Sentences with phrase «with community workers»

The Penn Center for Community Health Workers works to improve the health of high - risk patients by matching them with community workers who help them navigate the health system.

Not exact matches

In Fort McMurray, oilsands producers like Suncor must wrestle with restarting operations while supporting their workers and communities.

In the letter, which has been published online, the civic leaders said Amazon must be ready to hire local workers, pay its fair share of local taxes, and negotiate with the local community to ensure its facility will positive impact everyone.

Hence: barely sweetened iced tea and totally biodegradable tea bags (Honest Tea Inc.); garden, home, and pet products made from recycled or organic materials (WorldWise Inc.); organic, shade - grown coffee with a guaranteed base price for growers (Sustainable Harvest Inc.); Web development using urban workers (CitySoft Inc.); nonsexist, nonviolent toys (Wild Planet Toys Inc.); revitalized communities and neighborhoods (Village Real Estate Services); and recycled paper products (New Leaf Paper LLC).

«If local communities want to be economically competitive, they need to have workers with a strong STEM foundation,» said Randy Schilling, chair of the organization's Education Committee.

According to the SBA, DELTA loans of up to $ 1.25 million must be used to retain jobs of defense workers, create new jobs in impacted communities, or to make operating changes with the aim of remaining in the «national technical and industrial base.»

So the group committed to making that a reality — working with their Global Forum colleagues and others in the private and nonprofit sectors to fund a corps of 750,000 community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and other underserved rural areas of the globe.

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

«Most startups don't have culture and community yet, so they can go into a facility and instantly become part of a community and make connections with other young workers,» Lam says.

And today large businesses are starting to partner with community colleges to ensure a steadier stream of skilled workers.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

The Task Force is due to report back to McKenna by the end of this year, after engaging with workers and communities affected by the coal phaseout.

In the area of Human Rights, Equity and Diversity (HRED) he guides national strategies on Diversity and Inclusion, Temporary Foreign Workers (migrant workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational Workers (migrant workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational growth.

After this (and with the installation of the Workers» Party in power in Brazil), support from beyond Fortaleza, notably from the National Secretary of the Solidarity Economy in the Ministry of Labour, made possible a network of community banks in Brazil on the Banco Palmas model.

Ensure that a substantial percentage of jobs go to working people from disadvantaged communities; workers who struggle with irregular employment; and returning citizens; and

To complete hyperspecialized tasks, companies can use internal employees, develop dedicated relationships with external suppliers, or rely on intermediary firms that link clients with communities of specialized workers.

With digital disruption, Living Goods and Last Mile Health will empower community health workers to fill the gap — while earning a living.

So far, however, the Administration's protectionist trade actions appear more likely to result in increased economic insecurity for workers in California, with the effects concentrated in communities that are already struggling economically.

On Monday evening, trade groups representing a host of industry workers (architects, real estate agents, community bankers, air conditioner repairmen, beer wholesalers, door inspectors) released a statement expressing grave concerns with Senate Republicans» tax bill.

«Premier Clark's failure to deal openly and transparently with this tailings dam failure will hurt not only mining and other resource industries that drive our economy, but also the workers and communities who rely on them,» said Macdonald.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

I don't doubt that all sorts of dangers are associated with fracking: to workers, to communities, to the environment.

Assistant Professor of Social Work, Barb Burdge, published an essay in July on the importance of social workers undermining the alleged «social construct» of gender.In «Bending gender, ending gender: theoretical foundations for social work practice with the transgender community,» Burdge asserts that social workers must reject «a dichotomous understanding of gender» in favor of «more accurate and affirming conceptualizations of gender.»

The resolution offered in all three passages is also remarkably similar: God recruits the prophet to plead on behalf of the poor and needy; Timothy recruits the community for a vocation of holiness; and the crafty worker fiddles with the books to recruit sympathy for himself.

The Times had been conducting an investigation into the cause of the riots, and interviews with young people and community workers on estates across London revealed «deep concerns about the lack of parental authority».

