Sentences with phrase «social intervention programme»

The NHIS has about 11.3 million members, and is a social intervention programme which provides financial risk protection against out - of - pocket healthcare expenditure for all residents in Ghana.

According to him, every sector of the Ghanaian economy, over the last 8 years, has witnessed constant decline, coupled with the collapse of every social intervention programme implemented by the Kufuor...

His Minister of State for Budget, Ahmed said that the social intervention programme encountered teething problems even as she believed that the issues would be completely solved in the 2017 budget to meet the objective of the scheme.

Any wonder he conveniently ignored data on universal access to basic education, gender parity, time on task, social intervention programmes, scholarships, gross enrollment, text book to pupil ratio, pupil teacher ratio, TVET reforms, WASSCE awards, university rankings just to mention a few.

The CCG has, meanwhile, commended the current administration for its resolve to better the lots of Ghanaians through the laudable social intervention programmes.

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.

The Upper East Region will soon have a register of all vulnerable groups and households to guide the execution of government social intervention programmes.

He repeated the pledge to move quickly to restore teacher trainee allowances and bring back to life collapsing social intervention programmes introduced by the NPP under President John Agyekum Kufuor.

«We are not blind on these laudable achievement and as a matter of fact, this has been the basis of our tour to the state as this visit would further help our organisation and other participating states on the need to expand their nets in prioritising the welfare of their people through social intervention programmes.

According to her, UNICEF is proud and privileged to have come to Osun state in a bid to study and tap from the wealth of experience of Mr Governor on the success of his social intervention programmes.

Asamoah Gyan has helped in several philanthropical works in his home country, Ghana, having spent over GHC 2 million cedis in community and social intervention programmes.

The party among other things promised to build factories in every district in Ghana as well as make available to each constituency an amount of $ 1 million as part of its social intervention programmes when given the opportunity to govern the country.

«So, as our government is keen on the need to eradicate unemployment from the system, we are assuring that the current administration would not relent to ensure that every Nigerian is empowered to feed his or her self through our numerous social intervention programmes.

«Another good area is your various social intervention programmes, you are helping in creating jobs and wealth, no wonder people always come to your state to learn,» The American envoy noted.

The Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, thanked the US government for alleviating the plight of the rural poor through its social intervention programmes under the auspices of the USAID and its allies.

Rev. Father Campbell also lauded government on the implementation of some social intervention programmes such as Planting for Food and Jobs, and the 1 - District -1-Factory initiative, adding that «we are very interested in these programmes because of their employment generation potential, especially for our youth».

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.

Dr. Bawumia said the NDC government in spite of the high borrowing and discovery of oil, can not sustain the social intervention programmes the NPP initiated under the erstwhile President John Kufour.

He said apart from these social intervention programmes, the NPP administration also transformed the economy «by improving on our currency, the strength of our cedi, the banking system and the private sector making sure that the environment was good for businesses to flourish.»

In this regard, Five Hundred Billion Naira has been appropriated in the 2016 budget for social intervention programmes in five key areas.

According to Mr. Cudjoe, MASLOC and its related social intervention programmes often «tend to become scams.»

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«We also continued with our programmes and critical social intervention albeit on a reduced scale.

Mr Armah - Frempong stated that last year a substantial number of farmers in the District registered with the programme, a laudable social intervention instituted by the President.

John Kufuor oversaw the setting up of the National Health Insurance Scheme to replace the existent cash - and - carry system, institutionalised the capitation grant, started the school feeding programme, launched the Microfinance and small loans program and introduced the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Program, among other social interventions.

The UNICEF Nigeria Chief of Field Offices and Coordination who described social protection programmes as panacea to poverty reduction, said the initiative remains the only way to reach out to the people most especially the vulnerable who deserved all round intervention of socio - economic life.

Frank Torblu further added that though the NHIS is a social policy intervention programme, «the premium must be reasonably realistic to the extent that the system can be supported.»

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.

The Deputy Minister for Communications, Vincent Odotei Sowah, has assured that government is working tirelessly to ensure the successful implementation of the Free Senior High School programme, which is the biggest social intervention in many years.

The 2017 Budget estimates retains the allocation of N500 billion to the Special Intervention programme consisting of the Home - grown School Feeding Programme, Government Economic Empowerment programme, N - Power Job Creation Programme to provide loans for traders and artisans, Conditional Cash Transfers to the poorest families and the new Family Homes Fund (social housing scheme).

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He said: «We know that early intervention is crucial but many local authorities have repeatedly had their budgets slashed on things like social workers, support programmes for parents, educational psychologists and targeted mental health services in schools.

Other approaches, such as Parental engagement and Social and emotional learning programmes, are often associated with reported improvements in school ethos or discipline, but are not included in this summary which is limited to interventions that focus directly on behaviour.

Two world wars had left the electorate demanding fundamental changes to society, reflected in the victory of Attlee's government with its programme of social reforms requiring unprecedented levels of state intervention.

