does not build on the entire language repertoire of bilinguals.

Findings are couched in the context of improving practices and policies in U.S. schools that serve Mexican immigrant children.

The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Foundation Task Force on Early Learning recently recommended that pre-service training «include a focus on child development, knowledge and practice to promote children's school readiness, early childhood curricula and assessment, and approaches to family engagement as well as the interrelationship between programs that serve children up to age 5 and K - 3 programs.»

Job Embedded Project Summary — The Early Learning Academy will provide sustained, on - going professional development opportunities in child development and early childhood education best practices for principals serving young children.

(a) Credit in developmentally appropriate integrated curriculum and practices in programs serving children ages three (3) and four (4);

In sharing our best practices with early childhood professionals, we can equip them with what's needed to better serve at - risk children and families.

As the number of dual language learners (DLLs) in early care and education (ECE) programs increases, it is critical to examine whether the quality of practices in these settings reflect the needs of the diverse groups of children being served.

Jessica Minahan is a board - certified behavior analyst and special educator who serves as the director of behavioral services at the Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents group practice in Newton, Masssachusetts, and as a consultant to clients nationwide.

The purpose of this document is to increase Michigan's capacity to improve children's literacy by identifying systematic and effective practices that can be implemented at the organizational level in educational and child care that serve young children.

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 - NAEYC's 2009 Position Statement

Black leadership is necessary not only in terms of maintaining close connections with the community in the role of teachers, para professionals and principals, but also in the capacity of leading CMOs, influencing policy and practice, and designing and facilitating strategies for schools that serve hundreds and thousands of children.

However, while the most common forms of family engagement (such as encouraging parents to attend school events, serve as classroom volunteers, and participate on fund - raising committees) tend to line up well with middle - class child - rearing practices and family resources (Lareau, 2003), they can be less accessible to families who have recently arrived in the United States, or whose child - rearing practices differ from those of school leaders.

READING - Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 - NAEYC's 2009 Position Statement

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)(2009) «Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8.»