Sentences with phrase «risk families and children»

The size and scope of the study provide a wonderful opportunity for home visiting programs to contribute information to the national debate about policies and practices designed to improve the well - being of at - risk families and children.

Columbus, OH About Blog DFYF provides behavioral health, clinical, prevention and education, outreach, community and home - based services to at - risk families and children in central Ohio.

Columbus, OH About Blog DFYF provides behavioral health, clinical, prevention and education, outreach, community and home - based services to at - risk families and children in central Ohio.

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Globally, nearly 800 million people are at risk of hunger — this includes children, seniors, families and military veterans.

Globally, about 800 million people are at risk of hunger — this includes children, seniors, families and military veterans.

«Children should be learning about money management and debt from their school or family, not from irresponsible payday loan ads which make these high cost high risk loans seem like a normal way of managing money.

You know how you only have to do something for a child once or twice, and it somehow turns into a tradition — a cherished family ritual that one violates only at the apparent risk of destroying all good memories of childhood?

A former chemist - turned - pastor, he and his wife now work with at - risk children and families.

Although parents (and indeed governors and teachers) are often uneasy about early or explicit SRE or providing access to family planning services, their feelings are sometimes ambiguous due to a concern that, if they do not follow such a course, children will be at greater risk of underage pregnancy.

Can people in bad, poor areas break out of the cycle of family instability that puts children at risk academically, economically, socially, and emotionally — a cycle currently working its way through the working class?

A skyrocketing percentage of our children lack any chance of having a stable, two — parent family, and as a result, are increasingly at risk of abuse and of following a life of crime.

Of the 698 children born on Kauai in 1955, 201 were in the high - risk category, exposed to various combinations of perinatal trauma, family discord, chronic poverty, and alcoholic, under - educated, or mentally disturbed parents.

Families flee conflict to save their lives, leaving behind their homes and jobs, and putting at risk their children's futures.

As the Trump administration has shifted policies on undocumented immigrants and individuals with temporary protected status (TPS), putting more individuals at risk of deportation, Christians have quickly brought up the dilemma of mixed - status families, whose children are US citizens but parents are not.

Research suggests that families who eat together more frequently lower the risk of incidents among their children, including alcoholism, truancy and poor school performance, Sarasin notes.

Some of the marketing material highlighted in Lion's cross claim includes: «A2 will improve human health through the consumption of a2 dairy milk products», «studies suggest that milk containing only the A2 type of protein may benefit you and your family if you're concerned with certain allergies, immune function or digestive wellbeing» and «there is significant evidence to suggest that beta casein A1 may be a primary risk factor for heart disease in adult men and also be involved in the progression of insulin dependent diabetes in children... Beta casein A1... is the most powerful risk factor ever discovered.»

Some parents strive to keep their homes and vehicles peanut - free even if their own children aren't allergic because it lessens the risk for young family members and friends who visit.

By the time a Hamilton star is singing to a room full of donors and players in this gilded room, the Posadas have already made multiple aid trips, starting out helping the most at risk people — families, children, the elderly, and those who needed immediate medical attention — before moving on to «Phase 2» of «cleanup, rebuilding, and infusing the economy.»

JIM MORA COUNT ON ME FAMILY FOUNDATION: The Foundation, created in 2005, is a not - for - profit 501 (c)(3) organization which supports children in need, primarily in three target areas: children from low socioeconomic backgrounds, mentally and physically - challenged children, and children at - risk.

While low - income, ethnic - minority families displayed less sensitivity overall to their children, positive father involvement and close mother - father relationships were especially beneficial in the case of maternal risk.

Postnatal It is important to provide fathers with information and support after the birth of their children especially in high - risk families.

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.

The overall goal is to reduce levels of risk and raise levels of care for children in families where there are safeguarding concerns, through more and better engagement with fathers.

Pediatricians, too, are beginning to screen for ACEs and offer early intervention services to families and children at risk.

After the traumatic hospital births, which were physically damaging to my mother and life risking to my brothers, and after the cold way the hospitals handled her miscarriages, it was a beautiful relief for her to experience such an easy birth at home without complication, with less pain and more beauty for mother and child, and for their family, too.

• Child welfare workers in many countries tend to have negative stereotypes of men in families in which children are at risk, assuming the fathers to be uncommitted and uninvolved parents, and unable to cease drug use (Zanoni et al, 2014).

