Sentences with phrase «serve children whose»

Interagency collaboration, a core principle in systems of care, focuses on bringing together and engaging critical stakeholders, such as juvenile justice, mental health, education, law enforcement, and Tribal authorities, in a coordinated and integrated effort to serve children whose needs cross multiple systems.

Along with the need to serve children whose families are economically disadvantaged, there are issues of civil rights in public education.

Not exact matches

The Club is a home away from home for many of the children whose parents have multiple jobs in this under - served community.

This book will serve as an invaluable resource for any parent whose greatest longing is to shepherd their children into a vibrant faith in God.

The early - childhood organizations whose work I highlighted in the first half of this report are all still small in scale, serving at most a few thousand children or families.

Just ask Jillian Johnson, whose son's tragic and preventable death serves as a lesson that there is no one - size - fits - all approach to feeding children, and the health care industry need to reexamine the way in which they support new mothers.

Families best served at SWS are those whose values are compatible with the culture of the school as an educational community, who share SWS's educational goals, and who seek the unique character of Waldorf Education for their children.

We welcome you to join our Philanthropy Circle, a distinguished leadership group whose annual gifts of $ 500 or more provide critical support to the agency and our programs that bring hope and healing to the vulnerable children and families we serve.

The story features kid - and - food expert Ellyn Satter, whose mantra is that it's the parents» responsibility to decide what is served and where and how it is eaten, but the child's sole responsibility to decide whether to eat and how much.

While the federal government mandates schools that receive federal money serve a free lunch to children whose families meet a certain income, the funds don't cover the entire cost of the meal.

The remaining question is thus, In whose custody will the long - range best interests of the children be better served?

The term «birthmother» was invented to limit our role in our children's lives to 1) being production units («breeders» as social workers also called us) whose sole purpose was to serve a genital function, and 2) to having only been parents at the time of birth, but not afterwards.

The project also gathered insights on the survey data from a panel of school nutrition leaders whose districts are recognized for their success in serving healthy meals and snacks.3 The research makes clear that multiple strategies, particularly those that engage children's creativity and invite their input, have helped instill healthy eating behaviors at schools across the country.

The program annually serves 130 - 140 children whose emotional needs are too severe to be served in foster home settings.

We serve children who have lost a parent to cancer, have a parent undergoing cancer treatment, or whose parent is a cancer survivor — an estimated population of over 5 million children in the United States.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

Their mission is to serve babies, children and adults in need whose caregivers have to choose between food and diapers, by providing modern cloth diaper systems and other needed clothing.

Family Support Network of Central Carolina serves families whose children have been diagnosed with a special need or chronic illness, or who have been born prematurely.

A West Seneca woman whose work has focused on serving families and children will help guide the completion of one of the region's most highly - anticipated projects.

«Whose interests are we serving here in the Senate: Perpetrators or survivors of child sexual abuse?»

SCR 116 specifically honors the more than 158,000 military children living in California whose parents serve in the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Guard, and...

Another approach is to pair a child with SLI with a classmate whose language is developing normally and can serve as a role model.

When she isn't sharing her love of yoga with others, she serves as a lawyer, professor and parent support guide for those whose children have special needs, and enjoys her life as wife and mom of 3 boys.

The children of women who ate fish two or more times per week while pregnant revealed higher cognitive scores than the children whose mothers ate less than 2 servings per week or none at all.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children also reunites Burton behind the camera with his Dark Shadows and Big Eyes cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, whose knack for creating glossy visuals through his film work (by utilizing soft shadows / focus shooting techniques) looks to serve Burton's upcoming film well - in particular, during those scenes that take place in the fantastical setting where Miss Peregrine and the «Peculiars» live.

At times, he work also entails serving as a surrogate mother to several children, whose mothers are — she supposes — too young and busy to do the job themselves, during her career.

Her successful brother (whose perfect wife serves their perfect children truffled mac and cheese) offers to pay for a «night nanny» for her.

Willem Dafoe's paternal motel manager is as good as advertised, while young Brooklynn Prince serves up quietly devastating work providing the child's - eye - view of kids whose kingdom might never be magic.

