Sentences with phrase «specifically child poverty»

They focus on income inequality — specifically child poverty — for evaluating gaps in those educational resources and outcomes.

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Women of Vision is a volunteer ministry of World Vision that mobilizes women to address poverty and justice issues that relate specifically to other women and their children.

More specifically, improving students» reading, math, and science knowledge and skills will help poor children climb out of poverty, and will help all children prepare for the rigors of college and the workplace.

In my view, No Child Left Behind ignores several important factors in a student's academic performance, specifically the impact of poverty, access to adequate health care, mental health, nutrition, and a wide variety of supports that children in poverty should have access to.

The TFA - Bay Area Sponsor A Teacher program is designed specifically for donors seeking to make a targeted impact in closing the opportunity gap that holds back children living in poverty.

Specifically, African - American and Hispanic children are more than twice as likely to live in poverty as non-Hispanic white and Asian - Pacific Islander children (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2001).

Furthermore, low income is strongly associated with poor parental mental and physical health.40, 42 Parental irritability and depressive symptoms have been associated with fewer interactions and more conflictual interactions with older children, leading to less satisfactory emotional, social, and cognitive development.43 Specifically, the parents» emotional state and parenting has been shown to greatly affect their children's social adjustment, self - esteem, social competence, and externalizing as well as internalizing behaviors.10, 13 As noted by the Institute of Medicine, there is an intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms.17 Whether this relationship is due to poverty, home environment, family structure, family resources, social support, or other factors warrants further research.

Although the research on resilience in foster children specifically is sorely lacking, studies of maltreated children suggest that maltreated children who exhibit resilience have high cognitive competence, self - esteem, and ego control (including flexibility, planfulness, persistence, and reflection).30 Thus, foster children, who have an increased likelihood of experiencing multiple risk factors such as poverty, maltreatment, and separation from family of origin, may have more positive outcomes if they are fortunate enough to also experience protective factors.

For more than 35 years, Dr. Jones Harden has focused on the developmental and mental health needs of young children at environmental risk, specifically children who have been maltreated, are in the foster care system, or have been exposed to multiple family risks such as maternal depression, parent substance use, and poverty.

Specifically, she is interested in the effects of early adverse circumstances (including maltreatment and poverty) on children's social and academic development.

This type of learning is specifically designed to counteract the effects of poverty and toxic stress on child success.

One study found that the length of time a child spends in poverty has an increasingly detrimental impact on their mental health (specifically antisocial behaviour)[12].

Specifically, fathers» and mothers» warmth as well as fathers» home learning stimulation mediated the relation between poverty and children's reading scores.