Sentences with phrase «shelter services in»

In preparation for this monster hurricane, American Humane is securing its offices and staff in Florida and strategically moving vital equipment, including two 50 - foot emergency rescue vehicles into position so that highly trained workers are poised to deploy and provide rescue and shelter services in the area (s) expected to be hardest hit.

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For a number of years, I had been on the board of Project Hope, which operates a shelter and provides services for homeless women and children in Boston.

Teens may prefer service opportunities with friends as well as family members, like a group effort to tutor children in a homeless shelter.

The streaming service is working with a shelter in Germany to determine dogs» music preferences, so people can find their «musical soulmate.»

Called Adoptify, streaming service Spotify has teamed up with Tierschutzverein München e.V. animal shelter in Germany to create custom playlists for dogs who are up for adoption in hopes people find their «musical soulmate.»

I don't think that in this age of tech we need to continue sheltering large Canadian companies who are unwilling to change their business model to compete with th emore flexible and customer choice oriented services that are being mamde available.

Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC) opened its doors in 1979 as an emergency shelter, a place for vulnerable adults living with behavioral health disorders and chronic homelessness to come in out of the cold for the night.

In addition, the Family Shelter hosts a public HEAD Start, which provides important childcare services that allow parents to maintain employment.

Four «last resort» shelters set up in the Keys will become more permanent, with services such as food and supply distribution.

He has also initiated programs in more than 1,500 schools, 700 prisons, and 50,000 service organizations and shelters.

Royal LePage Burloak Real Estate Services sales rep Paolo Zulian recently completed a million - mile rowing challenge in support of the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation.

Damages include flooded homes, lack of drinking water and electrical services, massive destruction of plantations and crops, risks associated with mosquito - borne and water - borne diseases, collapsed structures, public safety issues, and millions of evacuees in shelters.

They are beginning to offer services above and beyond shelter: training in household management, daily monitoring of lifestyle habits like drug use, directed job - searches, organized support groups and pep - sessions and sanctions on miscreant behavior.

We consume food, shelter and fuel, and, in some ways, we consume the services that are offered to us.

She once gave shelter to Trotsky (and is said to have argued him into the ground over the nature of social oppression), was a soldier at the front in the Spanish Civil War, sought dangerous service in World War II and served with the Free French in London.

New leaders are born weekly at Warehouse 242, and involved in service projects ranging from work with unwed mothers to work with men at a city shelter, or disabled kids or flood relief.

The local shelter in my city makes the homeless sit through a church service before they can get food and / or shelter which sounds like they do not want to help but convert.

Welfare indirectly allows many in this country to buy I - phones, flat screen TVs and cars that are nicer than those owned by the middle class with their marginal income, by paying for all of life's necessities (food, clothing, shelter and medical services) that those in the middle class pay for out of pocket.

Some churches are involved in community services, especially emergency - care services: crisis counseling centers, battered women's shelters and other housing for homeless women and young people — many of whom are running away from physical and sexual abuse.

She began to build relationships with those in need and focused on providing shelter, hot meals, counseling, and supportive services for homeless men.

The Church here is across the street from the service center and the shelter, I see lots of people in both the center and the shelter but have never yet seen any activity at the Church.

His parents made the long trip to America's northernmost town, searched in vain for his body, discovered the shelter that would have saved him, experienced the high of the four - hour funeral service and the low of leaving with wrenching questions left unanswered.

Sunday afternoons I'd have to go to the projects with Dad, where he conducted services — and then again in the evening, at the down town shelter.

Today, Eva's Village is a non-profit, comprehensive, social service organization which offers 20 programs to address needs in the community for food and shelter, medical and recovery services, and education and job training, to help those in need move toward stability and independence.

Paul has built a three - prong partnership between the DU Food Recovery Network (FRN) chapter, Sodexo; the national food service that provides meals in the university's cafeterias, and the Denver Rescue Mission, whose Lawrence Street Shelter provides food for 1700 individuals, three times every day of the year.

Then, using social media channels, she began telling everyone she knew that there is a need for diapers in women's shelters and social service agencies.

Our system is focused on providing baby equipment on rental in Alaska that is spotless, sheltered and simple to use alongside exceptional client service.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington PosIn the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Posin my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

(Wednesday February 4, 2016 — ALTADENA)-- Effective March 1, Five Acres will expand services by launching a new Transitional Shelter Care (TSC) program on their residential campus in Altadena.

The lunch service project benefited The Franciscan House of Mary & Joseph, a shelter in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood.

