Sentences with phrase «vulnerable children around»

This marks the first time that an entire issue of the Journal is devoted to an international perspective on meeting the needs of the youngest and most vulnerable children around the world.

More than 200 individuals, including child advocates, elected officials, judges, community and business leaders attended the event which challenged guests to follow the lead of our youth to pursue systemic change and ensure that vulnerable children around the state will have both an attorney and guardian ad litem in their dependency action.

Additionally, Pattinson is actively involved with the GO Campaign, an international charity organization improving the lives of orphans and vulnerable children around the world through local solutions.

The international children's charity has encouraged churches to use Halloween as a way to engage more children with the the Gospel message, while raising awareness of the plight of vulnerable children around the world.

All raised funds are going to be spent for the necessary products for vulnerable children around the world.

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«We're committed to supporting parents with the cost of bringing up children, we've doubled free childcare, Child Benefit is available for all children in a household, and we continue to spend around # 90 billion a year to ensure a strong safety net for the most vulnerable.»

He also talked about the need for the government to support efforts and technology that can save children around the world, reform the foster care system and help the most vulnerable.

The good news is that thousands of World Vision staff from around the world will continue their good work today - building wells, providing life - saving vaccinations, caring for Syrian refugees, partnering with communities to develop business and agricultural opportunities, lifting families out of poverty, and feeding, clothing, and sheltering vulnerable children.

A child's immune system isn't fully developed until they're around 5 years of age, but it's especially vulnerable as a baby.

But we're also grappling with some long - term issues around adoption, the care system, and children with disabilities, to make life better for some of the most vulnerable children in society.»

Annually, up to 500,000 vitamin A-deficient children around the world become blind and about half of those children die within a year, as they become vulnerable to other diseases.

The expectation is that the school has a strategy or plan built around a combination of technology; policies, processes and managerial procedures that enables vulnerable children to be identified and profiled, creating alerts that are then actively assessed and managed.

Chris Hume, partnership manager at GoSafe, said: «Our continued focus on 20mph limits around schools is part of our commitment to safer communities, and to protect the most vulnerable road users; our children.

Although many of our students live with the trauma of the refugee experience, statistics around child protection notifications, the rates of childhood sexual assault, families living with violence and the rates of students beginning school developmentally vulnerable paint a picture of students in classrooms across Australia living with trauma in their daily lives.

According to the latest census, around one in five children (22 per cent) were developmentally vulnerable on one or more domains.

Fifth grade is a vulnerable time in any child's life — the preteen years are just around the corner, and the transition from elementary school to middle school is imminent.

Please remind them that we provide extra resources and support all around the state for many horrific tragedies, but we continually neglect our most vulnerable children and families when they experience tragedy.

Brendan Drain (@nyphur): Last year I predicted that law enforcement and governments around the world would be forced to finally start tackling gambling in online games accessible by children and vulnerable adults, and I'm happy to see it finally happening.

Children are especially vulnerable because they tend to breathe through their mouths, which means less filtering of pollutants by nose hair; they tend to hang out more outside, where levels of these pollutants are usually higher; and they run around a lot, which means they take in more nasty stuff and inhale it deep into their lungs.

This means that a significant change in patterns around divorce raises some red flags — the lack of closure in marital conflicts, the impact on children who are most vulnerable to instability, and the number of couples who may continue to share space when their best interests and even their personal safety lie elsewhere.

In keeping with other research, 30 children in foster care, who make up around 8 % of the cohort, were found to be a particularly vulnerable group with almost half meeting criteria for high risk of emotional or behavioural problems.

Hilary earned her Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, where she focused her studies on the care and development of young Orphans and Vulnerable Children in institutional care around the world.

The approach uses an enhanced service delivery model to provide wrap - around intensive and sustainable resources to Goodstart early learning centres located in communities where children are more vulnerable to poor outcomes.

Compared to CHIP, the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) is small — serving around 160,000 families — but advocates say it's become a critical part of the social safety net for the most vulnerable new moms and children.

Around a fifth of Australian children — approximately 44,018 children — speak a language other than English at home, and linguistically diverse students who were not yet proficient in English when they began school were significantly more likely to be developmentally vulnerable on four of the five AEDI domains.