Sentences with phrase «support access to child care»

The new tax credit would support access to child care rated as high quality, which would be selected by parents.

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Some of Clinton's plans include guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, expanding early childhood education, capping childcare expenses at 10 percent of a household's income, helping the families of children with autism and other special needs get access to more resources and support, and insuring more families through the Affordable Care Act.

This is the modest sum which needs to be invested each year in «social support» to guarantee universal access to drinking water within ten years (1,300 million individuals did not have access in 1997), universal access to basic education (1,000 million people are illiterate), universal access to basic healthcare (17 million children die each year from easily cured illnesses), universal access to adequate nourishment (2,000 million people suffer from anemia), universal access to sanitary infrastructures and universal access for women to gynecological and obstetric care.

However, moving may be in the best interest if the move allows a child to attend a better school, provides access to child care or a support system, or would benefit the child in some other way that can be demonstrated in court.

Rebecca works as an early education consultant at ICF International, where she supports federal and state programs that strive to ensure that our youngest children have access to quality early care and education.

This proposal would provide the resources to help states implement those important reforms and support the expansion of access to quality child care programs staffed by early educators that can provide developmentally appropriate services that promote the healthy development and school readiness of young children

For example, Early Head Start, which provides comprehensive services focusing on early learning experiences, health and nutritional status, social - emotional behavior, early intervention, and parent support, offers increased access to health care, well - child exams, immunizations, and screening tests for children enrolled in the program.

Providing or helping parents gain access to other types of supports and resources, such as medical or child care resources, is also an important feature of these programs.16, 3

The TLC foundation «lightens the load» by providing easy access to adventures, respite and information about adaptive sports and camps for children, parent getaways, accessible family vacations, specialized child care resources, support groups and more.

This fact needs to be continually reiterated to decision makers as otherwise manufacturers of breast milk substitutes will capitalise on HIV infection as a reason for promoting free samples of their formula.10 It is extraordinary that the Wall Street Journal painted the baby food manufacturers as heroes poised to save African children from certain death because of their offer to donate free formula to HIV infected mothers.11 The WHO recommends avoidance of breast feeding by HIV infected mothers only if replacement feeding is feasible, safe, sustainable, and affordable — otherwise exclusive breast feeding is recommended during the first six months of life.12 Non-infected women must be given access to credible information, quality care, and support, in order to empower them to make informed decisions regarding feeding of their infant.13

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

Doran also said that she knows that everyone from children to the newly retired should have access to a doctor when they need it and that's why she supports a single - payer health care system, as well as guaranteeing women's reproductive rights.

Teaming up with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, the Rock on Café program runs a «Week of Caring» to collect food donations to support the Food Bank's BackPack Program, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal programs.

The new programs are expected to increase college access and support degree completion by providing wraparound services for students such as child and elder care, transportation, health care services, family and / or employment counseling, legal aid, and more.

Studies show that access to paid sick days promote safer and healthier work environments by reducing the spread if illness and workplace injuries and it reduces health care costs and supports children and families by helping the parents fulfill their care - giving responsibilities.»

We provide each family access to educational resources as well as emotional and practical support to aid in the daily care of their child after they return home from the hospital.

Berry Street's BeNetWise program supports a proactive approach by welfare agencies in addressing the digital divide experienced by the children and young people in the out - of - home care and alternative education sectors who have a lack of access to digital technology.

Indianapolis — The nation's chief state school officers last week endorsed a comprehensive early - childhood and family - education plan calling for universal access to prekindergarten programs, publicly supported day care, and increased federal involvement in efforts to help children at risk of school failure.

Report Seeks Help for Low - Income Student Parents (Inside Higher Ed) A new report authored by Bridget Terry Long proposes expanding the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program, which supports low - income parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care servChild Care Access Means Parents in School program, which supports low - income parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care serviCare Access Means Parents in School program, which supports low - income parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care serAccess Means Parents in School program, which supports low - income parents by providing them with access to campus - based child - care seraccess to campus - based child - care servchild - care servicare services.

Report Seeks Help for Low - Income Student Parents (Inside Higher Ed) Professor Bridget Terry Long proposes expanding the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program, to support low - income parents.

During June and July next year, nasen, in partnership with the Department for Education (DfE), will deliver a string of Implementation Events around the country where education practitioners, SENCOs, health and social care providers can access free training on the details of «how» to make the required arrangements for children and young people with SEN.. The devil is always in the detail — nasen will be working with up to a dozen outstanding education providers over the next few months will design and produce an implementation support pack for all providers to access and take away from our Implementation Events programme next summer.

Give kinship carers access to support and give vulnerable children in kinship care priority in school admissions

«Often we have kids coming to kindergarten who don't know their letters and numbers,» said Cole, explaining that children in rural districts who don't have access to pre-K are often cared for by family members and don't always get the educational supports that are provided by pre-K programs.

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.

Stressful events that are chronic, uncontrollable, and / or experienced without children having access to support from caring adults tend to provoke these types of toxic stress responses.

We know that caring relationships, access to varied learning opportunities, and providing supports outside the classroom can alter a child's life for the better.

