Sentences with phrase «women and children experiencing»

The evening raised just over $ 10,000, of which 100 per cent is directed to Regard En Elle, an emergency shelter for women and children experiencing violence.
If a Head Start program determines from the community assessment that there are families experiencing homelessness in the area, or children in foster care that could benefit from services, the program may reserve one or more enrollment slots for pregnant women and children experiencing homelessness and children in foster care, when a vacancy occurs.
Following five years of lobbying the NT Government, the Yuendumu Women's Centre received funding in 2003 to establish a safe house to assist women and children experiencing family violence.
Provides services to women and children experiencing domestic and family violence and homelessness.
Dawn House provides services to women and children experiencing domestic and family violence including:
Alice Springs Women's Shelter (ASWS) provides a range of support for women and children experiencing domestic and family violence.
Gives women and children experiencing domestic or family violence the choice to remain in contact with their communities, schools and support systems by assisting them to remain in their own home if they wish to by providing:
We educate the community about social and legal changes needed to improve responses to women and children experiencing family violence.
Every contribution makes a huge difference to the support and assistance we can provide women and children experiencing family violence; as well as our capacity to inform and equip professionals and the general community.
Steps Toward Safety: Improving Systemic and Community Responses for Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (PDF - 1,720 KB) Family Violence Prevention Fund (2007) Examines lessons learned from programs for women and children experiencing domestic violence.
Open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, Midway provides women and children experiencing homelessness with much more than shelter and meals including case management, support groups, job training, mental health services, and a Children's Program.

