The center can take in up to 82 children and offers a wide variety of child care
programs focusing on children's physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and academic development.
Unbeknownst to outsiders, however, most Head Start
programs focus on child development rather than on early literacy and numerical skills.
All divorcing parents of minor children and unmarried parents with custody access disputes must attend a parenting educational
program focused on their children's needs.
One Colorado study showed that paraprofessional home visiting, when combined with an early - intervention
program focused on children with developmental delays, resulted in improved involvement with the program.25 In North Carolina, the combination of a public health department's home - visiting program with links into private physician's offices was helpful in overcoming personal and structural barriers to care.43 The Commonwealth Fund's Healthy Steps intervention included home visiting by masters - level healthy development specialists with significant gains in the quality of well - child care, although the multifactorial nature of this intervention made it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the home - visiting component.44 — 46 A South Carolina study showed that a program that linked school - based home visitors to group well - child visits resulted in greater retention of anticipatory guidance and improved satisfaction with care.47
David and Lucile Packard Foundation The foundation's Children, Families, and Communities
Program focuses on children's access to high - quality health care, the development of children and youth, the economic security of families, and the reduction of violence in homes.
Graduate school
programs focus on child problems and ignore or exclude school - related factors.
Not exact matches
Facebook
focuses on updates to
programs while also providing an outlet to build their «humanity» branding strategy including posts
on about how «invisible» and «voiceless» aren't appropriate words to use for
children.
The
program's
focus in
on educating
children about healthy food habits and exercise.
According to the Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that
focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million
children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.
That's where you can help, by starting a quality
child care
program offers peace of mind to parents so they can
focus on their work.
He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged
children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational
program through an aviation
focus), and has served
on the State Board of Education.
Their work includes a
Children's Centre,
focused on single and impoverished families, a pilot micro loan
program for education and business development, an ongoing partnership for home ownership within the community, and a deep local commitment to the spiritual growth, empowerment and development of the community.
While Upbring has evolved over more than 135 years of service, our organization remains firmly
focused on delivering innovative
programs and services that address the root causes of
child abuse and neglect.
My parents hoped that Breakaway would prepare me for adolescence, but I still preferred Adventures in Odyssey,
Focus on the Family's wonderful
children's
program.
Would it not embark
on a comprehensive
program of parent education as a central
focus of its work, making the discoveries of the psychologists concerning the emotional hungers of
children, from the very dawn of life
on, easily available to all its parents?
The specific
focus of the postdoctoral research training
program is to educate the next generation of researchers
on rehabilitation strategies for
children with MS. Fellows who complete the training will be uniquely equipped to conduct rehabilitation - oriented research
focusing on improving quality of life and outcomes for
children who have MS.
Finally, we also offer licensed pre-kindergarten
programs which
focus on supporting
children in becoming independent and confident learners, through our unique curriculum that respects each
child's individual development.
The mission of the Sports & Society
Program is to convene leaders, foster dialogue, and inspire solutions that help sport serve the public interest, with a
focus on the development of healthy
children and communities.
The resort features Paintbox, which offers
children's
programming for kids 5 - 12 with a
focus on creativity.
After school
program helping
children with academic, behavioral and social struggles by
focusing on the root of the issues, the brain.
Programs like No
Child Left Behind and Common Core — with their
focus on «hard skills» and the mastery of content, both very «carpenter» - like approaches to education — have failed
children, and teaching has regressed to an emphasis
on test preparation.
Also, in the Total
Focus program for kids with ADHD, Dr. Robert Myers suggests making an «I'm bored» collage that includes visual cues of all the things your
child can do at home
on their own if they are bored.
The research provides some of the most conclusive evidence to date of fathers» importance to
children's outcomes and reinforces the idea that early childhood
programs such as Head Start should
focus on the whole family, including mother and father alike.
After doing that for seven years, Iris returned to Argentina and opened a
children's
program that
focused on music and arts and crafts as well as teaching music at several schools.
The Foundation has awarded grants to local adoption organizations in every state to execute aggressive
child -
focused recruitment
programs targeted exclusively
on placing foster care
children with adoptive families.
Programs focus on the schools, because as the Surgeon General suggests, schools are a highly impactful place to reach
children and transform their eating habits.
Most
programs for kids with ADHD
focus on training parents, which is very important, but these
programs do not speak directly to the
child.
Her research has
focused on Early Head Start, a federally funded, community - based
program for low - income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers, and Promoting First Relationships ®, a prevention
program dedicated to promoting
children's social - emotional development through responsive, nurturing caregiver -
child relationships.
For instance, in the Total
Focus Program, the parents and the
child are shown ways of working together
on relaxation exercises that improve concentration and reduce frustration.
So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be
focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information
on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of
child nutrition
programs.
Total
Focus is a multi-media
program that comes to you
on CD with an interactive workbook, daily success charts for teachers and a handy «stress meter» to help your
child recognize when he's «over the top» and stay calm under stress.
The
focus on imitative and imaginative play in the early childhood
program develops the power of creative thinking, preparing
children for the academics of the grade school years and beyond.
Programs vary and are based
on need; some
children may only require a weekly 30 - minute session
focusing on articulation.
Developed by the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) and Athletic Business magazine, the award recognizes
programs that are doing superior jobs of conducting diverse activities with a
focus on providing safe and positive experiences for all participants, including
children, parents and coaches.
So, an all - around
children's yoga
program will
focus on strength, flexibility, breathing, balance and concentration.
Everything about the
program is
focused on the
children's well - being and ensuring that their experience is a positive and richly rewarding one.
The most effective intervention we have is a
focus on parental attachment, through a public policy of home visit
programs, starting in the first days of a
child's life.
The company's
programs focus on developing
children's physical, communication, social, and cognitive skills.
In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he
focused on the Harlem
Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social
programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.
She said that while Weiss «clearly loved and wanted the best for her daughter,» she «wasn't thrilled» by the article, especially since it somewhat misleadingly portrayed her
program, which
focuses on empowering
children, stresses that parents refrain from embarrassing their kids in public, and allows kids a number of indulgences to enjoy with friends.
For more than a decade, the Excellence Awards have recognized
programs that are doing superior jobs of conducting diverse activities that
focus on providing safe and positive experiences for all participants - including
children, parents and coaches.
While the Standards
focus specifically
on recreational youth sports
programs, they are applicable in a variety of sports settings to help ensure safe, positive and
child - centered experiences.
SRP is a specialized
program of the NWAE that
focuses on specific waiting foster
children in Washington who need extra recruitment help to find an adoptive family.
Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for
Children established the Office of Community Health
Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to
focus on public health and disease prevention.
A
focus on children prenatal / birth to 5 years and
child maltreatment prevention, intervention and treatment has been part of the Center's
programming since its inception.
The Y Preschool
program focuses on the developmental and educational needs of the young
child - with an emphasis
on school - readiness and fun!
Positive Discipline isn't something that just started: during the 1920s, co-founders Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs developed the reasonable idea to treat
children respectfully and
focused on parental classes and
programs to help promote this.
Be sure to share your Shoes That Fit tote bag creations
on social media and let others know about this great
program that will offer
children the opportunity to
focus on their studies and not worry about what's
on their feet.
If your
child wants to get active, but hasn't yet
focused in
on one particular sport then a year round
program may be perfect for them.
Dana's
program focuses on improving a
child's sleep rather than lecturing parents about a sleep philosophy.