Sentences with phrase «vulnerable kids in»

Our joint efforts provide long term sustainable support to more than 600 orphaned and vulnerable kids in the Teso region of Uganda.

The students they take in are the poorest, most educationally vulnerable kids in the country,» she said.

Have the parents of vulnerable kids in your community organized?

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We need to sign up 100 child sponsors in Drouin whose kids are vulnerable to trafficking and 100 hosts for a Garage Sale for Orphans to build a preschool for children who have been rescued from trafficking while we're here on the ground.

We want to sign up 100 child sponsors in Drouin whose kids are vulnerable to trafficking and 100 hosts for a Garage Sale for Orphans to build a preschool for children who have been rescued from trafficking while we're here on the ground.

The only similarity in the circumstances as known, is that both took advantage of a vulnerable group of kids.

This especially true if your kids are in school, or someone in your household works in a vulnerable place like a hospital.

Conventional wisdom used to hold that it was the changing sex hormones that made kids «crazy,» but scientists now understand that puberty kicks off changes in the brain that make youth more emotionally sensitive, more sensitive to their social world, more willing to take risks, and more vulnerable to mental illness and addictions.

The eldest of four girls (Jennifer lost her elder sister Stacey in an accident when they were kids), Jennifer dedicates her time and energy to helping our most vulnerable.

Even the youngest kids are aware of and vulnerable to the stress of a divorce or a death in the family, or a parent's job loss.

Kids are very vulnerable to anything and in order for them to have a strong foundation, spending valuable time with them is very important in nourishing their growth.

Side impact crashes are one of the deadliest types, and children in high back booster seats were especially vulnerable Britax used technology to keep these kids as safe as possible.

These parents in vulnerable communities don't know how to deal with their kids» eating habits.

Making Kids Count is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization in the Mahoning Valley dedicated to the most vulnerable in our community, children.

We all take turns being the vulnerable — we were all once kids, we all have times when we're sick, particularly overburdened, or for whatever reason emotionally, mentally, or physically distracted in our lives.

Eighty - six private agencies rake in millions of taxpayer dollars to help NYC's Administration for Children's Services care for New York's most vulnerable kids — and their CEOs get big bucks.

We stand ready to work with the Governor and others to give voice to our most vulnerable children, and to ensure that no kid goes hungry in New York.»

Young and middle - age women may be more vulnerable to emotional stress because they face considerable burden of stressors in everyday life such as managing kids, marriage, jobs and caring for parents, Vaccarino said.

«If a kid's been playing soccer for a couple or three years, he may not have been in a vulnerable position where he does much heading,» she says.

Kids may be most vulnerable to BPA very early in life, Babajko says.

Studies have shown that this is true even in kids; a single close relationship can be extraordinarily protective in even the most vulnerable of children.

Best Actress: Annette Bening — Kids Are All Right — stern, intelligent yet moving and likeable — it takes a real pro to accomplish that with such style and verve Nicole Kidman — Rabbit Hole — heartbreaking but resilient — a perfect balance between broken and fixed — it is so joyful to watch a character so succinctly communicated Lesley Manville — Another Year — heartbreaking with closeup after closeup of vulnerability and grasping hope — truly a fragile and pulsating performance Julianne Moore — Kids Are All Right — courageous and oh so human — sexy and vulnerable in an earthy way — her struggles with herself are the heart of the movie and she carries it magnificently and warmly Natalie Portman — Black Swan — the tour de force this year — the crazy, emotionally volatile core of a crazy, emotionally volatile film — some wonder if it might be «easer» to play such big emotions but the incredibly thin wire she has to traverse in such an extreme environment is daunting and she makes it work and gives us believability and solicits true sympathy in the middle of a fright fest — a truly accomplished achievement

The film hardly goes ten minutes without an action scene, and with a sense of physical stunts dominating a degree of visual spectacle, those sequences lend weight to the idea that these kids are both crafty and vulnerable in such circumstances.

PASA offers a creative alternative to those vulnerable after - school hours while building strong relationships with peers and adults — another key strategy for keeping kids in school.

«If you don't, you look like a phony in front of your kids, and that makes you vulnerable to the clown's desire to remove your mask.»

Coming from the world of traditional public schools, Dr. Monroe initially didn't know much about charters or the work that they do for kids in our nation's most vulnerable areas.

Mott Haven Academy in the South Bronx is a shining example of a school working with a vulnerable population - kids in foster care.

In a system that is often touted as a model for what schools can do for kids, many of our most vulnerable students and families, particularly Latino families, are invisible.

Instead of going back to an accountability approach that was supposedly «demoralizing» teachers and school leaders charged with helping poor and minority kids succeed, Petrilli and others prefer the new approaches, which attempt to focus on the growth schools and districts make in helping our most - vulnerable.

The fact that some organizations even went so far as to push for aspects of the waiver gambit that have led to states defining proficiency down for poor and minority kids has also made them vulnerable to accusations from traditionalists that they care little for children while making it more difficult for allies to support them in other ways.

What happened from 2006 - 11 in Hartford may have helped some kids, but came along with further marginalization of the most vulnerable children and families in our city.

«This consent decree is the first in the country to recognize what everyone already knew - laying off teachers at already vulnerable schools can and does deny kids their right to educational opportunity.

In the process, they have forgotten their moral and political obligations as school reformers to the most - vulnerable children, the kids black and brown and poor and American Indian, who have been subjected to nearly two centuries of what can be best called educational genocide.

Among the ideas is using games and technology simulations to support teachers and family, and tracking progress in certain vulnerable student populations such as kids with disabilities or those who are learning English as a second language.

Aren't we in the middle of a renaissance of inequity, opening Magnet after Charter after Magnet, thus weakening the Traditional schools that inevitably serve the most vulnerable, the least literate, the least motivated, and the least advantaged kids?

After all, the United States struggles mightily in providing its most - vulnerable kids with high - quality education.

Many families support their college - age kids in other ways that could also make them vulnerable.

Final Fantasy XIII is that dog your parents» bought you as a kid, only to be taken away a few weeks later because your crotchety neighbors kept complaining, and your parents» decided that their social status in the neighborhood was more important than your vulnerable, eight - year - old emotions.

Hopefully we can raise some good money to help the more vulnerable kids from Brazil to ensure they get a fair chance in life.

Damien Hirst voices support for Kids Company's petition to overhaul social care and mental health services for vulnerable children in the UK.

The really interesting question, to follow on the last sentence of the story, is: what if you're an Indian kid looking for a light to read by — and also living near the rising ocean, or vulnerable to the the range expansion of dengue - bearing mosquitoes, or dependent on suddenly - in - question monsoonal rains.

Laid out in neat rows, like the residential neighborhoods they are inspired by, these homes feel more familiar — more human and vulnerable — than the fantastically large castles we're used to seeing constructed by kids on the beach.

«Our immediate goal is to build a self - sustaining arts - based shelter for AIDS orphans and vulnerable street kids in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania.

So there are two kinds of young children who are very vulnerable — well, there are more than two, but to over-simplify it — who are the vulnerable high - risk kids in our society.

«In recent years, Rhode Island has built a strong, voluntary system of evidence - based home visiting programs serving vulnerable families, including Healthy Families America, Nurse - Family Partnership, Parents as Teachers, and Early Head Start,» said Elizabeth Burke Bryant, executive director of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT.