Sentences with phrase «unmet needs of our state»

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Further, it is important that things be done «decently and in order,» that one gets involved in programs of social welfare: finding food for the poor, finding shelter for the homeless, addressing unmet needs of children and senior citizens, and that one seeks to promote responsible social action in the affairs of state and nation.

The National Chocolate Show fulfills an unmet need for a trade show dedicated solely to chocolate in the United States, the home of seven of the top ten manufacturers in chocolate.

That's not what consciousness is, consciousness is the ability to become more aware of when we have fallen off track, when we need to shift back into the deepest state of groundedness, when we are being triggered by our past, rather than responding to the present, when we are responding to our own unmet needs rather than responding to a child's need in the moment.

Given the State's limited resources, shrinking statutory debt capacity and unmet capital needs, it is critical that the State prioritize its use of debt and capital resources — including the (windfall) resources deposited in the (infrastructure fund)-- to ensure that they are used as effectively as possible, and with appropriate levels of transparency and accountability.

«Given the State's limited resources, shrinking statutory debt capacity and unmet capital needs, it is critical that New York prioritize its use of debt and capital resources, including the resources deposited in the DIIF and the other settlement resources, to ensure that they are used as effectively as possible,» the report found.

He emphasized that «a crisis» of a large unmet need remains, resulting in human calamities that can cost the state a lot of money for prisons and social services.

It is clear that many people, including members of the state legislature, such as Senators David Carlucci, Thomas Libous, Thomas O'Mara, Patty Ritchie, and James Seward, Assembly members Aileen Gunther, Donna Lupardo, Barbara Lifton, Addie Russell, Clifford Crouch, Christopher Friend, and Philip Palmesano helped deliver a strong message about unmet needs.

The 33 are part of two groups, Patriotic Millionaires and Responsible Wealth, that wrote the state «can and must do more to invest in the state's unmet needs, and we believe wealthy taxpayers like us should be part of the solution.»

«We are pleased to provide this update regarding our ongoing clinical trial of AST - OPC1 for the treatment of severe cervical spinal cord injuries in patients for whom there are no viable treatment options and a high unmet medical need,» stated Michael Mulroy, President and Chief Executive Officer.

To make disruptive innovation possible, state education leaders need to create opportunities for new organizations or entities to emerge to address unmet educational needs outside of traditional schools.

I know who should be held accountable when tests cause undue duress in students, students are put into unrealistic pressure - cooker, toxic learning environments, student needs go unmet due to diverting finances to untested standards, students lose months of instructional time due to state - imposed distraction — all this to the full knowledge and concern of school superintendents, etc, etc

I believe we may have more than a «quiet crisis» on our hands; if those four phone calls are in any way indicative of the frustration that hundreds of other parents, teachers, administrators, and state directors are experiencing, it is only a matter of time before the unmet needs of the children (and adults) will make it a noisy crisis indeed.

According to state and national data, chronic absenteeism — which has a profoundly negative effect on student achievement — is closely correlated with ongoing and / or unmet health care needs (U.S. Department of Education, 2016).

Dr. Kristie Plunkett launched Mobile Veterinary Hospital of Tulsa in August 2012 to fulfill a dream and to satisfy the unmet needs of people and their pets in the Tulsa area by providing a state - of - the are veterinary service that comes to their front door.

To state the blindingly obvious, access to justice and unmet legal needs are not only local problems even if some of the solutions must be.

Gillian Hadfield has explained that given the huge amount of unmet legal need in the United States, neither more legal aid nor more conventional pro bono offers even a remote solution:

In fact, it was ABA research that first helped us understand the scope and severity of unmet legal needs in the United States.

The article in question, titled «Unmet Needs,» was part of a special series on pro bono in the United States, including the top 100 pro bono - friendly law firms and a powerful critique of big - firm pro bono by Deborah Rhode.

Offered: Summer Session: 2015 Course Description: (1 credit): Research studies repeatedly demonstrate that 80 % of the legal needs of the poor in the United States remain unmet, despite existing federal, state, and volunteer programs that provide some civil legal services to low income people.

He challenged the notion that the resolutions would harm the profession, stating «I would submit that this is an invalid premise — that this is a zero sum game and that nonlawyers will be taking food out the mouth of lawyers... There are substantial unmet legal needs that are not being met by members of the organized bar.»

The permanent commission will «study the remaining unmet civil legal needs of disadvantaged, low income and moderate income Floridians,» the order states.

The common legal tech or A2J conference will usually kick off something like to this — speaker one regurgitates a quote from Richard Susskind, speaker two states that 80 % of poor people have unmet legal needs, speaker three blames the bar association or law school for being resistant to change.

For its work in providing unmet legal needs to underserved parts of the United States, the University of Georgia School of Law was awarded the State Bar of Georgia's Law School Excellence in Access to Justice Award.

Pro bono is not a substitute for publicly funded legal services but there is increasing concern that expansion of pro bono encourages the state to allow pro bono work to fill the gap of unmet legal need.

Unmet mental and behavioral health needs for youth in foster care and for elderly Americans are two of the most pressing health care concerns in the United States today.

Latest KIDS COUNT data gives state a mixed progress report Leaders from more than a dozen organizations have launched a statewide civic engagement campaign aimed at raising awareness about the growing unmet needs of children.

Identifying neglect should be guided by specific state laws and 1) whether the child's basic needs are unmet and 2) whether potential or actual harm have occurred.15 Examples of unmet basic needs include inadequate or delayed health care, inadequate nutrition, inadequate physical care (e.g. poor personal hygiene, inappropriate clothing), unsafe or unstable living conditions, inadequate supervision and inadequate emotional care.

-- In conducting the statewide needs assessment required under paragraph (1), the State shall coordinate with, and take into account, other appropriate needs assessments conducted by the State, as determined by the Secretary, including the needs assessment required under section 505 (a)(both the most recently completed assessment and any such assessment in progress), the communitywide strategic planning and needs assessments conducted in accordance with section 640 (g)(1)(C) of the Head Start Act, and the inventory of current unmet needs and current community - based and prevention - focused programs and activities to prevent child abuse and neglect, and other family resource services operating in the State required under section 205 (3) of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.

Shared decision making is associated with positive experiences seeking care, fewer unmet needs but varies widely across states and is an integral component of quality of health care for patients.