Sentences with phrase «social disadvantage for»

This includes addressing other social determinants that contribute to social disadvantage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples such as unemployment, education, housing and community safety and focusing on building strong, resilient families, young people and communities.

Not exact matches

An emerging social enterprise, The Underground Collaborative, is seeking about $ 50,000 to provide employment pathways for Perth's homeless and disadvantaged amid plans to roll out a series of coffee carts across local parks.

They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

«Instead of helping some of the most disadvantaged children in our communities, Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals spent $ 182 million on a computer mess,» said Michelle Mungall, New Democrat spokesperson for social development.

It also improves labour - market access for people from disadvantaged communities who don't have the necessary social networks to help them get jobs.

Studies of periods of tight labour markets like the late 1990s and 1960s make it clear that the best social programme for disadvantaged workers is an economy where employers are struggling to fill vacancies.

The Republicans have positioned themselves so that religious people vote for them on social issues, while they pursue an economic agenda that disadvantages me, and probably you, and leads to a nation in which prosperity is reserved for the very few.

«The gospel», writes Thérèse Souga, a Catholic from Cameroun, «leads me to discover that Jesus bears a message of liberation for every human being and especially for those social categories that are most disadvantaged.

The social enterprise is designed to offer opportunities for disadvantaged women to build a future for themselves and their families.

We have secured safer conditions for working people and a meaningful social safety net for the most disadvantaged among us.

Even where it is, I take it as a very minor compensating disadvantage for the huge degree of social privilege we get just by being male.

For example, traditionally, such designations as «marginalization,» «underdevelopment,» «disadvantaged» social groups, and so forth have referred to cultural patterns of those who are not members of the white majority social group.

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

«The argument adopted by consumer groups in the USA is that access is not universal service - that the telephone should be priced at a level which makes it possible for disadvantaged groups to use it for social reasons rather than simply as an emergency service».

The main new project for which we now need bread is Together We Rise, a new project to help people living with mental health issues, and some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people facing social exclusion, to benefit from the therapeutic, social and employment opportunities offered by Real Bread making.

One could argue that the latter is inextricably linked to his «social activism» which began in 2002 with the establishment of Jamie's Kitchen (a chef apprenticeship program for disadvantaged youths which later transformed into the Fifteen Apprentice Program).

The children of young parents — who tend to be amongst the most disadvantaged — may benefit particularly from a positive relationship with their father: «When young men do not take on the responsibilities of fatherhood, it has serious consequences for the child's development, the mother's resources and consequent social costs» (ESRC 2002).

Heckman's thinking informs the book, which includes many examples of failing disadvantaged students who turned things around by acquiring character skills that substituted for the social safety net enjoyed by affluent students.

Nothing makes me happier than telling you about the inspiring people I get to «meet» through this blog and social media, and Alli Sosna is nothing if not inspiring: she teaches economically disadvantaged students how to cook wholesome, nutritious meals for four people on just $ 3.50 — the same amount families receive under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Aside from her flag making business, Mary also addressed social issues for disadvantaged women, including housing, employment and financial aid.

Liam Burns, National Union of Students (NUS) president said: «Ministers» claims that their proposals will put power in the hands of students have been shown to be spurious and it is increasingly clear that the course they are pursuing will actually restrict access to university for disadvantaged students, entrench existing social divides, and cost far more than expected.

[6] Correspondingly, classical liberals tended to favour cutting taxes for the poorest in order to increase opportunity, contrasting with social liberals, who would rather see higher spending on public services and the disadvantaged in order to reduce income inequality.

Dr Jeremy Kendall of the University of Kent points out that the value of volunteering now enjoys great recognition in both the UK and Europe - including the European Union (EU), the European Social Fund for example has long recognised voluntary activity as a positive outcome especially for disadvantaged groups.

Factors such as the way in which parents bring up their offspring (parenting, diet, cognitive inputs) or experience of social disadvantages seem to have implications for how genes manifest themselves in later life.»

He said Tower Hamlets was one of the worst areas for child poverty and the school, opening next year, aimed to tackle «social disadvantage and challenge the status quo».

