Sentences with phrase «skills based support»

We offer a dynamic weekly cognitive skills based support group structured to meet the specific needs of fathers experiencing trauma, loss, and change associated with separation and divorce.

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Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

Social impact «residents» that have been placed in coworking centres by All Good Work include BASE, which develops co-living residences for young adults with learning differences; RiF, which supports refugees and asylum seekers arriving in New York City; and AdaptLab — a team that helps filmmakers with autism and learning differences to work on productions and gain valuable skills for sustainable employment.

As a country, it is vital that we support businesses and develop the skill base required so that other firms can follow James Cropper's example.

The company's San Juan - based Restaurant Support Center provides training and programs aimed at giving employees the skills they need.

In fact, I vehemently wish more paediatric nurses would undertake the qualification, since paediatrics is the one area where the Baby Friendly Initiative staff training has not been universally embedded, and some skilled, evidence based support is sorely needed.

In Scotland, where wide variations in surgical deliveries have been found between units, four evidence based recommendations have been prioritised: clinicians and women should regard trial of labour as the norm after a previous caesarean; offering external cephalic version to women at term if their baby is breech; monitoring and regularly reviewing caesarean data with support for staff; and one to one midwifery care for all women in labour.20 The National Childbirth Trust — a UK parents organisation — is concerned about medicalisation and erosion of midwifery skills and confidence.

Midwives should be supported by local policy to provide evidence based, normal birth practice, and determine their client base based on their knowledge, skill, and assessment.

PRIDE is a competency - based model and is based on the belief that resource families need to have special strengths, knowledge and skills, as well as a community of supports in order to be successful as foster care or adoptive families.

We are there every step of the way, supporting YOUR choices while offering evidence based information, knowledge and skills to ensure you can make informed decisions.

• Helping mothers develop skills and techniques to ensure breastfeeding goes well • Providing expertise in the management of breastfeeding challenges • Training other healthcare workers using current evidence based knowledge • Collaborating with other healthcare workers to meet the family's needs • Investigating and participating in research • Educating policy makers on the economic and health benefits of breastfeeding • Advocating for services to support breastfeeding

and Parent - Child Attachment Play An evidence - based 3 - month parent programme that supports parents / carers in developing skills to improve and strengthen positive and secure attachment relationships with their child / ren.

The 2 - day PSI Certificate of Completion Course, taught by experienced and engaging faculty, is a thorough and evidence - based curriculum designed for nurses, physicians, social workers, mental health providers, childbirth professionals, social support providers, or anyone interested in learning skills and knowledge for assessment and treatment of perinatal mood disorders.

Because of the move to «product - based» solutions, funding is already drying up for most infant and young child feeding support programs and for community - based approaches that teach and promote skills to make nutritious family foods from local indigenous ingredients.

The Board of Directors moved forward with energy and determination to strengthen the Alliance's mission to build and sustain a reflective, skilled, culturally competent, and relationship - based workforce that supports infants, young children, and their families.

Having another credential available to teach skills for supporting breastfeeding only serves to help us reach more women, and their babies with evidence - based, quality support.

Community - based parent support programs are based on the belief that when parents receive parenting support as well as other supports and resources, they are more likely to feel better about themselves and their parenting abilities, and in turn interact with their children in responsive and supportive ways enhancing the development of their children.3 Bronfenbrenner, 16 Cochran, 17 and others18, 19 have noted that parenting knowledge and skills are learned and strengthened by the kinds of help and assistance provided by informal and formal social support network members.

Lamaze Evidence - Based Nursing Care: Labor Support Skills is a one - day workshop designed for nurse managers, midwives, staff nurses and other health care providers who care for women.

The EMPower Training initiative is designed to support hospitals by improving knowledge and skills in evidence - based maternity practices supportive of optimal infant nutrition.

The workshop is intensive, interactive and skills - based with the goal of increasing competence in providing empirically - supported treatment of SM to professionals with beginner and intermediate exposure and skills in assessing and treating SM.

Malang Fofana, the head of the Gambia delegation, expressed the concerns of many saying, «Because of the move to «product - based» solutions, funding is already drying up for most infant and young child feeding support programs and for community - based approaches that teach and promote skills to make nutritious family foods from local indigenous ingredients.

We have been calling for agreed five year funding settlements options based on a core package of economic powers and the option for individual cities to agree devolved funding for employment, skills, business support, housing and transport.

The WFP says its backing will bring Sanders» campaign the support of the party's activist base and skilled operatives, which will no doubt come in handy for the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary — both right around the corner.

She said government planned to set up Business Support Services to provide take - off base for students of its Vocational Skills Programmes and for women that want to set up businesses.

Renovator Training Supports Local Employment «Joint Initiative Partners MVCC, LPP and Workforce Development» Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced a free training program designed to provide as many as ten persons with construction experience who are currently unemployed the necessary skills to work on pre-1978 built houses that may have lead - based paints.

The faith - based rehabilitation program offers skills training, education, and other support to help its residents.

The objective of Project Hope is to support Syrian refugee children in Turkey by providing them with digital game - based education opportunities to improve Turkish language proficiency, executive functions, and coding skills while decreasing their sense of despair and increasing hope.

Celldance is a program supported by the ASCB Public Information Committee to promote public engagement and education in cell biology, as well as to help cell biologists develop their skills in video - based science communication and storytelling.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

Skills - based program and emotional support.

Mindfulness - Based Emotion Regulation The following emotional regulation practices (also called emotional balance skills) have been supported by over 2500 years of mindfulness training and current psychological research on human emotions.

It can handle everything from gamification and offline access to multi-language support and skill - based learning paths.

I think teachers make choices about classroom content based on what ideas and skills are important for children and what they can offer by way of support for reasoning and learning, and without a feeling for Science, they tend to focus elsewhere.

While many schools are now emphasizing SEL, much of the work to build self - regulation skills starts at home — and few programs have existed to support home - and school - based learning in alignment.

They read a novel about life in urban America, they write letters to city council members and state representatives, the compile statistics to support their arguments in their letters; in short, they use their discipline - based skills of scientific inquiry, math, literacy, social studies and health to do what people in the real world do — synthesize the skills and knowledge in a meaningful way.

Jacobs describes how Summit Public schools, a charter school network known for «an approach that emphasizes both project - based and self - paced learning as well as the development of cognitive skills» has been sharing its model with schools around the countroy for free with support from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Research has shown that performance - based assessment provides a means to assess higher - order thinking skills and helps teachers and principals support students in developing a deeper understanding of content.

Busy Bees provides quality support and training to all its staff on a continual basis, helping to improve individuals» own technical and organisational skills to provide the overall service that every parent looks for when seeking out a place of security and care to send their children.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

Important places for me to stop along my path include: undergraduate professor in a college - based teacher education program, professional development specialist for teacher collaborations, and director of community - based learning center that uses culturally responsive arts for academic support and life skills.

For example, the blueprint for the next iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (current version is the No Child Left Behind Act, 2002) proposes more accountability - based emphasis on assessment and instruction that support content learning and higher - order skills.

In accord with research - based best practices for improving text - comprehension and reasoning skills, College Prep's discussion practices emphasize acquiring and retrieving multiple meanings from the text, finding the appropriate evidence to support that point of view, and letting students steer the discussion.

With the innate enjoyment that children have for movement and play - based learning, it is essential that HPE be supported through every primary school environment to ensure that every student has the skills, knowledge and understandings to be engaged, confident and capable learners, writes Alison Turner, ACHPER National Executive Director.

To support students in developing skills in communication and recognizing perspectives, all four of the district's international elementary schools implement two related research - based social and emotional learning curricula: Second Step (grades K - 2) and Steps to Respect (grades 3 - 5).

With the innate enjoyment that children have for movement and play - based learning, it is essential that HPE be supported through every school environment to ensure that every student has the skills, knowledge and understandings to be engaged, confident and capable learners.

A growing body of academic research supports the use of project - based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores.

In addition, because Summit has a project - based learning model, our class time is devoted to students working on projects that support deep understanding of the content and of cognitive skills.

Included in the pack are checklists for: - Questioning - Differentiation - Utilising Resources (including support staff)- Engagement - Building Literacy Skills - Planning and Expectations - Building Learning Power - A blank template for you to design your own based upon your own focus Note: The checklists offer a range of desirable strategies that teachers should look to implement over time - it would be damaging to expect teachers to utilise each of these strategies in every lesson!

Dozens of studies of afterschool programs repeatedly underscore the powerful impact of supporting a range of positive learning outcomes, including academic achievement, by affording children and youth opportunities to practice new skills through hands - on, experiential learning in project - based after school programs.

This is a PDF multisensory Orton Gillingham based resource that has been designed to support decoding, reading fluency, spelling, writing development; visual processing and memory building skills.