Sentences with phrase «social assistance rates»

West Coast LEAF has issued a press release jointly with the BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot Legal Society, BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre, and Community Legal Assistance Society calling on the BC government to raise social assistance rates and address the resulting epidemic of food insecurity and the dire consequences for human health and safety.

Social assistance rates are far from providing a basic standard of living.

-- Increasing social assistance rates by one per cent for people on disability supports and welfare.

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These savings are magnified after high school because graduates earn higher wages, are less likely to need social and economic assistance, and have lower rates of incarceration than non-graduates.

Even though it's not overflowing with hospitals top - rated for women's healthcare or expansive shopping options, it does have an above - average percentage of jobs in educational services, healthcare, and social assistance, second only to Massachusetts (which didn't make this list).

These can include higher universal healthcare costs as people deal with the physical and mental health impacts of unresolved legal issues, increased reliance on social assistance, the price of incarceration, decreased workforce participation, and higher rates of homelessness, addiction and other socially - costly impacts.

Meanwhile, Metallic is involved in a separate legal challenge to services on reserves — in which 17 aboriginal groups in Atlantic Canada have filed a judicial review of planned federal cuts to First Nations social assistance to bring payments in line with provincial rates.

«We found that people with an assistance dog rated the social contact made as being as valuable as the actual work the dog had been trained to do.»

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

If parents request payments for supplemental reimbursement in addition to the standard adoption assistance payment rate, the adoption social worker provides relevant documentation describing ongoing, additional expenses that are paid above the current foster care rate and which are not expected to be absorbed by other resources, services, or third party payments following the final decree of adoption.

North Dakota categorizes mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists in the job segment «Health Care and Social Assistance in North Dakota,» projecting a 13.7 % growth rate for jobs in this category between the years 2006 and 2016.

Using a 7 - point Likert scale, participants rated the extent to which they received each of six social provisions over the previous three weeks: guidance, assistance, emotional closeness, social integration, reassurance of worth, and opportunity for nurturance.

Down payment assistance to eligible families that would otherwise not be able to afford home ownership Capital funding to develop rental at affordable rates Capital funding for essential repairs and renovations that improve the health and safety of residents living in social housing Rent supplements Grants to assist households who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with rent and utility arrears

The three - bar bar chart on the worksheet displays wages at the state level for nursing assistants by these three NAICS industry codes, and shows that the average wage rate for nursing assistants in California is lower for skilled nursing and CCRC / AL industry sectors than for health care and social assistance in aggregate.