In addition to being an organizer and consultant for the Jumpstart Core Curriculum Institute (JCCI), a program founded by Leslie Brown that develops strategies for improving literacy, science, math, technology, and social - science skills among disadvantaged minority students in grades K - 12, I teach chemistry to high school students at the University of South Carolina?s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer Program.

«Many cities have social services like recreation centers that are targeted for disadvantaged neighborhoods,» Browning said.

The program is designed for students from disadvantaged background who are interested in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health - related research.

The Department for Education has just published its national plan to improve social mobility in young people; at the heart of their strategy is the ambition to close the language gap that develops between the most and the least disadvantaged children in our society.

«Poverty and the many stresses that come with social disadvantage have long been linked to cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact on heart health for people from a broad range of economic and cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Research at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.

The «Future of Dating 2050» report (covered by GDI here and here) revealed an imminent rise in the mean age of daters, a relaxing of social attitudes regarding non-traditional romantic arrangements, and the potential rise of technology as a relationship substitute for the financially disadvantaged youth.

For youth with intellectual disabilities, as well as other youth at physical, social, or emotional disadvantage, the situation is particularly dire.

This «schooling without learning» is a wasted opportunity, the report argues — widening social gaps for already disadvantaged children, for whom the promise of education was meant to offer much greater access to good jobs, higher wages, better health, and lifelong security.

Social mobility The issue of social mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrSocial mobility The issue of social mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrsocial mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrsocial mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The equity issue, then, seems to matter a great deal to disadvantaged parents, and they appear to connect it to private - school choice in a way that is entirely consistent with the argument voucher advocates have been making for the past decade: that choice is a way of promoting social equity.

Special education vouchers have a political advantage that vouchers for low - income students lack: they can benefit not only the poverty - stricken disadvantaged, almost never a politically potent interest group, but also anyone who has a child with disabilities, a population that crosses all social and economic boundaries.

Some schools, especially in low socioeconomic areas, consider themselves «welfare» rather than «academic» schools and believe that the best thing they can do for their disadvantaged clientele is to teach them social and life skills, give them a grounding in the «basics» and make them feel better about themselves.

In an «equitable» school system, students» special needs and unequal socioeconomic backgrounds are recognised and resources (for example, teaching expertise) are distributed unequally in an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstances.

You wrote: «In an «equitable» school system, students» special needs and unequal socioeconomic backgrounds are recognised and resources (for example, teaching expertise) are distributed unequally in an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstances.

Civil society has a critical role to play in social mobilization, raising public awareness, bringing marginalized voices to the centre, holding governments to account for their commitments, by scrutinizing spending, ensuring transparency in governance and budgeting, and developing innovative approaches to help advance the right to education, especially for the most disadvantaged.

Rather, like other antibureaucrats on the Left, Fuller faults the bureaucracy for preserving the social and education disadvantages of poor and minority students.

A. Grassroots community organizing has been long used as a tool for disadvantaged people to gain power to affect the practice of institutions in political and social life.

The rules for Even Start, which is to provide educational and other social services to disadvantaged children and their parents, specifies that participating children must reside in an elementary - school attendance area eligible for Chapter 1 compensatory education.

For example, through subtle acts of exclusion, as bystanders who ignore racist incidents, or through social practices and structures that discriminate and disadvantage different ethnic and cultural groups.

I would like to see these eminent experts embed themselves in schools for just one terms in areas of social economic disadvantage to see if they think their ideas could work.

Reiterating Education Minister Nick Gibb's call for greater social mobility, Wilshaw said it was a «moral outrage» that independent schools were failing to do more to help disadvantaged children in neighbouring state schools.

E.D. Hirsch, Jr., has long been making the social justice case for giving disadvantaged children access to the knowledge and language that have long been assumed by the privileged and powerful.

Large - scale initiatives, such as the community schools movement, are also designed to increase disadvantaged families» involvement in school by making the school a hub of social services for the neighborhood.

For one thing, it assumes the distribution of social advantage is identical in all countries, when it can hardly be the case that the same percentage of Swiss and Dutch children are socially disadvantaged as children in Poland and Hungary.

Westminster, in the top 10 for funding, is rated as giving its disadvantaged young people the highest chance of social mobility in the country.