Such civic - minded uses for the buildings hearken back to the first field houses, built in the early 1900s under the direction of parks Supt. Frank J. Foster.Foster was inspired by Chicago's first settlement house — large buildings where immigrants could go for shelter and social services — when he ordered the construction of the first 10 field houses, which opened in 1905, said Park District historian Julia Bachrach.

Some practical problems arising from the issues mentioned above in Iraq are: 1) the lack of security during and after displacement (between areas controlled by ISIS and the government controlled locations); and 2) the barriers to access basic services such as WASH, shelter, food, education, child protection and Gender Based Violence, among others.

City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria) criticized a bill passed by his fellow Council members and championed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that increases funding and the hours of operation for animal receiving centers but gets rid of a requirement for full - service shelters in Queens and the Bronx.

With the number of homeless people in New York City reaching an all - time high, de Blasio unveiled a five - year plan in February to reduce homelessness and provide better services by opening 90 new shelters and expanding 30 existing ones, but the process of locating them has become contentious.

State Sen. Phil Boyle (R - Suffolk County), who sponsored the bill, said the number of licensed pet dealers in New York has declined by nearly 40 % over the past five years while many new not - for - profit shelter and rescue organizations have sprung up offering similar services.

LCG Community Services collects about $ 4,500 a month from the Department of Homeless Services for each adult family it hosts in its small single rooms at Klara's Family Residence, a raccoon - plagued shelter in Sheepshead Bay.»

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

► $ 54 million to include mental health services in schools, shelters and on Rikers Island, a project headed up by First Lady Chirlane McCray.

WHITE PLAINS, NY - In recognition of the county's successful efforts in addressing homelessness, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today announced that the Department of Social Services (DSS) has been awardeda $ 2.1 million federal grant to continue its efforts to get people out of shelters and into permanent housinIn recognition of the county's successful efforts in addressing homelessness, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today announced that the Department of Social Services (DSS) has been awardeda $ 2.1 million federal grant to continue its efforts to get people out of shelters and into permanent housinin addressing homelessness, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today announced that the Department of Social Services (DSS) has been awardeda $ 2.1 million federal grant to continue its efforts to get people out of shelters and into permanent housing.

Frank Commisso, Jr., an Albany common councilman who is running for mayor this year, has pledged to spearhead his own «audit of the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly,» adding in a blog post that «the many private and profitable companies being sheltered under the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly [must] finally pay their fair share toward the cost of city services.»

to spearhead his own «audit of the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly,» adding in a blog post that «the many private and profitable companies being sheltered under the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly [must] finally pay their fair share toward the cost of city services.»

He said that the city was paying more money to the Brooklyn - based Housing Bridge to run a Bronx shelter than a local nonprofit that provided the exact same services in the exact same building.

DNAinfo also reported last month that the city's Department of Homeless Services ignored repeated warnings about the nonprofit over the past few years — long before 1 - year - old Scylee Vayoh Ambrose and 2 - year - old Ibanez Ambrose were killed in one of its shelter apartments in The Bronx.

Records show that BEDCO — which has gotten $ 116 million in contracts over the past 12 years from the city to operate shelters and cluster - site housing — failed to disclose tax liens over the years to the Mayor's Office of Contract Services.

And the U.S. Attorney's office also is seeking all communications between the health department, NYCHA, the Department of Homeless Services and any city, state or federal governmental agency about conditions in public housing or homeless shelters.

In November of 2015, Bharara's office asked NYCHA and the Department of Homeless Services to produce a wealth of information about possible lead poisoning and unsafe conditions in NYCHA housing and city shelters, including any records of addresses where residents with elevated blood - lead levels have been identified, along with the date that the identification was madIn November of 2015, Bharara's office asked NYCHA and the Department of Homeless Services to produce a wealth of information about possible lead poisoning and unsafe conditions in NYCHA housing and city shelters, including any records of addresses where residents with elevated blood - lead levels have been identified, along with the date that the identification was madin NYCHA housing and city shelters, including any records of addresses where residents with elevated blood - lead levels have been identified, along with the date that the identification was made.

Cuomo's order requires that there be coordination between police agency resources and local social service providers in order to «conduct outreach to the homeless and to facilitate their transfer to sheltered locations,» according to the release.

Her 32 - year - old daughter, Sasha, has Down syndrome and receives Medicaid, which provides her with services, including transportation to sites, such as an animal shelter where she volunteers in her St. Lawrence County community.

Also at 9:30 a.m., NYC Council Members Paul Vallone and Corey Johnson will hold a press conference to call for the establishment of full service animal shelters in Queens and the Bronx; City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 4 p.m., the NYC Department of Homeless Services and advocates administer «Wrapped in Love» blanket distribution to families in shelter and their programs, St. Paul's Church, 113 E. 117th St., Manhattan.