So here I am, a 45 - year old pastor and community organizer, with two masters degrees and a Ph.D., married to a highly successful social worker with a masters of her own, up to my neck in the process of filing for bankruptcy.

On the other hand, my participation in the common good is served far more by living in a community of retired church workers with whom I share many interests and commitments and who care for one another and help one another through the difficulties of aging and dying.

Those who produce under those conditions will not have to compete with others, outside the community, who pollute the environment and exploit workers.

She works as a community mental health outreach support worker with Fraser Health.

Women of Madiga bogam community traditionally were professional sex workers assigned to share their fun and pleasure with Madiga men.

They work with schools, run seminars for young married couples, meet with the large community of sex workers in the border town of Nyanza Lac, broadcast a weekly radio program, and use the natural contexts of young people — like soccer matches — to share the message of creaturely self - respect and divine love.

Those who died in the United States represent a cross section of the human community: 4,000 people from more than 80 nations, people of nearly every ethnicity and religious belief, wealthy individuals and people with very little, including low - wage immigrant workers.

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend the day with a community health worker in my home town.

Bridges is excited to continue our alliance with Floriza en Los Parajes in years to come, not only because of their high quality organic vegetables, but because of their dedication to sustainability, their workers, and the health of their community.

The workers responded to the closure decision by getting together with other stakeholders in the community, including growers, and attempting to buy the factory for themselves.

The residents, workers, and students of the area are very appreciative of the community programs my restaurant's run and thank us with their loyalty.

«Under the education umbrella, we've partnered up with a few organizations that are in the communities in which we operate that give our migrant workers access to free English classes before or after work,» Delaney says.

Present were different organizations working with peasants, farm workers, women farmers, youth, church groups, sustainable and organic agriculture practitioners and community health workers.

Banana farms that are Rainforest Alliance Certified undergo annual audits to ensure that they comply with rigorous social criteria designed to protect workers, families and nearby communities.

The Rainforest Alliance works with banana farms to help them conserve their natural resources and promote the well - being of workers and local communities.

They're concerned with factors like safe working conditions, giving back to the communities, worker education, lowering agrochemical use, waste management, wildlife protection and ecosystem and water conservation.

The remaining sources of differentiation typically fall within the social responsibility category, with premium prices still able to be charged for brands and production processes that engage the community, prioritise worker wellbeing and ensure the ethical treatment of livestock.

For coffee, it deals with an array of ecosystem issues such as water conservation, and as well as use of chemicals, community relations, and fair treatment of workers.

«With more innovators joining forces under POIG, we move closer to achieving POIG's vision: a responsible supply chain that has broken the link between palm oil production and the destruction of forests and peatlands, the exploitation of communities and workers, and climate change,» concluded co-chair Matthias.

On the production side, RA indicates it will «provide farmers with the information and tools necessary to improve their management practices and make them more responsible with regards to the environment, workers and communities.»

The U.S. food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry has facilities in 30,000 communities, generates $ 1 trillion in sales annually, contributes $ 415 billion in added value to the economy every year and is the single largest U.S. manufacturing industry with 1.7 million manufacturing workers.

She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, and apprenticed under the worker - ownership of Three Stone Hearth in Berkeley, California, the first community supported kitchen (CSK) of its kind and has experience managing farmer's markets, working with a variety of artisan food producers, in restaurants, business management and organizations promoting urban food sustainability, local food economies and seasonality.

I've done a lot of work with the community, been a development worker in the area, working with 19 - 25 year old males, some of whom were fathers, obviously, but this is the first time specifically with dads as dads.

We are a community of blue - collar workers, financial professionals, musicians, health professionals, artists, educators and other diverse individuals with a plethora of abilities and disabilities.

Nevertheless, they still want to stay involved,» says Shane Ryan, 41, chief executive of the award - winning charity Working With Men (WWM), which recruits its workers from the communities from which the young dads come, and sticks with them to improve their qualifications, employment opportunities and life skiWith Men (WWM), which recruits its workers from the communities from which the young dads come, and sticks with them to improve their qualifications, employment opportunities and life skiwith them to improve their qualifications, employment opportunities and life skills.