Sentences with phrase «preventing families in poverty»

Law Society Report «Disqualified from justice: Legal aid means test»: On 20 March 2018, the Law Society published a report, which can be downloaded here, which finds that the civil legal aid means test is preventing families in poverty from accessing justice.

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Although the work is more fulfilling, the job comes with its own stresses — being entirely responsible for preventing a family's eviction, navigating the hot mess of housing court in New York City, and feeling unequipped to deal with clients» everyday problems like crushing poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, and every kind of discrimination you can imagine.

While I do not have time to get into it in the talk, I am tremendously committed to supporting at - risk families around the world, and to preventing children from being orphaned by poverty.

Pessimists feared that if rising population prevented the world's poor from advancing, they would get caught in a cycle of poverty and large families.

So, while the effects of intergenerational poverty and trauma are real and take an immense toll on students and their families, they do not necessarily prevent Indigenous students from succeeding in education.

Because socioeconomic and racial segregation so often overlap — even as black and Latino families are more likely to live in persistent, unstable poverty — these strategies are a necessary step toward preventing racial marginalization from persisting in schoolhouses.

This document outlines the role that afterschool programs play in supporting families living in high - poverty areas by answering questions about what afterschool program participation looks like, what the demand for afterschool programs is, what is preventing parents from taking advantage of and children from participating in afterschool programs, and what the afterschool program experience is like for families in communities of concentrated poverty

Home - visitation programs can be an effective early - intervention strategy to improve the health and well - being of children, particularly if they are embedded in comprehensive community services to families at risk.4 Home - visitation programs are not a panacea, sufficient unto themselves to reverse or prevent the damaging effects on children of poverty and inadequate or inexperienced parenting.

«With this funding increase, Seattle can deliver high - impact results on fighting poverty and preventing crime,» Thomas Jenkins Jr., president of the Nurse - Family Partnership, said in a statement.