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underserved children with free dental care and education to improve dental healthcare.

«Our goal is to provide some of Waterbury's most underserved children with a high - quality education and a strong social and emotional learning program.

«At Making Waves we strive to provide a quality public education that provides all underserved children with a K - 12 experience second to none.

Azad's research focuses on promoting family - school partnerships for underserved children with psychiatric and developmental disabilities.

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In doing so, the company is on a mission to connect with professional athletes to children in underserved communities.

In announcing the partnership, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, «We are pleased to be part of this initiative, which will give children in underserved communities access to new helmets, and to reach coaches and parents with educational information to help protect young athletes from head injuries.

«Those rallying in Albany next week should stand together with the city and advocate — side by side — for our children, particularly the most underserved, and all of whom are public school students.»

It also was the first randomized, controlled trial on this underserved population of children to use a computer tablet combined with an effective behavioral intervention.

Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.

With support from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UC San Diego School of Medicine faculty work to improve immunization levels for children in underserved areas.

«Studies found that elementary schools were pretty well taken care of with after - school child care, and high schools had such high - caliber programs as youth - leadership development and arts and theater,» says Salmons, who points out that middle school students, meanwhile, were vastly underserved.

«As Kargman Chair, I intend to make significant strides conducting developmental research with understudied and underserved populations of children.»

It was a group undoubtedly underserved: The federal government requires schools to provide an appropriate education to children with cognitive, physical, and emotional handicaps, but is largely silent about the needs of kids at the upper end of the educational curve.

His interest in working with children, especially the underserved, started early.

At Stand for Children, we work with thousands of low - income parents and guardians in underserved communities all across the nation, from Phoenix to Indianapolis, Boston to Baton Rouge, Denver to Chicago, Tulsa to Tacoma.

How would parents in underserved communities with a high percentage of low - performing schools have any idea their children are attending a failing school?

«Beyond the Basics: Super Subs Bring the Arts to Underserved Kids» These unusual substitute teachers offer a free day of curriculum - expanding fun through the arts to schools with underserved children (July 2008).

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

The profound lack of knowledge about public education, as reflected in comments about public schools being «flush with cash» and badly underserving the nation's children, coupled with policy proposals based on these «alternative facts», pose a threat to a high - quality education for more than 50 million students.

They adopt policies with the goal of seeing every child succeed academically, particularly those children who historically have been underserved.

The Partnership for Children & Youth (PCY) is an advocacy and capacity - building organization championing high - quality learning opportunities for underserved youth in California, with an emphasis on after school, summer learning, and community schools.

We're doing this with children that nationally are underserved and underperforming: Black and Brown students.

Sinergia Offers support to families of children with disabilities, particularly those who are underserved and have limited English proficiency.

Children living in historically underserved communities, both in urban and rural areas, arrive to school with medical and behavioral needs that are often left unaddressed.

The report is wide - ranging, with a focus on anti-intellectualism in American society, the needs of underserved - children, and a status report on gifted education in the 1990s.

The report is wide - ranging, with a focus on anti-intellectualism in American society, the needs of underserved gifted children, and a status report on gifted education in the 1990s.

NCLB requires schools to focus on providing quality education to students who are often underserved, including children with disabilities, from low - income families, non-English speakers, as well as African - Americans and Latinos.

JEAN DESRAVINES (New York, NY), Chief Executive Officer of New Leaders, has more than 15 years of professional leadership experience working with parents and communities on education issues and community development, primarily focusing on improving outcomes for children in underserved communities.

The design should be intuitive so the strengths and challenges of a particular school are easy to understand by all audiences - whether you are an education policy expert with a Ph.D., a parent in an underserved community with failing schools looking for better school options, a busy parent managing a child's involvement in school activities, or a first - time parent choosing a kindergarten.

Advocates say that they provide more choices for students with special needs, or who feel underserved by the local schools that service their neighborhood — they say that the quality of a child's education should not be determined by zip code alone.

The EHA implemented a policy requiring «that all handicapped children be identified, evaluated, and offered educational services,» a specification that recognized children with disabilities as an underserved population and strove to correct that imbalance (Levesque 2014).

At this weekend's National Book Festival, hosted by the Library of Congress, book distribution and reading awareness organization Reach Out and Read was presented with the David M. Rubenstein Prize for the charity's work to combat illiteracy, especially among low - income and underserved demographics of children.

Organized as part of the non-profit arm of Frieze New York, Frieze Education runs annually from October through June, providing high school students and children from underserved communities across New York's five boroughs with access to arts programs through a combination of workshops and tours of artist studios, galleries, museums and the fair.

AOT creates arts - based education programming for children in underserved communities in Central Brooklyn, NY and fills a gap in arts programming and curatorial initiatives creating diversity through action that consciously works for all people and with / for people of color and communities of color, engaging in contemporary art dialogues beyond community - based initiatives that fail to challenge the status - quo.

This group exhibition, which included Buckman's neon hourglass, focused on abstraction in contemporary art and benefited Free Arts, an organization that provides underserved children and families with arts education and mentoring programs.

• Exceptionally well - versed in identifying and recruiting eligible families, including children with disabilities and underserved populations • Excellent skills in selecting participants based on established plans and procedures • Qualified to make appropriate referrals for families to community agencies, and ensure appropriate follow - up

An organization that holds a core commitment to equality, social responsibility and justice with attention to marginalized and underserved groups, and fosters policies that support the welfare of families and children and serves as a context for all concerned with the health of the family;

Designed for adolescents (14 - 19) from underserved minority groups who are pregnant with their first child and planning to keep the infant.

It is crucial to consider work with diverse populations of grieving children and adolescents who live in underserved urban settings through a lens of inclusivity, cultural awareness, and sensitivity.

This program adapts with fidelity the Parents as Teachers home visitation model of home visits, child screening, and group meetings to be delivered through video conferencing technology to reach more families in underserved communities and to provide more options for today's tech - savvy parents.

Expand access to high quality early care, education and health services for all children, starting with the most underserved and at - risk populations

APEC provides services and supports to assist families particularly those underserved including minority, low - income, and those with children with disabilities.

APEC provides services and support to assist families particularly those underserved including minority, low - income, and those with children with disabilities.

Dr. Clark has translated the results of her research and the evidence based evaluation and treatment protocols she has developed into community based interventions for underserved women, their infants and families including collaborating with community partners in Dane County to develop the Early Childhood Initiative (ECI), a comprehensive home visitation program for families with infants and young children affected by poverty.

Prior to joining The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Ms. Bee worked as a therapist in specialized foster care; she helped underserved children and their families cope with emotional difficulties related to trauma and serious illness.

Children who come to the attention of the juvenile justice system are a challenging and underserved population, with high rates of exposure to trauma.

The hotel - style facility's flexible accommodations are designed to keep homeless families together by housing a variety of underserved groups, including women with children, intact families and families with older male children.