Sentences with phrase «said child advocacy»
«The Child Fatality Review Team seeks to make sense out of terrible tragedy,» said Child Advocacy Center Executive Director Ann Marie Tucker.
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«We were amazed by the response,» said Child Advocacy Center Director Ann Marie Tucker.
Not exact matches
Obviously you aren't doing anything in leviticus because the NT testement has already said that the OT is null because jesus came, but there's still a lot of advocacy for slavery and sale of your children, not to mention how a woman should act and how a man should act.
«Working alongside pro-choice women on issues of human trafficking, domestic violence, genocide, foster care, and even special needs adoption has been among the most meaningful work I've been a part of,» said Kelly Rosati, Focus on the Family's vice president of advocacy for children and a speaker at the Evangelicals for Life conference this week.
One health advocacy group said it found high levels of lead in dozens of products purchased around the country, including children's jewelry, backpacks and ponchos.
The mother says she practices child - led weaning, which is supported by the Schaumburg - based breastfeeding advocacy organization, La Leche League International, and allows the child to determine when he or she is done nursing.
Responding to Ms. Obama's advocacy of breastfeeding — and the IRS's recent announcement that breast pumps and other nursing supplies are now tax deductible — Bachmann (who breast - fed her own biological children) said on Laura Ingraham's radio show:
«Children learn their adult roles through play,» said Seana Huizenga of the Lincoln Park chapter of La Leche League, a breast - feeding advocacy group.
«We are a growing population and one thing that has been lacking at the community center has been something to service the families and children,» said Richard Alalouf, director of South Florida Family Pride, a volunteer group that provides advocacy and support for LGBT families.
Speaking at a stakeholders meeting on productivity, Maternal, Nutrition, Child Advocacy and Health and Nutrition at the State House in Abuja, Aisha said the management of Aso Rock Clinic were redundant and inefficiency after a budget of N3bn.
The advocacy manager of Challenging Heights, David Kofi Awusi in an interview with the media said, the organisation was established to rescue children from such activities and make sure they receive adequate education.
«With this funding, child advocacy centers will be better equipped to partner with law enforcement to bring the abusers to justice while offering effective emotional support services to child victims and their families,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.
Dutchess County Legislature Minority Leader Barbara Jeter - Jackson said, «This budget continues Dutchess County's focus on services for our youth and families — everything from a $ 1.5 million investment in supportive programming to protect our families and children, to our continued commitment for our countywide Sexual Assault Response Team and domestic violence advocacy.
We look forward to working with Senator Klein to ensure that New York State makes the investments necessary to ensure high - quality early childhood education for New York's children,» said Gregory Brender, the Co-Director of Policy and Advocacy for United Neighborhood Houses.
«New Yorkers from all over the state overwhelmingly support the Child Safe Products Act,» said Ashley Orgain Manager, Mission Advocacy & Outreach Seventh Generation said in a statement.
Speaking at an advocacy dialogue with traditional leaders in the region for the elimination of harmful social and cultural practices, Ms Amidu said research showed that quality education, improved sanitation, nutrition, maternal and child health, and access to water supply also recorded low rates.
Jennifer March - Joly, executive director of the Citizens» Committee for Children, a child advocacy organization present at the meeting, also said she supports Bloomberg's plan.
New York's children deserve facilities that are clean, safe, developmentally appropriate and inviting and a staff that this well - trained and fairly compensated,» said Gregory Brender, co-director of policy and advocacy, United Neighborhood Houses.
«The Oneida County Child Advocacy Center is to be commended for its continued commitment to effectively serve victims of child abuse,» said Teresa Huizar, Executive Director of National Children's AlliChild Advocacy Center is to be commended for its continued commitment to effectively serve victims of child abuse,» said Teresa Huizar, Executive Director of National Children's Allichild abuse,» said Teresa Huizar, Executive Director of National Children's Alliance.
«We have seen this pattern all along Delancey Street right near the Williamsburg Bridge of reckless driving, of drivers not recognizing that this is a community where children live,» said Jennifer Godzeno, pedestrian advocacy manager at Transportation Alternatives.
«The reaccreditation of the Oneida County Children's Advocacy Center by the National Children Alliance is a tremendous honor and a testament to the unparalleled work it does to protect and support the victims of child abuse in our community,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «I would like to commend Director Joseph Lisi and all of the center's partners for the fine job they do and congratulate them on this receiving this high distinction.»
said Jennifer March, Executive Director, and Stephanie Gendell, Associate Executive Director, Policy and Advocacy, for the Citizens Committee for Children.
«School kids living in homeless shelters must contend with unimaginable levels of stress and hardship, and are at a tremendous disadvantage when trying to keep up with their housed peers in class,» said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.
«We are honored to be partnering with the Oneida County Child Advocacy Center, not only during Child Abuse Prevention month, but throughout the year with our two recently added CAC advocates,» said YWCA Mohawk Valley Executive Director / CEO Dianne Stancato.