With statistics showing that one in five children will grow up to develop skin cancer and that protecting skin from the sun during childhood and adolescence is important to reducing the risk of cancer later in life, it's vital that parents become educated about sun safety, take steps to protect their kids against the damaging effects of the sun and build safe sun habits into the family routine.

There are many uses for such a questionnaire, such as: a) helping place at - risk children (e.g., abused, neglected, diagnosed) with safe and nurturing parents, b) potentially reducing the number of failed adoption placements, c) protecting children from at - risk adults, and d) screening foster / adoptive families to reduce the possibility of abuse and / or neglect.

Children of divorced parents and unusual family structures are more likely to experience emotional turbulence in their own relationships and have a higher risk of going through breakups in their marriages, study after study claims.

Children, seniors, post-cataract patients and those with a family history of AMD who persistently use digital devices do have an increased risk for damage from blue light.

The finding that parental separation (and also being born to parents who have never lived together) poses a risk to the quality of both parents» relationships with their children should increase the urgency of developing policies to support these families.

• Better engagement with fathers and father - figures in families where children are at risk is likely to result in better risk assessment, reduced burden on mothers, enhanced resources for the care of children and better risk management, leading to reduction of harm (Zanoni et al, 2013).

She has received more than 40 grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse to design prevention programs for children and families at high risk for HIV, mental health problems, suicide, and substance abuse.

It is up to parents to decide for their family whether to allow their child to start, or continue, playing football, not some present or former player, journalist or scientist who takes the position that football is either too dangerous to be played by anyone or safe enough to be played by all (October 25, 2015 update: this is exactly the position adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics in its 2015 Policy Statement on Tackling in Youth Football in which it leaves parents - presumably in consultation with their child's pediatrician - to «decide whether the potential health risks of sustaining... injuries [in tackle football] are outweighed by the recreational benefits associated with proper tackling»); and

Pediatricians play a crucial role in identifying children who are at - risk for food insecurity and connecting them and their families with federal nutrition programs and other community resources.

The Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD) was established over four decades ago to improve the quality of life for all children and youth, especially those with, or at risk for, special needs and their families.

Older children may be more sensitive to family conflict and feel more pressure to intervene, which could increase their risk for problems, but they also have more emotional resources to help them cope, which could decrease their risk.

For 30 years, her clinical experience has been in the areas of prevention and early intervention services for families and young children living in conditions of risk.

Forty - plus years later, it turns out, scientists are learning that all those undeniable benefits have not come without risks — to the environment, the planet, and, in what may be the most shockingly personal risk of all, to our and our children's ability to start healthy families of our own.

While these findings from the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study are positive, they risk blinding us to the fact that children of LGBT parents may still face certain unique issues and challenges.

A: The Children's Rights Council (CRC) is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization serving families and at - risk youth for more than 30 years, long working to promote a society where laws, attitudes and public opinion affirm that «The Best Parent is Both Parents» ®.

The weather is hot, families are out and about, and the risk of injury and illness for children is up.

Online child protection specialist Crisp Thinking has joined the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) to help drive awareness of online risks for young people and promote industry best practice.

You could possibly get full custody of your children; however, Nevada family courts favor shared physical custody and are likely to grant each parent equal time with the children, unless the children are at risk of coming to harm in the presence of their other parent.

This needs to stop now before more children and more families are put at risk.»

''... in a new Council on Contemporary Families briefing paper, the sociologists Margaret Usdansky and Rachel A. Gordon report that among mothers of young children, those who were not working and preferred not to have a job had a relatively low risk of depression — about as low as mothers who chose to work and were able to attain high - quality jobs.

Parents in at - risk families who completed the Start Smart program with their child reported more positive parenting attitudes and behaviors, as well as better parent - child relationships.

The American Academy of Family Physicians states in its breastfeeding position paper «because breastfeeding is the physiologic norm, we will refer to the risks of not breastfeeding for infants, children, and mothers.»

All families complete a Parent Survey or similar assessment in order to determine the presence of various factors associated with increased risk for child maltreatment or other adverse childhood experiences, as well as identify family strengths and protective factors.

Evidence - Based Model Crosswalk to Benchmarks: Model Alignment With Benchmark (PDF - 641 KB) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services & Health Resources and Services Administration (2011) Describes the Affordable Care Act Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), and how the act responds, through evidence - based home visiting programs, to diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities through collaboration at the Federal, State, and community levels.