Sentences with phrase «prevented access to community»

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Americares helps communities prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters, increase access to medicine and medical supplies, improve and expand clinical services, prevent disease and promote good health.

«As a State Senator,» he explained, «I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing access to quality schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

Dating sites helping spread HIV — For instance, sites and apps could provide affordable advertising access to help prevent infection in communities that are most impacted by HIV.

He examines statutes and regulations in five states with significant rural populations — Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, and Ohio — and brings to light policies and practices that prevent charters from opening in rural communities, constrain access to human capital, and create significant disparities in funding.

Last week, the Weber - Morgan Health Dept. Tobacco Free Coalition held a community meeting to bring people together to discuss ways to curb access and prevent addiction among young people.

The Toolkit is intended to help community members break down old transportation barriers and prevent new barriers to access and opportunity.

They understand that controlled access to the community can not prevent your apartment from catching fire or flooding up.

This is a great way for us to offer low - cost spay / neuter to communities in outlying areas, and to offer transportation locally to pet parents and free - roaming cat caretakers who might not have access to transportation or whose schedule prevents them from coming to Humane Ohio directly.

Personally, I would rather have free education to a high standard for all young adults and provide new dedicated establishments with free facilities, cafe, climbing walls, gyms, computers, athletics, boxing, clubs, community centre, etc and access to education and people who would be mentors to try to prevent some committing offences in the first place.

It would «cause double - digit electricity price increases in 40 states» and «would prevent struggling communities from accessing reliable and affordable fuel sources, which could eventually lead to poor families choosing between putting healthy food on the table or turning their heater on in the winter.»

I suspect the technical community would consider it a right, in the rather limited sense that one should not be unreasonably prevented from purchasing access from their personal nets to the internet, by either legal or extra-legal means.

Rhode Island Legal Services provides high quality legal assistance and representation to low - income individuals and eligible client groups for the purpose of improving their economic condition and overall wellbeing by protecting and enforcing legal rights, stabilizing the family unit and communities where clients live, promoting self reliance, ending domestic violence, preventing homelessness, affording dignity to all people, and reaching out to groups with added burdens on their ability to access the civil justice system.

All of these policies severely limited Indigenous women's livelihood by severing community ties and preventing Indigenous women's access to community resources and safety networks.

«This gap between being eligible for legal aid and being able to afford counsel that she fell into meant she wasn't able to get the legal assistance that could have prevented the crime from happening,» said Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, addressing members of the legal community who came together last week in Toronto to launch the second year of Flip Your Wig For Justice, the pledge - based fundraiser, which aims to raise awareness as well as money for access to justice programs in Ontario.

They understand that controlled access to the community can not prevent your apartment from catching fire or flooding up.

The access gate to enter the community will prevent unwanted strangers from coming into your homes.

The mission of the [company name] is to make the county a safer and healthier place by working with community partners to promote health, prevent disease, reduce environmental hazards and ensure access to health care for all community members.

Their resumes highlight such skills as helping clients obtain benefits and services, such as housing assistance; aiding community members in accessing services to prevent homelessness; and assisting clients with obtaining financial assistance when required.

Richard Weston, a Meriam man and CEO of the Healing Foundation, said: «We need broader strategies around preventing crises, and to be supporting communities to access healing and other services before they get to crisis.»

Early diagnosis and intervention for children with FASD are thought to be key to preventing behavioural, mental health and learning difficulties.36 — 38 However, Fitzroy Valley community members have reported that a current lack of diagnostic and intervention support for children with FASD impacts their children's ability to reach their full potential.14 Children with FASD need access to interventions which support their development of emotional and behavioural regulation skills.38 It is recognised that educators, alongside the family, play a crucial role in supporting children with FASD to improve life outcomes through contextually appropriate and evidence - based interventions.36 While there is limited evidence for strategies that can assist children affected by FASD, 2 particularly to improve self - regulation and executive functioning skills, 8 17 32 39 the Alert Program for Self - Regulation has evidence to suggest it is a promising intervention.17 39

When unable to appropriately address the causes or when there is no access to adequate non-medical or community services to treat depression, patients may become further burdened due to a lack of solutions for specific conditions.33 Our study provides a practical and non-medical option to prevent higher levels of depressive symptoms.

Partnering with parents to identify and access resources in the community may help prevent the stress that sometimes precipitates child maltreatment.

Smart Start strives to improve outcomes for children by increasing young children's access to healthcare and by working with providers, health departments, families, and communities to improve the health and safety for young children, prevent childhood obesity, and ensure that more children are screened for developmental delays and referred to services for help before they start school.

These outcomes are to: increase access to prenatal care, reduce smoking during pregnancy and afterward; prevent child abuse and neglect, increase parent knowledge of early childhood development, strengthen the home environment; increase access to medical home; increase family support; and increase community connectedness.

provide education and access to information concerning the main health problems in the community, including methods of preventing and controlling them; and