Houston — Sisters - in - law Rosa and Sandra Tristan, whose children attend a school that serves a predominantly poor and Mexican - American community here, have joined the computer age.

A strength of NCLB is that it draws attention to the academic skills of children from low - income families, children of color, children whose first language is not English, and children with disabilities — groups that historically have not been well served by American schools.

Never mind that the constituents of many such Democrats are needy inner - city families whose children are ill served by the schools those union members teach in.

He also served as the chair of the Human Development Program for 20 years, recruiting several generations of developmental psychologists and cultural anthropologists to Harvard whose work reshaped the face of child development and education across the country.

These questions include the potential value of having a socially and economically diverse group of children together prior to kindergarten; supporting families with working parents who require full - day care and education for their young children; and where best to serve children with special needs whose early education costs already are fully assumed (regardless of family income) by the public schools (based on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA]-RRB-.

I am also a TODAY show contributor reporting late - breaking educational and child related issues (as well as to Education Nation and Dateline) and serve as Goodwill Ambassador for One Laptop per Child (OLPC) whose goal is to bridge the education divide in third world countries so all children have a chance to receive an educachild related issues (as well as to Education Nation and Dateline) and serve as Goodwill Ambassador for One Laptop per Child (OLPC) whose goal is to bridge the education divide in third world countries so all children have a chance to receive an educaChild (OLPC) whose goal is to bridge the education divide in third world countries so all children have a chance to receive an education.

For the families we serve, whose children are more apt to attend low - performing schools and have less - effective teachers than their privileged peers, the time taken for standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academically.

They can't claim to be champions for all children, especially those black and brown, and still serve an administration with an avowed white supremacist, someone whose ideology stands for harming those very youth, within its leadership.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

Mission The Children's Aid College Prep Charter School is a community school whose mission is to prepare elementary school students for success in school and in life by providing them with a rigorous instructional experience, addressing their physical, emotional and social needs, fostering a sense of pride and hope, and serving as a safe and engaging community hub.

Current projects include assuming the post of Founding Director of MindChamps Music for MindChamps, an international early education company whose headquarters is in Singapore and serves a vast number of teachers and children in Southeast Asia and Australia.

There is also a service premium for children whose parents serve in the armed forces; this is currently # 300

Through the identification of low performance defined by a single «F» or «D» and the acceleration of the process to demonstrate improvement or closure - like options, Florida will witness a proliferation of failing schools whose children will need to be served in other educational settings outside of traditional public education.

But school districts with mostly Latin @ and Native Americans educators and students, but also some with other ethnolinguistic communities, used their bilingual programs to serve families ---- some whose children were highly bilingual, others who were not.

We want an end to mayoral control, state takeovers and other privatization schemes that remove our right to hold public officials accountable for the education policy they set; and curiously target cities whose public school systems serve primarily African - American and Latino children.

I am holding you responsible for the 9 - year - old student who came to school with hardly any sleep after witnessing his mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the autistic child whose parents opted him out of the test but the school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a public - school TEACHER to serve on the Board of EDUCATION, yet the chair of this Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»

This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child» system that has left troubled schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those schools.

«The facts of the mailer in question are indisputable and serve as a public service announcement to Latino families whose children have as much right to attend quality schools in any neighborhood they choose as anyone else.»

Their proponents champion them as incubators of innovative approaches to education and teaching, for having high academic standards that encourage students to reach their full potential, and as an important source of educational choice for Black, Latino, and Hispanic families, whose children are disproportionately served by charters.

However, while the most common forms of family engagement (such as encouraging parents to attend school events, serve as classroom volunteers, and participate on fund - raising committees) tend to line up well with middle - class child - rearing practices and family resources (Lareau, 2003), they can be less accessible to families who have recently arrived in the United States, or whose child - rearing practices differ from those of school leaders.

A premium has also been introduced for children whose parents are currently serving in the armed forces.

Moreover, the U.S. State Department — whose Office of Children's Issues serves as the Central Authority for the United States under the Convention has long espoused and argued for — such an interpretation and the U.S. Government submitted an amicus brief supporting the father's position.