Sentences with phrase «using volunteers trained»

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They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

FI Training: Working with Fathers in Early Years and Children's Centres Option A: Standard A 2 - day training course to help managers, front - line workers and volunteers in Children's Centres and other early years settings: • develop the confidence, knowledge and skills to work effectively with fathers • explore and develop strategies to engage with fathers • think about how to create a «whole team» approach to engaging fathers • plan needs - led approaches to engaging with and supporting fathers • consider how to use networks to support Training: Working with Fathers in Early Years and Children's Centres Option A: Standard A 2 - day training course to help managers, front - line workers and volunteers in Children's Centres and other early years settings: • develop the confidence, knowledge and skills to work effectively with fathers • explore and develop strategies to engage with fathers • think about how to create a «whole team» approach to engaging fathers • plan needs - led approaches to engaging with and supporting fathers • consider how to use networks to support training course to help managers, front - line workers and volunteers in Children's Centres and other early years settings: • develop the confidence, knowledge and skills to work effectively with fathers • explore and develop strategies to engage with fathers • think about how to create a «whole team» approach to engaging fathers • plan needs - led approaches to engaging with and supporting fathers • consider how to use networks to support fathers.

Concussion and Sports - related Head Injury: Statute 115C - 12 (23)(2011) requires the Department of Public Instruction, along with other organizations outlined in the statute, to develop an athletic concussion safety training program for the use of coaches, school nurses, school athletic directors, volunteers, students who participate in interscholastic athletic activities in public schools and their parents.

A membership organization and the most widely used volunteer coach training program in the nation.

Changes the league will implement for the 2015 season by using NAYS programs and resources include requiring all volunteer coaches to complete training through the National Youth Sports Coaches Association (NYSCA), as well as the NAYS bullying and concussion prevention trainings.

His training videos (also available as DVDs) for parents and volunteers are used by Big Brother and Big Sister agencies in the U.S. and Canada.

This call will highlight Summer Meal Programs that use different service models, as well as best practices for staff training and volunteers; meal service and vendor relations; menu planning and site staff; and programming activities.

As of end of April, all spring - season sports have successful trained their volunteer coaches using the online CDC training course.

The Suffolk County fire academy in Yaphank, used for training volunteer firefighters, is now on the state's Superfund list after water samples from monitoring wells detected contaminants that exceed federal health advisories.

It is a volunteer run event offering training in online organizing, digital strategy and use of online tools.

Literacy Suffolk had planned to use its money to hire a person to train literacy volunteers.

The program's goal is to train volunteers to serve as citizen scientists, documenting shoreline conditions along Alabama's shoreline using GPS coordinates and alerting officials and COAST partners to the presence of oil and / or affected wildlife.

There are now tens of thousands of containment centres across Africa, staffed by local volunteers trained to remove worms using the time - honoured method of winding them gently around a stick (see «The staff of Asclepius»).

Before, and at various times up to three months after the training, the volunteers» motor skills were assessed using established clinical measures to see how much they had improved.

The presentation was co-organized by AAAS, the Washington Statistical Society and Statistics Without Borders, a group that offers trained volunteers capable of using statistics and data science to help solve problems.

These ratings were then used to train a machine - learning algorithm to extract a single score from the measured values that would faithfully reflect the perceptual judgement of the volunteers.

Less than a month after S&T provided training to teach volunteers how to distinguish relevant pieces of information amid a squall of tweets, news releases and other items that needed vetting before they could be considered actionable, they used their skills in a real - world emergency.

The research team measured the volunteers» physical abilities before and after arm training using several standardized scales and tests of physical function, including:

We simplify the problem by only using the marker positions to assess whether the volunteer correctly assigned the classification «LENS» or «NOT» after viewing (blindly) a member of the training set of subjects.

Images of simulated lenses, as well as real images which lack lenses, are inserted into the image stream at random intervals; this training set is used to give the volunteers instantaneous feedback on their performance, as well as to calibrate a model of the system that provides dynamical updates to the probability that a classified image contains a lens.

Ramsey makes enemies quickly with the other prisoners, so he volunteers to be the man the guards use to train the dogs in how to hunt.

