Sentences with phrase «time as a foster»

In northern Kenya, a privately owned rhino reserve is guiding communities that are rewilding former grazing lands at the same time as it fosters lucrative tourism facilities in a region once devastated by poaching.

Through both my job at the shelter on Prince Edward Island and my time as a foster parent in Washington, D.C., I have gained a lot of experience screening adoption applicants.

Foster homes are encouraged to set personal limits on the personality, temperament, or caregiving needs of the foster dog, as well as the number of foster dogs and their available length of time as a foster home.

Kim also spends her time as a foster mom for a local dog rescue group.

Lauren's other involvements in the legal and non-legal community include: serving on several committees for the New York State Bar Association and the Capital District Women's Bar Association, sitting on the Board of the Collaborative Divorce Association of the Capital District and the Board of the Shaker Heritage Society, and volunteering her time as a foster parent for a local dog rescue.

Seven years, six placements, three adoptions, four kiddos we've provided respite care for... these are the numbers that reflect our time as foster parents.

Not exact matches

At the same time, Silicon Valley knows it could do more to foster a sense of goodwill with the rest of the country, which does not live in its cloistered bubble of wealth and privilege, and yet has as much at stake when it comes to immigration reform.

Today, he works as a media consultant for a variety of brands, organizations, and startups, to foster an ongoing conversation about entrepreneurship, including The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Cool Hunting, SCORE, and OPEN Forum, where he serves as Editor - at - Large.

As human resources expert Susan M. Heathfield explains, «Poor goal setting makes people cynical, wastes their time and fosters confusion about where to concentrate actions and energy.»

Given the considerable number of background studies and the solid work of various groups such as the Jenkins Panel, the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, and the C.D. Howe Institute, CATA argues that it is time the Government considers and tables an action plan and commits to milestone deliverables in the 2012 Budget to foster an effective environment for successful commercialization of Canadian innovations.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

And new religious orders established by noted figures such as Fr Benedict Groeschel and Mother Angelica were at that time still being fostered in the hearts and souls of those remarkable founders.

Ann Marie worked for CPS at the time, and having recently wed her partner, Patricia (in a church commitment ceremony at which I served as celebrant), she decided to become a foster co-parent to Hailey, a child with special needs stemming from the chaos of her life's earliest months.

There is little appreciation for the nature of conversion as an ongoing process made up of many steps forward and backward along the way; or, for marriage as only one option among a couple, or even a few, equally viable, equally «holy» alternatives for living out one's God - given vocation... I don't have to dig too deep into my own experience to recognize the hang - ups that this glorification of marriage and a one - time conversion experience can foster.

Tough - guy New York newspaperman Pete Hamill praised the book as a scathing indictment of the «culture of poverty» (yes, he really uses this phrase) fostered by «Eamon de Valera's Ireland,» while the literary critic Denis Donoghue, writing in the New York Times, presented the book in much the same way (though he clearly lacks Hamill's enthusiasm for the story).

The Sabbath is meant as a time of rest from the world — a period of non-work and delight in which one's «useless» activity both fosters a recognition of the divine and sanctifies and refreshes ongoing life.

Religion and philosophy as agents fostering ethical considerations must at the same time also reckon with their in built inclination to congeal in perspectives, which allow the living tradition to harden.

IMHO Having 25 + / - kids at home (foster or not) should not give her time on the big stage in front of the American people to run for President as this would be child neglect or borders on tax payer fraud through the foster care system payments she receives for each child which is about $ 650 / Month.

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

To our ears such words sound very like the most blatant human imperialism toward the rest of nature, as does the divine commission to man in Genesis 1:28; and in modern times they may have fostered such an attitude and been used as a divine «exploiters» charter» to justify it.

With an older child who is already living in the United States, you can get a sense of the child's general health by spending time with him or her before the adoption or by serving as a foster parent first.

Sometimes this may involve enlisting the help of a family member or a sitter to watch your baby as you get your mind together and foster some me - time.

Madeleine Melcher is an adoptee who spent a brief time in foster care before finding her forever home as a toddler.

We've all been there... How many times have you been talking to someone as foster parent, relative care provider or adoptive parent and you ask a question and get an answer that is just so unexpected or off the wall that you say

She is the mother of a daughter and son - in - law, a son, and foster mother to 32 foster babies as they awaited adoption, one at a time.