The campaign is also supporting the work of Child Health BC, an initiative of BC Children's Hospital aimed at ensuring all children in BC have access to a consistent standard of specialized care no matter where in the province tChildren's Hospital aimed at ensuring all children in BC have access to a consistent standard of specialized care no matter where in the province tchildren in BC have access to a consistent standard of specialized care no matter where in the province they live

Through the work of our non-profit foundation Planeterra, we have launched and supported 50 projects globally, which are helping give men, women and children greater access to education, health care and sustainable income that honours their traditional way of life.

In Virginia, a court may consider any of the following factors, among others, in making a decision: The age and physical and mental condition of the child, giving due consideration to the child's changing developmental needs; the age and physical and mental condition of each parent; the relationship existing between each parent and each child, giving due consideration to the positive involvement with the child's life, the ability to accurately assess and meet the emotional, intellectual and physical needs of the child; the needs of the child, giving due consideration to other important relationships of the child, including but not limited to siblings, peers and extended family members; the role that each parent has played and will play in the future, in the upbringing and care of the child; the propensity of each parent to actively support the child's contact and relationship with the other parent, including whether a parent has unreasonably denied the other parent access to or visitation with the child; the relative willingness and demonstrated ability of each parent to maintain a close and continuing relationship with the child, and the ability of each parent to cooperate in and resolve disputes regarding matters affecting the child; the reasonable preference of the child, if the court deems the child to be of reasonable intelligence, understanding, age and experience to express such a preference; any history of family abuse; and such other factors as the court deems necessary and proper to the determination.

Although a significant majority of all respondents were in favour of amending the Divorce Act to change the language used to describe the post-separation care of children from «custody» and «access» to alternative terminology such as «parental responsibilities» and «parenting time,» a slightly larger proportion of respondents from Alberta supported the proposed amendment than respondents from the rest of Canada.

Once you have worked out the important details for living and care of your children, through custody and access arrangements, you will next need to determine child support.

No one chooses to use CMS's enforcement option if they can come to their own agreement, and penalising the parent with care for needing support to access the money they need to bring up their child is unfair — 4 % of each payment could mean a lot to a family that is struggling,» he says.

We increase access to music therapy for patients in children's hospitals, senior's centres, palliative care, AIDS & HIV programs, at - risk youth, habilitation, and bereavement support.

For advocates seeking to support access to child - care assistance and high - quality early learning programs, this brief provides guidance and strategies to support racial equity in their states «child - care assistance programs.

For example, your child's development is supported by positive relationships with friends and neighbours, and access to things like playgrounds, parks, shops and local services like child care, schools, health centres and libraries.

All families should have access to economic and parenting supports to ensure all children have nurturing and stable relationships with caring adults.

Interviews with parents who have a lived experience of mental illness to explore their experiences in GP consultations, their journey through primary health care services and recommendations to support parenting and children's needs when a parent accesses support for a mental health issue.

Myra Jones - Taylor, Chief Policy Officer at Zero to Three, explores why access to quality care is critical, and what policymakers can do today to support child care advocacy now.

The following policy recommendations focus on advancing the early childhood profession as one of the key supports in expanding access to early years and child care programs in Ontario while also enhancing quality.

Ontario is helping more children access affordable, quality licensed child care to give them the best start in life and support families across the province.

Families who have adopted children from foster care often tell us that one key to success is accessing financial and medical assistance and services that support parents, children, and youth.

National Center for Children in Poverty, Project Thrive (www.nccp.org): The Public Policy Analysis and Education Center for Infants and Young Children at the National Center for Children in Poverty has as its core mission increasing knowledge and providing policy analysis that will help states build and strengthen comprehensive early childhood systems and link policies to ensure access to high - quality health care, early care and learning, and family support.

Advocacy regarding neglect may be at several levels as outlined in the following examples: 1) at the child's level, for example, explaining to a parent that responding to a crying infant does not risk spoiling him / her is a form of advocacy on behalf of a preverbal child; 2) at the parental level, helping a depressed mother access mental health care or encouraging a father to be more involved in his child's life; 3) at the community level, supporting efforts to develop community family resources; and 4) at the societal level, supporting government policies and programs such as those that reduce access to health care, food benefits, and subsidized child care.

The situation is more mixed where ECEC for children under 3 years is concerned: many governments generously subsidise and support parents to access child care, but others see child care as primarily a parental responsibility.

As part of implementing KidsMatter, Alunga (part of Illawarra Area Child Care) partnered with Medicare Local to create a seamless mental health service for families and reduce the stigma of families accessing support.

In November 2015, the Government launched the Inter-Departmental Group Report on Supporting Access to the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme for Children with a Disability.

Feeling informed and having access to information can assist families to manage some of these feelings and to make decisions about how to care for and support their child.

Infusing Culture into Practice: Developing and Implementing Evidence - Based Mental Health Services for African American Foster Youth Briggs & McBeath (2010) Child Welfare, 89 (1) View Abstract Reviews the consequences of the insufficient access to culturally sensitive, evidence - supported interventions for African - American youth in foster care.

Finding Funding: Supporting Making Connections Core Result That Children Are Healthy and Prepared to Succeed in School (PDF - 1,240 KB) Lind, Crocker, Stewart, Torrico, Bhat, & Schmid (2009) Reviews strategies for accessing Federal, State, local, and private funding sources to support early learning, health services, literacy and tutoring programs, out - of - school time programs, parent outreach and engagement, and supports for schools and child care providers.

As part of a larger investment in the early childhood system, state policymakers should look to the role that QRIS can play in supporting providers in order to achieve higher quality and ensure that all children can access quality care.