«We need a budget proposal from the governor and legislature that finally pays the money owed to our children and prioritizes schools that need funding the most,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, at a Jan. 10 press conference outside City Hall to kick off a new push for public school funding in Albany.
said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.
«There is no dignity in a community that watches their women bury their children,» said Debra Smith, who heads the family support and advocacy committee of the Erie County Opiate Task Force.
The physical wounds heal but research is showing that the effects on a child's social, emotional and future physical health is far more damaging than we once thought,» said Mary E. Jones, MD, child advocacy physician at Loyola University Health System.
«The findings highlight the importance of having a supply of epinephrine available in schools, and people trained to administer it during an allergy emergency,» said Michael Pistiner, MD, MMSc, FAAP, and author of the abstract and Director of Food Allergy Advocacy, Education and Prevention at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) in Boston.
American voters say «reversing declining trends in children's health and education» should be the Clinton Administration's third - highest priority, according to a survey released by a national children's - advocacy coalition.
«Legislators in Ohio have once again stood up for families that lack access to high - quality educational options, and we thank them for putting kids first,» said Betsy DeVos, Chairman of The American Federation for Children, a school - choice advocacy group.
I could have gone on to academics, but my day job was doing child - care advocacy and saying, «Come on, let's get this going.»
Encouraging those voices is important, since «most educators — just like most Americans — don't have personal experience with the military,» says Mary Keller, the longtime leader of the Military Child Education Coalition, a prominent advocacy and resource center for teachers and parents, and one of the sponsors of the OEE campaign.
The Mexican - American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a Latino advocacy group, had sued on behalf of Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria, saying that two of the Dallas mother's children were discriminated against because they were assigned to English - as - a-second-language classes at Preston Hollow Elementary School based on their ethnicity, not their language...
«The provisions dealing with teacher quality in No Child Left Behind have done a wonderful job of focusing attention on the issue of teacher quality in the United States,» said Jack Jennings, the director of the Washington - based Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan advocacy group that sponsored the gathering.
«It took us 20 years to pass the first 20 private school — choice programs in America and in the 21st year we passed 7 new programs,» says Scott Jensen with the American Federation for Children (AFC), a school - choice advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. «So we went from passing, on average, one each year, to seven in one fell swoop.»
«The changes you've seen around the country show that Race to the Top has been an incredible catalyst,» said Jonah Edelman, the chief executive officer of Stand for Children, a parent - advocacy group active in six states.
«Choice for me is either sending my child on a bus ride away because [a school] offers the science program that he loves so much, or the school that's literally five minutes way that he can roll out of bed and walk to because he loves art,» says Zakiyah Ansari, advocacy director for the New York - based Alliance for Quality Education, which opposed school closures.
Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust, an advocacy group that seeks to close the achievement gap, said she is concerned that plans submitted by Indiana and Oklahoma don't do enough to hold schools accountable for educating Latino, African American and other minority children.
But Kayla McGannon, the director of advocacy for Stand for Children Colorado, said that while backing candidates who supported SB 191 was a «big priority» for the group, it also favored incumbents or challengers who shared the organization's broader views of education policy, not just on teacher effectiveness.
Following a nationwide series of public hearings, the NAACP said it «rejects the emphasis on charter schools as the vanguard approach for the education of children, instead of focusing attention, funding, and policy advocacy on improving existing, low performing public schools...» Next year's election of a new State Superintendent will amplify the school wars.
Only onefourth of teenagers in households with less than $ 35,000 in annual income said they had their own laptops compared with 62 percent in households with annual incomes of $ 100,000 or more, according to the report, to be published on Tuesday by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit children's advocacy and media ratings group based in San Francisco.
Child advocacy groups such as Children Now, meanwhile, say some districts didn't follow the intent of the new system by expanding services for high - needs students, didn't set measurable goals and didn't clearly identify the programs they will use to achieve those goals.
«He is leaving us with a legacy of classroom overcrowding, communities fighting over co-located schools, kindergarten waiting lists, unreliable school grades based on bad data, substandard credit recovery programs and our children starved of art, music and science — all replaced with test prep,» said Leonie Haimson, the head of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group and a critic of Mr. Klein's.
Ted Lempert, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Children Now, said Torlakson's choice of appointees will be important.
Samantha Tran, senior director for education policy at the Oakland - based advocacy group Children Now, said more specifics are needed throughout the accountability plans so community members can clearly see what districts plan to do.
Sandy Mendoza, an advocacy manager at Families in Schools, said parents want to have quality schools for their children no matter what their ZIP code.
«When you have national standards, it becomes very hard for a state school board to control what exactly your child is learning,» said Jenni White of Restore Oklahoma Public Education, a parent advocacy group.
He said Wisconsin «residents know of his advocacy for their children.»
Can you explain your advocacy of school choice when all available data say that there is extremely low likelihood that parents / children will choose to leave their neighborhoods for school choice?