Sentences with phrase «social intervention at»

Nalani's vision for AYLE continues to evolve, even as he prepares to return to the United States to begin doctoral studies in psychology and social intervention at New York University.

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Thus, a new and healthy inequality will reappear and will give a new dynamism to the economies of developed countries sick of the slumpflation, sickness coming from the combined inheritance of policies inspired by Keynes and Beveridge, i.e. of the anti-cycle intervention of the State (aiming at cushioning) and of the social redistribution.

Lynn Wilkie, dedicated lead worker at Stoke FIP, explains that practice managers [senior social workers] assess whether a family meets the criteria for FIP intervention.

Though you can not completely eliminate your teenager's chances for depression, consider whether your child participates in physical and extracurricular activities, maintains a positive social life and understands how to cope with stress, suggests John Curry, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Center for the Study of Suicide Prevention and Intervention at Duke University in Durham.

And Dr Jonathan Scourfield at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences is undertaking a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial of a training intervention to improve the engagement of fathers in the child protection system.

She was formerly a professor of family and human development at Arizona State University, where she developed and evaluated social - emotional learning curricula for early childhood classrooms and instructed courses in early intervention, child development, and gender studies.

In a systematic review of school - based interventions aimed at modifying knowledge, attitudes, social norms and intentions to breastfeed, researchers concluded that «Overall, these studies demonstrated positive effects on perceptions and attitudes toward breastfeeding and increased behavioral intention of breastfeeding later in life.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

Intervention: 3 home visits at 5, 10 and 20 days postpartum by a social assistant or nutritionist.

One of the most enterprising financial establishments in the country, uniBank (Ghana) Limited, having made an immense contribution in providing pivotal social interventions through its agile CSR commitments, has again donated substantial support, including a health post, marketplace, a cow, 50 bags of rice, 25 bags of sugar, cartons of drinks and bottled water, etc. to the Muslim community at the Hajj Village in an estimated amount of Two Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH cents 275,000.00).

Robert Walker is Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention.

On social interventions, he said he provided 100 bags of cement for rehabilitation of churches and mosques, purchased 10 packets of roofing sheets each for some 4 communities (Konkomada, Batiyok, Kpalsako - Champiani - Susudi and Basyonde), ensured absorption of all primary schools in the constituency into the Ghana School Feeding Programme with 90 caterers engaged, supported 7 elders to perform the the Holy Pilgrimage to Mecca (the Hajj) and constructed some market structures at Bulpielise and Nagani.

State and county leaders, meanwhile, have poured millions of dollars into social services and gang - intervention programs aimed at eliminating MS - 13's most important asset, its recruits.

The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), supports other findings that interventions aimed at improving individuals» wellbeing and quality of life can be far more effective if they are carried out among groups of people in ways that generate a strong sense of group identity.

Maame Hasford said recently when they demonstrated at the Ministry of Gender and Social Intervention, the sector minister, Ms Otiko Afisah Djaba apologized for the undue delay in paying the money.

It was at this period Ghanaians saw so many social intervention programs which improved their living standards among them are the NHIS, School Feeding program, Capitation and many more.

The gathering also x-rayed Osun's schools feeding system, a social democracy classic, and signature South West intervention, even at the best of times; and an imperative, even at the worst.

Okunmadewa explained that the YESSO programme was a welfarist intervention programme of the World Bank aimed at reducing poverty by allowing poor people access to increased opportunities for youth employment and social service delivery.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Dutse, inaugurated the Jigawa State Social Intervention Programme meant to empower communities at polling unit level.

He argued that the lack of data on households with the current system makes social intervention programmes targeted at the vulnerable difficulty since there is no data as to who is poor and in which community.

«He sees limits on what the voluntary sector, social enterprises and community groups can do... Gordon Brown looks at area where the state has failed and thinks the answer is more state intervention, more of the same.

Speaking at the opening of the Ghangeria Rising Conference in Accra on Thursday, 10 May 2018, Dr Bawumia entreated Nigerian investors to invest in government's social intervention...

To support the development of young students — particularly in low - income schools, which are at risk for having less effective teachers and less engaged students — researchers are looking to classroom interventions focused on social - emotional learning.

«Intervention to reduce or eliminate spanking has the potential to contribute to the well - being of families and children who are at - risk of becoming involved with the (social services) system,» Lee said.

Drawing from education research on self - regulated learning and evidence from social psychology on effective approaches to interventions, Chen and colleagues developed a brief exercise for students aimed at guiding their thinking about how they use learning resources.

As the intervention continues, the parent is able keep the child engaged in «back - and - forth» social interactions for several exchanges at a time.

