Sentences with phrase «social barriers as»

These children and their families may face a number of economic and social barriers as they grow and develop in their new surroundings.

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That's already a major barrier to people seeking treatment in the first place (as is a dearth of affordable treatment options); but it can be magnified by a conviction and incarceration, which exacerbate a vicious cycle of lackluster employment opportunities, social exclusion, and continued crime and addiction.

I think we're on the cusp of a generation of government, political and social leadership that come from the «outside» as barriers of entry to these fields are lowered and we see more competitive elections, which will hopefully be more content - driven.

«We're a for - profit venture fund but we have this social mission as well where we're trying to break down these barriers because we think thats the greatest way to add value for people.»

So long as there are other athletic shoes available (and the lack of entry barriers ensures that there will be), Nike and Adidas will have to compete on quality, price, and social responsibility, irrespective of a merger.

There are several social media intricacies that make it unique, such as the fact that it allows proactive promotion, and reactive promotion, both relatively instantly without needing to bust through concrete barriers.

He points out that if social media is to achieve its real potential in India, then the industry needs to bridge the regional language barrier and add to the English - speaking market, which as he rightly points out is limited at about 200 million.

Although Catholics had ranked as the nation's largest religious denomination since 1890, social, linguistic, educational, and cultural barriers slowed their literary development.

Further, the draft document mandated states to override parental prerogatives (known, in UN-speak, as «social barriers to sexual and reproductive health information and care») in the matter of adolescent sexual education.

He broke down social barriers, touching those who had been declared «untouchable,» teaching women as their rabbi, and eating and drinking with «sinners.»

Once raised to the status of a social trend, obvious examples of evangelicalism's existence and influence were frequently featured as news items, thus reinforcing the public perception and lowering the barriers of skepticism which usually accompany new movements.

What can be said with certainty is that the fear of intermarriage, erected as a barrier to social fellowship, does harm and thwarts constructive effort far in excess of the actual justification of such a fear.

Six good practice «taster sessions» from our conference At the Fatherhood Institute's Engaging fathers as partners conference in central London on Thursday 11 November 2010: Martin Clement, team manager from the Children in Need service at Islington Children's Services talked about the «Breaking down barriers» project, which is attempting to bring fathers to the fore in social work practice.

Unfortunately, many parents face obstacles — such as those caused by stress, language barriers, geographic and social isolation, poverty, and their own adverse childhood experiences that leave them without a positive parenting model — that impacts their ability to fully support their baby's development during these critical years.

Breastfeeding is often seen and presented as a social taboo, difficult to establish and has multiple barriers in the workplace and community.

As highlighted in WBTi's Indicator 7 (communication and information) which calls for a national communications strategy around infant feeding, and for promotional activities including World Breastfeeding Week, we are directly exploring new ways to use communication strategies, that are women - led, to address the cultural barriers to breastfeeding in the UK, through an inclusive social media campaign.

«We need to remove every possible social barrier so babies can get the nutrition they need and women can go about their lives,» said Orentlicher, a physician as well as a Democratic legislator.

As a social worker I so love the idea of removing barriers to potty independence.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

The challenges digital teams face with social listening, such as integrating social insights into email and barriers to engaging people in the moment

When people talk about the promise of social media, they often praise tools like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for their ability to connect people, to remove barriers, to let us tell our own stories unfiltered and unmediated — to show us as we are.

The UFT began its Community Learning Schools Initiative in 2012 as a way to help schools overcome the academic, social and emotional barriers that poverty creates for too many New York City students.

While it is true that women face social barriers, as they do in much of the world, young women nonetheless comprise more than half of undergraduate enrollment in some science, technology and medical courses at major Arab universities.

Possibly as a result of these societal barriers, since 1980 the Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe have both experienced increases in maternal mortality rates — in Zimbabwe deaths have jumped by 5.5 percent each year in the past two decades, in part because of low female social status and ongoing political conflict.

The cost savings included use of skin barriers and other ostomy care accessories, medications, emergency department and hospital visits, as well as «social costs» such as missed work or appointments.