Additional kits and training will be made available to STEM volunteers through partners in order to provide support to teachers and a range of competitions will be used to help motivate teachers and students.

«Although I used trained «experts» from the class and paired experienced students with ones new to technology use, I also recruited tech - savvy parents and volunteers to help me.

In May, the volunteers obtain training and packets for use over the summer.

Reading intervention services may include the use of: special reading teachers; trained aides; volunteer tutors under the supervision of a certified teacher; computer - based reading tutorial programs; aides to instruct in - class groups while the teacher provides direct instruction to the students who need extra assistance; and extended instructional time in the school day or school year for these students.

Schools should prepare volunteers to assist with appropriate services and should train educators to use those services.

One of our staff members volunteered to train and assist the team as well as individual teachers with using all electronic RtI components.

→ Action → Enlist the Cooperative Extension Service to educate and train volunteers, disseminate proven practices, and assist in coordinating efforts to use locally available resources more efficiently and effectively.

We do this by recruiting, training and supporting volunteer tutors who provide free, long - term, one - on - one instruction using research - based methodology.

We asked for teacher volunteers who wanted to be trained and supported in using this new program, and we ended up with a handful of teachers that wanted to see what Unify could do.

Using the district's «Risk Index» for students, ninth - graders deemed at risk were identified, and parent involvement volunteers reached out to those students» parents and guardians to provide support and training in using the poUsing the district's «Risk Index» for students, ninth - graders deemed at risk were identified, and parent involvement volunteers reached out to those students» parents and guardians to provide support and training in using the pousing the portal.

NetGalley runs webinars to train you on using their software (which my volunteers also took), and the support from NetGalley is awesome.

Thanks to a sponsorship by eDreams, the winner will receive an all - expenses - paid one - week trip to Ghana, where he or she will work as a volunteer in the organization's project of distributing 500 Kindles to students and training the students on how to use them.

Champs volunteer Cathi Morris, who has previously worked with Special Olympics Oklahoma, began training her dog at K9 Manners & More a few years ago and says the program has allowed her to put her passions to good use through teaching and continuing work with her dog.

Allison, who is also a TAW volunteer, has since gone through Reiki therapy training with O'Sullivan and says she has used it on both foster dogs and herself.

However, I wanted to use this daily exercise as a training opportunity for both the volunteers and the dogs.

We realized that the volunteers wanted more personalized training plans for each dog as well as additional skills that they could use in their training sessions.

The Massachusetts SPCA used this presentation to train advocates and volunteers for lobbying at the State House.

Because all animals live in the moment, we are committed to the continual improvement of their quality of life by using volunteer foster homes to meet medical, emotional, and physical needs on a daily basis by stressing training, socialization, and mental stimulation.

The director has to figure out how to recruit and train the volunteers, how to motivate them to keep coming back, what they will and won't be allowed to do, how to keep them safe from bites and zoonoses, what the considerations are for legal liability, what tracking of volunteers will be done, how to evaluate volunteers to make sure they are being used most effectively and prevented from doing any harm, what accommodations can be set aside for them in the shelter, and so on.

This program uses trained volunteers and their adult dogs to make short, in - room visits to eligible and consenting patients.

Using shelter volunteers and their own trained, licensed and insured canine companions, RCHS offers a unique program to help children with reading difficulties.

* The Dog Behavior Staff also uses trained volunteers to take dogs back and forth from dog playgroups twice a day.

The original program used civilian volunteer trainers, but when the demand for sentry dogs exploded, training responsibilities were turned over to the Quartermaster's Remount Branch.

One of our talented volunteer trainers will bring dogs to your workplace to demonstrate training techniques we use in the shelter.

All dog evaluations are done under the guidance of a trained volunteer using Brookline's evaluation forms until such time as a volunteer has been approved to conduct dog evaluations independently.

Kat Camplin, KPA CTP, uses the skills she has accumulated in her many years volunteering with and training dogs — and through her experience at Karen Pryor Academy — in her California - based business, Romping Dogs.

We do follow up and we do all this for free we volunteer taking our time to train and care for a dog using our gas.

Handouts for use in staff and volunteer training are also included, along with a CD - ROM of the documents.

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