This took place with the aid of a standardized questionnaire (on the basis of a Social Responsiveness Scale — SRS), in which 65 behaviour patterns were evaluated by the parents before the start of group therapy, at the end of the intervention as well as three months after the end of the intervention in order to measure stability.

Presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2017 and published in The Lancet, the report also highlights the beneficial effects of nonpharmacologic interventions such as social contact and exercise for people with dementia.

In this article, we'll take a quick look at the top 9 essential competencies that a learning designer is required to possess for designing effective informal / social learning interventions for today's workplaces.

Jones, who directs the Ecological Approach to Social Emotional Learning (EASEL) Laboratory at HGSE, says she's motivated in part by the paucity of free, adaptable interventions for schools to access and employ.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

In the Prevention Science and Practice (PSP) Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, you will explore the many risk and protective influences on child and adolescent development, and learn how to design strengths - based interventions that promote well - being across academic, social - emotional, and health domains.

Teachers and socioemotional learning specialists at Anchorage School District and Cleveland Metropolitan School District have years of experience implementing social and emotional learning curriculum, and Cleveland educators highly recommend the Pre-Referral Intervention Manual (McCarney & Wunderlich, 2006) as an ongoing invaluable resource.

In one, researchers examined how SEL intervention programs (such as social skills training, parent training with home visits, peer coaching, reading tutoring, and classroom social - emotional curricula) for kindergarten students impacted their adult lives, and found that these programs led to 10 % (59 % vs. 69 % for the control group) fewer psychological, behavioral, or substance abuse problems at the age of 25 (Dodge et al., 2014).

Currently, she is the principal investigator of an experimental evaluation of the 4Rs Program — a universal school - based intervention designed to integrate social - emotional learning and literacy development — funded by National Institute of Mental Health, the Institute for Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education, as well as by the William T. Grant Foundation.

the State designated performance level on a State elementary assessment in social studies administered prior to the 2010 - 2011 school year; provided that beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, at which time a State elementary assessment in social studies shall no longer be administered, a school shall provide academic intervention services when students are determined to be at risk of not achieving State learning standards in social studies pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph;

Our interventions originate from innovative, fast - cycle experiments conducted by Dr. Todd Rogers and the Student Social Support R&D Lab at Harvard University.

Drawing from education research on self - regulated learning and evidence from social psychology on effective approaches to interventions, Chen and colleagues developed a brief exercise for students aimed at guiding their thinking about how they use learning resources.

Each such employee shall be required to complete at least one training course in school violence prevention and intervention, which shall consist of at least two clock hours of training that includes but is not limited to, study in the warning signs within a developmental and social context that relate to violence and other troubling behaviors in children; the statutes, regulations, and policies relating to a safe nonviolent school climate; effective classroom management techniques and other academic supports that promote a nonviolent school climate and enhance learning; the integration of social and problem solving skill development for students within the regular curriculum; intervention techniques designed to address a school violence situation; and how to participate in an effective school / community referral process for students exhibiting violent behavior.

One of the aims of the research lab he founded, the Student Social Support R&D Lab at Harvard, is to develop and evaluate scalable interventions that leverage positive communications and behavioral science insights to reduce chronic absenteeism.

But they maintain that these interventions should focus on noncognitive outcomes, such as social skills, work habits, and motivation, which are more malleable at that age than cognitive skills.

Children develop conflict resolution strategies far before adolescence, and there is a strong need for Lesson One's social - emotional awareness intervention targeted at students in grades K - 6.

There is a new push for social - emotional learning interventions at the elementary level.

Social and emotional interventions can also be administered universally, in small groups, individually, or at home.

MPS, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee and City Year Milwaukee are partnering to provide early literacy interventions, targeted mathematics programming and social - emotional learning at four MPS schools: Carver Academy, James Madison Academic Campus, Alexander Mitchell Integrated Arts School and Rogers Street Academy.

She has been a visiting scholar at the National Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (New Zealand), the Kurt Lewin Institute (Netherlands), the Marburg Center for Conflict Studies (Germany), the Center for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion (Chile), and the International Graduate College on Conflict and Cooperation (Germany, UK, Belgium), where she has delivered lectures and taught workshops on prejudice reduction and intervention.

The vast majority of schools use some form of social - emotional and behavioral screening data to identify students in need of individual or small group interventions (at either Tier 2 or 3).

Social and emotional interventions can also be administered universally, individually, in small groups, or at home.

Some schools have many students exhibiting social, emotional and behavioral risks that warrant schoolwide intervention, while other schools may address a smaller number of at - risk students through supplemental tiered supports.

In my work as a social studies teacher educator at a large southeastern U.S. research university, I was tasked with creating interventions and additions in the teacher education experience by using geospatial technologies in the existing context of our program.