Levine said she saw Clark as a mentor and someone who thought a lot about science policy leadership, including «the challenges, barriers and opportunities for women in science and her deep appreciation of the social and behavioral sciences.»

«By aligning with patients» expectations, removing unnecessary barriers, such as cost and access, and engaging patients» social and support networks, we can develop patient - centered clinical programs that better serve diverse groups of cancer patients regardless of sex, race, and education levels,» Bauml said.

Wellington, Colo., is Dolan's case study, in which he evaluates the economic, social, legal, and technological barriers that were overcome in order to use produced water as a source of water for agriculture.

of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to understand how personal factors including women's social norms, perceived beliefs, social support and personal barriers such as untreated mental health, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and health system factors, including whether women receive HIV and obstetric care together or separately, contribute to HIV outcomes.

These findings highlight potentially useful strategies given specific social — ecological contexts, as well as key barriers and specific information gaps requiring further research and actions.

In theory, social media is meant to connect us, but in reality, it acts as a barrier.

She is involved with and an advocate for community partnerships aimed at overcoming the barriers of access to mental health services as a means of addressing social justice issues that are prominent in our society.

We eliminate the social barrier in meeting mature women, and make the experience as fun and enjoyable as possible.

We eliminate the social barrier in dating older men, and make the experience as fun and enjoyable as possible.

It also helps people that have social barriers and perhaps aren't as confident as they would like to be.

2 Of course, retired singles tend to have cemented social circles, which acts as yet another barrier to social fluidity.

Regardless of how effective the film was in removing barriers toward the horror via its commitment to realism, Scrapbook would nonetheless be received as an artifice by viewers due to the formal and social arrangements, such as credit sequences and watching the film on a tape which had either been bought or rented.

So it's understandable why government and foundation officials have started giving the higher education system the «reform treatment» that was once reserved for our K — 12 system; if it's blocking opportunities for young people — especially low - income young people, as Susan Dynarski argued last week — then removing those barriers should be a top priority for U.S. social and education policy.

Three big factors will increasingly differentiate student outcomes: (1) development of students» self - motivation (2) effectiveness addressing learning barriers, like time - management, emotional disruptions, and social pressures that affect learning even among advantaged children; and (3) students» higher - order capabilities like analytical, conceptual and creative thinking, especially as applied to solve real problems.»

That feature is what lost the support of longtime social - justice warrior (and founder of the pro school choice Black Alliance for Educational Options) Howard Fuller, who in July shocked many allies by stating his opposition to the Nevada plan: «Parental choice should be used principally as a tool to empower communities that face systemic barriers to greater educational and economic opportunities... I could never approve of a plan that would give those with existing advantages even greater means to leverage the limited number of private school options, to the detriment of low - income families.»

As a result, students of different nationalities face less of a cultural barrier which, in turn, breaks down any social barriers.Everyone mixes with everyone.

Children face barriers because of their parents» undocumented status, often related to poverty, fears of deportation, and more, while undocumented youth themselves face increasing barriers to social mobility as they enter adolescence and hope to obtain driver's licenses, afterschool work, and financial aid for college.

Community schools, or full - service schools, address the barriers to learning created by social problems, such as poverty, that affect students» home life and well - being.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

Julayne Virgil is the CEO of Girls Inc. of Alameda County where she leads the investment in thousands of girls in grades K - 12 in the East Bay as they navigate gender, economic, social and racial barriers to realize their full potential and to become the strong, smart and bold leaders of tomorrow.

Barriers continue to exist in technology infusion in teacher education programs as well as integrating technology in social studies classrooms.

The model is based on the idea that diagnosing the social and emotional needs of children and their families and then alleviating barriers such as hunger, mental health issues and poor eyesight will make academic success more attainable.

Worthwhile reading — Opening Doors, Breaking Down Barriers: A Strategy for Social Mobility (2011, p. 51)-- «Not knowing how to achieve your ambitions can be as damaging as not having those ambitions at all.

As long as homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictionAs long as homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictionas homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictions.

By removing this barrier, we aim to improve older adults» access to timely, current information, as well as increase their social connectedness with the larger San Mateo County community.