Heaven forbid that children who have developed a love of learning rather than be told what to know and when, have been encouraged to use their curiosity rather than been told that it's not relevant to what they are learning, have been given the opportunity to try a variety of different experiences and skills rather than be told that there is no time / money / resources to do that, have been able to use and foster their talents rather than be told to sit still, be quiet and listen to something else instead and who are able to be independent thinkers, confident self - starters and able leaders rather than to «do as the curriculum says» to end up being employable!

As for families of same - sex couples or families where the father is the primary caregiver, recognize the strength each parent brings to the family and carve out special time with your kids to foster those bonds and grow them.»

Learn more from long time doula and advocate for families and babies, Penny Simkin, who is passionate about singing to babies as a way to foster further attachment between parents and baby.

Some children may have separation anxiety or attachment disorders (such as newly adopted children or children in foster placements) and these challenges may need to be dealt with during waking hours before being able to establish a consistent night time routine.

Reedy is the mother of a son and a daughter and son - in - law, and the grandmother of two grandchildren, as well as the foster mother to 32 babies as they awaited adoption, one at a time.

In her free time, Molly enjoys playing with her son and her current foster children, volunteering at Sacred Heart Catholic School and Church, camping and playing in the mountains as well as scrapbooking and painting.

Really successful social networking - based campaigns generally seem to work with the strengths of the medium rather than treating it as just another broadcast tool — organizers engage their friends and followers one - on - one and at length, fostering commitment among (at times) relatively small but strong groups.

• It helped foster Balls's belief that you should not fear taking a stand, as he did in FT leader writer meetings, against the consensus of the time.

A Bronx girl who has struggled through the foster care system is featured in the New York Times as part of the newspaper's Neediest Cases Fund.

In his welcome address, the host Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose who described the meeting which aimed at fostering unity in the southwest states as timely, said it is high time to jettison socio - political and economic differences so as to promote regional integration and development.

This led — not as critics predicted at the time to the formation of a pair of jumped - up local councils — but two thriving institutions that have helped to foster new political systems, a process given expression in spectacular fashion in Scotland a few weeks ago.

Since Mayor Jennings himself has taken the Albany Times Union to task for fostering negative crime «perceptions», it would seem as if both Burgermeister and a goodly number of his burghers were tuned to the same channel.

As fitness professionals, we are empowered with the ability to foster self - efficacy and self - actualization each time we work with a young athlete.

Brown rice has four times as much dietary fiber as white, including prebiotic types that foster the growth of our good bacteria, which may help account for the anti-obesity effects of brown rice.

Gretchen as co-lead gets more screen time and the more prominent arc, but Lindsay, who could in other hands be simply the duller, married - best - friend foil is perhaps even the weirder of the two, especially due to the split - personality element that her marriage and new social status has fostered.

Apatow, who deserves to be regarded as the preeminent figure in American comedy right now, has shown an uncanny knack for fostering bright young comic talent, and because he loves comics so much and is so fascinated by their process — the way John Cassavetes loved Method actors and their process — his productions tend to brim with scene - stealing supporting players, amusing non sequiturs, and running times (124 minutes in the case of The Five - Year Engagement) that few comedies in the history of moving pictures have shouldered without eventually buckling under.

To foster collaboration and teambuilding, sixth grade students experience Boss Level in advisory groups known as Home Base, small groups of 12 - 15 students that meet with an advisor four times a week throughout the year to work on SEL skills.

As research has shown, increasing the pace at which a student can read text silently fosters increased comprehension over time.

That is, CCTV can actually foster «behaviour modification» due to its deterrent effect, a factor which has been proven over a period of time as long as 20 years.

But at the same time, society's systems for fostering human potential — public education, social welfare programs, workforce training — are widely viewed as underperforming and even as contributing to inequality rather than helping to remedy it.

Additionally, students placed in foster care or out - of - home care, as well as dependents of active - duty military, are now able to apply for a scholarship at any time.

To help more mom - and - pops succeed, and, in the process, help expand and diversify the movement as a whole while advancing its political credibility and sustainability, Bradford recommends fostering better industry - wide support for single - site leaders, including building flexible networks of consultants; recruiting from non-traditional sources to diversify the pool of potential leaders, in terms of both race and worldview; and, allowing new schools more time to produce tangible results.

This video showcases three distinct spins on one time - honored activity — the scavenger hunt — as an engaging way to foster active learning and deep understanding through discovery.

Encouraging critical thinking has been shown to increase learning retention rates over time, as it fosters an active learning mindset in learners, leading to greater engagement.

«Should a student's membership in the subgroup be determined only at the time when the student is enrolled in the cohort or should a student be included in the subgroup if the student is identified as... a child who is in foster care at any time during the cohort period?»