Sentences with phrase «support group model»

Circle of Parents is a national network of statewide non-profit organizations and parent leaders that are dedicated to using the mutual self - help support group model as a means of preventing child abuse and neglect and strengthening families.

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Janice Lee of PCCW Media Group says the firm is using a dual revenue stream model of an advertising - supported free tier and a subscription - tier for its streaming service as it sees opportunities in both segments.

This report was revised to reflect that the PCCW Media Group is pursuing a dual revenue stream model of advertising - supported and subscription - based tiers for its streaming service.

Your children will model their behavior based upon yours — if you're not educated enough to explain to your kids why taking drugs is dangerous, don't give them tacit license to use because you did,» says Dennis Poncher, author and founder of the support group network Because I Love You.

Zero - based budgeting works well with the private - equity business model, since it requires a management team dedicated to this thorough and time - consuming process and a small investor group that supports such a financial transition.

We chose to model the effects on body weight because good evidence (from both trials and epidemiological studies) links regular consumption of sugar sweetened drinks to weight gain.8 10 12 Moreover, data from longitudinal studies support the idea that changes in the price of sugar sweetened drinks are linked to changes in body weight.20 Other groups have used this form of modelling to estimate the effects of a sugar sweetened drink tax on obesity.18 21 22

«Through our work with The Climate Group, our industry is proud to have supported comprehensive recycling programs that address all recyclables in these model cities,» Neely said.

Amidst a year where Toyota - backed organizations had widely dominated and with Chevrolet switching models this offseason from the SS to the Camaro, which is expected to better challenge Toyota, Keselowski was adamant that his Team Penske Ford - supported group would clearly be third - best on the track and needed NASCAR's help to curb the competitive disadvantage.

There is also, behind the scenes, a group of dedicated parents who are endlessly committed to supporting the work of Peaceful Parent Institute, who help promote the groups and support parents who are new to the model.

In order to update this information, we recruited a breastfeeding mom in a breastfeeding support group to test three new models for us.

Kernersville — Heartstrings Subsequent Pregnancy Support Group — Modeled after The Heartstrings Method, each cycle of our Subsequent Pregnancy Support Group meets for eight (8) sessions over a four (4) month period.

Social Support Networks: 9 Steps to Wellness: Jane Honikman's self - help model Support Groups and Warmlines: What they look like, how to start one, successful elements Faith Communities and Spirituality

Using a world café model, groups discussed four questions: what are the common points of toxic stress within our region, how can we prevent the pile up of chronic and toxic stress on babies, how do we currently build the skills of adults in our region, and how can we work smarter and how can our policies better support our families and communities.

Ivana is such a positive role model and support for our local group.

The programs that were identified as having promise for implementation were kangaroo care, infant message, guided observation of child behaviour with modelling and parent - child interaction time along with parent group discussion / support.

Group prenatal care models are designed to improve patient education and include opportunities for social support while maintaining the risk screening and physical assessment of individual prenatal care.

How this model works: As with my analyses of opinion poll figures in Ireland, constituency support estimates for different parties and groupings form the basis of the general approach taken with this analysis.

As no consistently accurate poll figures are presented here for the regional parties, or for the very small parties, I have assumed — for the purposes of this model — that support levels for these parties / groupings will remain «as was» relative to the 2015 contest.

Some countries actually have laws that support the «society model» promoted by radical groups (such as Boko Haram, the Taliban, ISIS,...), and use them *.

Because the lack of role models in the professoriate can be a barrier to participation, the BPC program also aims to develop effective strategies for identifying and supporting members of the targeted groups who want to pursue academic careers in computing.

Previously, Young used a similar online peer support model to encourage a group of homosexual men in Peru to get tested for HIV.

His team (Dorit Bormann, Florian Leutert, and Johannes Schauer) supports the group «Virtual Technologies of Corporate Research» of Volkswagen AG with the digitisation of production lines in preparation for a change of model:

Her work focuses on supporting the efforts of law enforcement groups and nonprofit organizations by using statistical models to monitor human trafficking.