The parenting intervention consisted of 12 group - based sessions lasting on average about 1 — 2 hours, combining culturally tailored societal information with the Connect parenting support programme, which has been described elsewhere.33 The first two sessions were designed based on results from earlier findings on qualitative focus group discussions.3 The aim of the culturally tailored societal information aspect of the intervention was to give Somali - born parents an introduction on parenting styles, the rights of the child, the family legal system in relation to parenting and the goal of the work of social services with children and family.

How best to structure these is an open question; recent findings from Rites of Passage, an early intervention programme for Aboriginal young people which includes resilience - building camps and increasing access to mental health services, suggest that boys may be more difficult than girls to engage in social and emotional well - being programmes (Robinson R, Schuster L, Williamson A. Rites of Passage: evaluation if a pilot study if an early intervention program for Aboriginal young people.

Methods of intervention can include networking, health promotion, social education and parenting programmes.

The views and perceptions of families will be gained by interviewing 12 intervention group parents representing different cultural and social backgrounds and different experiences (positive and negative) after the programme to gather information on most and least valued aspects of programme, rating of the facilitators, and ways of improving the programme.

The Trust began in 2006 and focuses on the emotional and social wellbeing of infants and children providing the evidence - based Incredible Years Parenting programme, Fostering Changes a parenting programme for foster parents and WWW intervention training.

Conversely it is likely that some parents, particularly those living in the most stressful social circumstances, will never be reached by this type of intervention; and for this group, alternative, more intensive, tailored programmes may be required.

The intervention consisted of a curriculum (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies [PATHS]-RRB-, parent groups, child social skills training groups, parent child sharing time, home visiting, child peer pairing, and academic tutoring and was given during school and 2 hour extracurricular enrichment programmes and in the home.

At 1 year, the preventive programme led to improved outcomes for child social cognition and reading (effect sizes 0.23 to 0.54, p ≤ 0.04); child peer relations and social competence (effect sizes 0.27 to 0.28, p < 0.02); parenting behaviour (effect sizes 0.23 to 0.32, p ≤ 0.03); and child aggressive and disruptive behaviour (effect sizes 0.26 to 0.31, p ≤ 0.02) compared with no intervention; the effect sizes are shown for outcomes with ≥ 80 % follow up.

For example, a tobacco - focused review which included any intervention type, classified interventions with a component of resilience content into different subgroups such as social competence or social influence interventions, finding evidence for both broad intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal interventions were included with such interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta - analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effective.

Specifically, CPTSD involves early intervention programmes that,»... can significantly improve child development, educational achievement, and social adjustment...» (National Crime Prevention Centre, 2001).

The record linkage will also incorporate data on the quality and extent of implementation of mental health promotion and early intervention programmes in NSW schools, affording an opportunity to examine how delivery of such programmes may modify individual pathways of social, emotional and behavioural function between early and middle childhood.

Parenting programmes are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as evidence - based interventions for several child psychological problems including for parents of children with ASD8 and children with intellectual disability.9 Group - based parent programmes can be effective in reducing behavioural problems in children with ASD, 10 improving dysfunctional parenting styles, 10 increasing parents» ability to facilitate their children's development of communication skills11, 12 and increasing children's vocabulary.11 Group parent programmes also have the added benefit of providing social support for the parents.13 This is especially important given that parents of children with ASD are more likely to experience depression and stress, particularly parents of young children and of children with high levels of behavioural problems.4 — 6 Therefore, group interventions show promise as a valuable resource to help parents.

Microcosting analysis will be performed to assess the resources required to set up and deliver the new programme.38 Using information gathered by the CSRI cost - consequence analysis will be conducted to assess whether there have been any changes in participant health and social care service use in intervention or control families between baseline and first follow - up (from before to after programme participation), including service shifts.

The trial will also allow exploratory analyses of the effectiveness of the IY - ASLD programme compared with the control condition as well as the economic costs, including intervention set - up, delivery costs, participant health and social care service use, and parental health - related quality of life.

The use of early - intervention and prevention programmes helps mitigate the development of learning, social and emotional difficulties.

There was an additional indirect programme effect on the intervention group's self - awareness -LSB-(Estimate = 0.155, SE = 0.049, C.R. = 3.186, P < 0.01), Std Est = 0.142]; self - regulation -LSB-(Estimate = 0.107, SE = 0.048, C.R. = 2.211, P < 0.05), Std Est = 0.059]; motivation -LSB-(Estimate = 0.094, SE = 0.036, C.R. = 2.587, P < 0.01), Std Est = 0.054] and Social Skills scores -LSB-(Estimate = 0.094, SE = 0.036, C.R. = 2.587, P < 0.01), Std Est = 0.05].

Archways is a national organisation promoting and researching the use of evidence based programmes as an intervention for young people experiencing social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties and also as a means to prevent such difficulties arising in the first place.