Sentences with phrase «social challenges confronting»

The Fitzroy Valley experience clearly shows the transformative potential of community empowerment, community control and genuine engagement in addressing social challenges confronting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Ace broadcaster Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey Santana popularly referred to as, Abeiku Santana, has said Ghana lacks advanced social intervention programmes considering the level of poverty and social challenges confronting people in the country.

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Roost, which is free, focuses on what are probably the two biggest challenges small - business owners confront in using social networks.

shrewdly aligned with the American ethos of individual success and self - fulfillment, mainline churches have courageously taken unpopular stands, confronting head - on the diversity of American life, the depth of our social problems and the intellectual challenges to belief.

Some of these challenges are significant: campus ministries experience hurdles to campus access, Christian adoption and social service agencies confront regulations in tension with their missional convictions, and Christian educational institutions face threats to their accreditation and tax - exempt status.

Helping them catch the excitement of this social revolution and the challenging of the opportunity with which it confronts the churches, serve to enliven and motivate a task force.

Innovative life enrichment and marriage renewal programs in our churches, schools, and social agencies can help mid-years persons confront the challenge and the choices, the pain and the possibilities, and from this confrontation begins the adventure of new growth.

According to these criteria, then, a lukewarm church will display the following profile: it will be indifferent to its own theological confusions, uninterested in responding to challenges that confront its traditions, and isolated from the major problems and issues of its social environment.

This was a dream for me and a challenge to confront the social norm concept of excruciating pain in birth.

We are a global brand, and we want to be a force for change in both reducing our social and environmental impact and confronting head on the challenges facing the fashion industry now and in the future.

In Ghana, the day will be commemorated under the adapted theme «Economic empowerment of rural women: A tool for sustainable development in a changing world of work,» which according to the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisah Djaba, was chosen to help rural women and girls to achieve their ambitions and also challenge the negative traditional and socio - cultural practices, discrimination and difficulties that confront the rural woman by changing the world of work for all women in Ghana.

The President of the Archdiocesan Laity, Mr. Steve Olasupo in his welcome address while decrying various social vices and problems militating against various families across the world however recommended a more conscious and structured approach and formation, promotion and sustenance of family values and Basic Christian Community (BBC), in tackling the challenges confronting families across the globe.

Another challenge is confronting the tendency to identify complex social constructs, such as morality, with specific brain regions.

But those efforts can appear tiny in situations where students are immigrants whose parents moved them to a new country or come from low - income families and feel they have little power to confront multiple economic and social challenges.

On this, see the seminal study by ALSTON, P.: «Out of the Abyss: The Challenges Confronting the New UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights», Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.

They are confronted daily with adolescent, academic, and social challenges, and Steppingstone acknowledges this by catering to the whole student.

In this 2004 article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Ronald Heifetz, John Kania, and Mark Kramer show how foundations can confront society's most pressing challenges by exercising adaptive leadership to focus attention, generate positive distress, frame the issues, and mediate conflict among stakeholders.

Kerry Salvo, who attended the talk, said that as the senior projects manager at City Year, she also works to use social media to confront challenges in the education sector.

«Rick Lowe has empowered communities to use new forms of art - making in response to social challenges and Masami Teraoka employs his stunning artwork to confront larger global issues.

Confronted with these digital realities outside of a logical environment, we are challenged to reflect on the allure and contention inherent in digital representation, and what it means to view art in the age of social media.

Political, social and sexual themes run in concurrence within Mullan's relationship to his audience and in equal measures, the viewer is confronted with work that challenges ideas of perception and disorientation.

The new «Words» section brings readers the sharpest ideas on photography: Charlotte Cotton asks if institutions are stifling innovation; Geoffrey Batchen teases out what social media means for photography; Arthur Ou confronts the challenges of photographic education; and Robin Kesley investigates the key questions driving new scholarship today.

Reconnecting Artistic Practice and Humanities Research 25 April 2018, 10.30 am — 4 pm Furtherfield Commons Can a renewed dialogue between humanities scholars and artistic practice provide innovative perspectives to confront current social and cultural challenges?

How can we extend Basquiat's groundbreaking artistic approach to confront issues of racism, class struggle, social hypocrisy, while challenging perceptions and opening up new dialogues?

The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) brings together leaders from all sectors of society and regions of the world to «accelerate joint learning and promote integrated approaches that address the interconnected economic, social, and environmental challenges confronting the world.»

«Climate change will be a key issue that future citizens of Texas will need to understand and confront, and they deserve social studies textbooks that reinforce good science and prepare them for the challenges ahead,» she said in a statement.

«This book by Mike Hulme simply is vital for anyone interested in the global climate change debate and for those that seek challenging arguments in understanding the role of individual and social behaviour when confronted with perceived or real global risk issues.

The legal industry has some «wicked» problems to confront: the access to justice crisis, creating meaningful guardrails for social media and its potential to obliterate fact from misinformation, protecting democracy, and training future lawyers — as well as legal service providers — to ensure they have the competencies, experience, and tools necessary to tackle these challenges.

«When we are working in some territories that are challenging from a political or social point of view, this manifesto helps our leaders say «okay, we're confronted with this, but this is who we are.

Guided by the Jewish tradition of helping all people, JFCS provides comprehensive counseling and social services to those confronting life's challenges.

In addition to its influence on motivation and achievement, social cognitive theory posits that self - efficacy affects the level of stress and anxiety that people experience when confronted with a challenging task or situation.