Results from agent - based modelling, evolutionary theory, network theory and experiments in group decision - making also support Mettler.

The ANR is modelled after the National Science Foundation in the United States in that it reviews research proposals from all research groups in France — within public research institutes, universities, and industry — and distributes government funding to support individual peer - reviewed research projects.

Bar Harbor, Maine — October 21, 2004 — The Jackson Laboratory is pleased to announce that it has received support from the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation to make available the first group of mouse models for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neuromuscular disease and the leading genetic cause of death among infants and toddlers.

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

In his career - long support of CESM, Rasch was formerly co-chair of the Atmospheric Model Working Group and team lead for the version five development of CESM's atmospheric component, called the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM5).

With support from the HMS Tools - and - Technologies committee, he is evaluating the SBGrid software support model to determine if it can be extended to provide a general model of scientific software support for all groups at HMS.

PURPOSE This paper offers a rationale for initiating bereavement support groups in sites providing cancer care and delineates models to implement them.

FaithBridge partners with local churches to create independent foster care ministries around a small group model, called the Community of CareSM, which provides foster families with unparalleled support.

The Parthenon Group market research study found that few other leadership development models provided comprehensive in - field support through mentoring, assessment, community support, job placement, and professional development.

It involved using a flipped classroom model, creating a comprehensive class website and supporting learning through a Facebook group.

F&M's approach to retaining and graduating minority students is modeled directly on the work of the Posse Foundation, a New York City — based nonprofit that sends group of students, a posse, to college together to act as a support system for one another.

The advisory group is modeled on the National Reading Panel, a collection of experts whose recommendations have shaped K - 12 reading efforts supported with billions of dollars in federal funds.

We provide support by bringing the groups together, asking questions, providing specific structures for developing new ideas, and selectively modeling.

For those unfamiliar with the model ~ R.T.I. involves using tiered - levels of support ~ with the first and second tier using small - group interventions and...

Teacher modeling is one effective method (i.e. the teacher shows how collaboration is done), while avoiding homogeneous groups and grouping by ability, fostering individual accountability by assigning different roles, and evaluating both the student and the group performance also support collaborative learning.

Both programs offer support through a cohort model: ACE teachers must live in small groups, whereas TFA corps members frequently room together by choice.

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

To analyze the experimental question data, I modeled state education policy makers» policy preferences (0 = support; 1 = oppose) as a function of the control / treatment group to which they were randomly assigned.

The most promising models they found are incentive pay programs employing a group incentive design which «produce an effect over two times the average study in our sample... which lends support to the shared nature of teaching and learning hypothesis.»

This difference was substantial, and the two groups differed in all three dimensions of the CLASS Instructional Support domain: Concept Development, Quality of Feedback, and Language Modeling.

To celebrate exemplary programs as well as to cultivate a group of exemplary programs that model and can help to catalyze and support ongoing program improvement in other universities, UCEA has established an Award for Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation.

With the support of this public - private alliance, Brad will be leading an initiative to work with around 30 small schools in a rural area to develop a model of group purchasing and other innovative measures that will deliver tasty, nutritious food to children while also enabling the meals service to break even.

While education experts and innovators call for personalized learning and differentiated models of schooling, groups like Stand for Children and DFER support national standards (Common Core is also funded by Gates) and punishments and sanctions tied to test scores.

For districts and departments facing the challenge of teachers working in isolation, this group serves as a model of how a commitment to collaborative learning can build a professional community in which teachers support each other to shift their instructional practices and actively support all students» success.

For instance, the following comment supports this idea: «I would be more intentional about modeling my thinking process (metacognition) when showing students an example that we can do together before they work in groups.»

The Aspire model focuses on schools coming together in groups of 6 - 12 to engage in a range of shared network events, reinforced by in - school support from Achievement Advisers.

The group focused on six key issues: balancing school accountability and collaboration among school employees; transforming schools into community centers; supporting parent engagement and family services; building strong «cradle - to - career» models; funding; and promoting higher education.