Not exact matches

It's more reminiscent of a child being noisy in a classroom than of a terrifying, dangerous, and life - altering experience for a woman.
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children.
Karen Zebulon, owner of Gumbo, a women's and children's boutique in Brooklyn, New York, says she's had good and bad experiences with MCAs.
Four local transition homes for women and children starting over after experiencing domestic violence are beneficiaries of Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty's golf event held recently.
If I were to live up to my experiences as a child, I wouldn't have a woman doing anything in a church or a classroom because what I saw then was out of control aggression and bullying.
When you say that love is the most important thing, I hope your heart includes loving those women who have made the unthinkable, unbearable decision that spared an embryo from being born into a traumatic, awful experience... from a situation of pain and suffering... from an environment where people are incapable of loving the child or providing for that child's basic needs.
The miscarriage of a fetus at home is a lonely, physically trying, frightening, and demoralizing experience — one that culminates in the woman viewing her own dead child in a terrifying mass of blood, clot, and tissue between her legs.
The American Psychological Association notes that women who experience miscarriage are vulnerable to a whole host of other mental health issues such as postpartum depression, general anxiety / depression, and difficulty caring for existing children.
It's been my experience that religious zealots of all creeds, but here in the U.S. mostly white Christians, are the first ones to throw women, children, old people and the disabled under the bus financially so they can grab bigger tax breaks for themselves.
As was once the case with women's experience, children's experiences, worldview and psychology are not considered authoritative when constructing doctrine.
To this day, many experience less - than - human treatment, especially women and children.
It is with another woman in this world at this time that I am able to experience a radical mutuality between self and other, a mutuality that we have known since we were girl children, a mutuality that has shaped our consciousness of female - female relationships as the first and final place in which women can be most truly at home, in the most natural of social relations.
And they will experience how great a good is procreation when the woman must bring forth children in pain.
More than a few questions linger in the wake of these six attempts to reimage redemption: How, one may ask, can we experience the process of letting - go without falling victim to the surrender imagery that has done such harm to women and children, particularly in abusive situations?
The untruth comes when «traditional marriage» is offered up as a term that defines a religious concept of a God - blessed union of a young man and woman who fall in love, get married with no prior sexual experience, have children and remain together into old age.
For example, in developing a show on women who waited to have children, Oprah and her staff sought people whose experience tells the story.
WOMEN in charge, it makes sense, don't you think, we are mothers, we have sense, empathy, we heal and I know, we would never cross the line, its beyond even our adult thinking As a child that went through something similar in childhood, panished in my own psyche for rest of my life, blaming my own thoughts to be, I have not experienced life, until I came back to Heavenly Father, to trust man again...
My experience with Muslims is less than nice and I believe that Black men who go from whatever religion they were born with (Baptist usually) turn into Muslims because they see the opportunity to suppress their own black women; forcing them to wear scarfs and burkas and on their female children as well.
Jesus used his platform to create space for the bleeding woman to share her story, for the little children to come swap stories with him, and for alienated ethnic minorities to talk about their experiences and perspectives on faith.
Kathy Alexander, chair of Administrators of the City of Greater Geelong and former CEO of the Royal Children's and Royal Women's Hospitals Melbourne from 2000 to 2004, says women (or men) who take time out to raise children should focus on the positives of that experience and how it might actually make them a better leader — rather than expect negative conseChildren's and Royal Women's Hospitals Melbourne from 2000 to 2004, says women (or men) who take time out to raise children should focus on the positives of that experience and how it might actually make them a better leader — rather than expect negative consequeWomen's Hospitals Melbourne from 2000 to 2004, says women (or men) who take time out to raise children should focus on the positives of that experience and how it might actually make them a better leader — rather than expect negative consequewomen (or men) who take time out to raise children should focus on the positives of that experience and how it might actually make them a better leader — rather than expect negative consechildren should focus on the positives of that experience and how it might actually make them a better leader — rather than expect negative consequences.
Everyman woman and child knows what should be done here it's a consensus that is rarely seen just amongst the faithful, but in this case is the opinion of virtually everyone who knows even the remotest scrap of knowledge about football and this is that Arsenals current squad need a new and «golden moment» striker and also a competent and experienced DM.
But it isn't generally what the woman experiences at the birth of a child that impacts a couple so much as the whole pregnancy and postpartum period.
Heather at A Mama's Blog who has had both a c - section and a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) and has written about in the past about her c - section experience and what a c - section is really like believes the insurance situation should be alarming for all women in their child - bearing years.
And I think that, as a woman who's now in my 40s, working and raising children and having a marriage that is an absolute priority to me, it's always about pulling on my own experiences to try and find the things that I'm experiencing now that I want to put out in the worAnd I think that, as a woman who's now in my 40s, working and raising children and having a marriage that is an absolute priority to me, it's always about pulling on my own experiences to try and find the things that I'm experiencing now that I want to put out in the worand raising children and having a marriage that is an absolute priority to me, it's always about pulling on my own experiences to try and find the things that I'm experiencing now that I want to put out in the worand having a marriage that is an absolute priority to me, it's always about pulling on my own experiences to try and find the things that I'm experiencing now that I want to put out in the worand find the things that I'm experiencing now that I want to put out in the world.
Is it possible that it's some sort of generational reaction to the experiences of baby boom women of the 50s, 60s & 70s where child - rearing and homemaking were the norm?
Women who, as children, experienced parental rejection and / or had a mother who experienced depressive symptoms are at elevated risk of developing depression in the post-natal period.
Both were life - altering experiences for me and I mourn for women who never get to experience the «post birth high» or the intimacy of snuggling their child to their breast.
From my own experience, with Child 1 I couldn't pump nearly enough milk so we ended up buying lots of formula anyway (between that, the cost of the pump and the hands - free bras, the cost of the journey to get his tongue tie snipped, and the extra maternity leave I took, I may well be one of the few women to have made an overall loss from breastfeeding).
CWS experiences very high retention within our faculty and we are proud of the men and women educating our children.
I also experienced Postpartum Depression following the birth of 2nd child in 2005, which drew me to working with pregnant women and postpartum parents.
Here were some of their responses: (Within 12 hours I had over 300 responses from women who shared their experiences and the improvement they had once their child's ties were snipped or lasered...)
Wouldn't it be unusual if a pregnant woman experienced no concern about what was awaiting her — no fears related to sleepless nights, no questioning of what kind of parent she would become, how she would give attention and love to the infant without making her older child (ren) feel rejected, how she would face the financial burdens, and so on?
I'd like to state that as a woman who suffered with infertility for years and was finally able to conceive and carry my precious child through IVF and the support of specialized doctors, the VERY LAST THING I cared about was my «birthing experience
Child birth is one of the most transformational experience that a mother will go through and a couple will go through, and we get to witness this young lady becoming a woman, finding her voice, finding her power; that is one of the most beautiful things to witness.
It was sappy and low - budget and full of creepy ghost children, but I was a pretty credulous young person and for years I had the distinct impression that abortion was a traumatic experience, and that all women who had abortions regretted them and would never get more than one.
Natural birth helps women to experience the labour and birth of their child.
After supporting my sister through the birth of her first two children and attending the births of a few of my friends, I realized that I want women to feel empowered and knowledgeable to have the birth experience they desire.
Her personal experience in losing her second child changed the way she worked as a doctor and her rainbow pregnancy opened her eyes to the challenges women experiencing pregnancy after loss face.
But, according to the American Psychological Association, one in seven women will experience the more severe symptoms of postpartum depression in the weeks and even months following their child's birth, and without help, postpartum depression won't go away on its own.
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