Sentences with phrase «young people and their communities»

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».

He said: «It won't protect young people and communities because it is the same failed old recipe of criminalisation and under - funding that has led to record numbers of vulnerable people dying.»

We have wide - ranging contacts within the construction industry, including a Trustee body made up of senior figures within the sector, and expertise in working with young people and their communities.

The impact on these young people and the community will be real and tangible.

Valor's SEL work is based on ideas that Daren Dickson developed throughout his career as a social worker, clinical and program director, and social justice advocate, including work he did at the nonprofit Seneca Center in the San Francisco Bay Area with vulnerable young people and communities.

It supports educators, young people and community members who are willing to improve the quality of their lives and the quality of their local realities.

Interact with young people and community members outside of the Harvard campus, learn from them how they understand social justice.

support efforts to make maker - centered learning experiences more inclusive and accessible to a wider and more diverse array of young people and communities (since a key tenet of the maker movement is that making is better when fueled by the experiences of a wide range of backgrounds)

In addition to celebrating the value and impact of afterschool programs on young people and their communities, Lights On Afterschool is also an opportunity to reach policy makers.

When accepting the award she said, «I believe museum education, driven by the vision of artists and the expertise of teachers, can play a critical role in fostering social and civic imagination, and can empower young people and communities to critically reflect on and shape their world.»

Maximizing Large Federal Funds to Support Opportunity Youth This new report investigates the ways in which the existing federal funding streams of WIOA, TANF, SNAP (Food Stamps) Education and Training, and Pell Grants are challenging to use and hard to combine, even when it would be in the best interest of the young person and the community to do so.

Partners Against Hate Partners Against Hate was started as a project of several nonprofits to provide educational and counteraction strategies for young people and community professionals who interact with them.

Parents, teachers, business owners, and civic leaders who work with and on behalf of young people and communities can become involved and promote ethical decisions in all facets of life.

These places and approaches cut across political perspectives, reflecting the fact that gathering the community at the schoolhouse in order to better support young people and the community is a traditional American idea.

The Foundation supports charitable initiatives and organizations working across three areas, including fostering Creativity and Culture by promoting the arts, advancing education, supporting cultural institutions and innovative projects with cutting edge talent and assisting the advancement and development of young people and communities.

Fostering Creativity and Culture by promoting the arts, advancing education, supporting cultural institutions and innovative projects with cutting edge talent; Promoting Wellbeing, supporting initiatives on women's empowerment, access to health and education and assisting the advancement and development of young people and communities; and Conserving Natural Resources through water sustainability and environmental projects to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.

In exhibitions, graphic works, and events, sometimes produced in collaboration with young people and community - based organizations, Rich creates fantastical spaces for imagining the physical and social transformation of the world.

No small feat to tackle social ills, empower young people and your community and raise eco-awareness at the same time - no doubt, we need more ideas like this and people like Stevenson.

This program is built on strong engagement principles, with Briggs and Riemer working with Elders, young people and community.

Stride Foundation is a not - for - profit, non-government organisation dedicated to improving the physical, mental and social wellbeing of young people and their communities.

The systems this Commission examined exist to serve the interests of children and young people and their communities.

Valor's SEL work is based on ideas that Daren Dickson developed throughout his career as a social worker, clinical and program director, and social justice advocate, including work he did at the nonprofit Seneca Center in the San Francisco Bay Area with vulnerable young people and communities.

This includes addressing other social determinants that contribute to social disadvantage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples such as unemployment, education, housing and community safety and focusing on building strong, resilient families, young people and communities.

Partners Against Hate Partners Against Hate was started as a project of several nonprofits to provide educational and counteraction strategies for young people and community professionals who interact with them.

Participants also discussed a range of developmental issues that impact on the cognitive functioning and mental health of Indigenous young people and their communities such as Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, petrol sniffing, physical and emotional violence and poor nutrition.

Not exact matches

The party would set a $ 15 minimum wage for federally regulated industries, and establish a Youth Community and Environment Service Corps, which would support jobs for 160,000 young people over four years at the new minimum wage.

«When communities enable aging adults to work, learn, volunteer, and participate socially and economically, the benefits accrue to younger people and the broader society as well,» the report reads.

Affirmative action continues to uplift the Asian community, particularly young people from traditionally disadvantaged Asian groups, such as Southeast Asians and low - income families.

Once Katrina happened, first off a lot of people left, but then you had a lot of people come down and do community service projects, help rebuild, and a lot of them were young people right out of college through things like AmeriCorps or Habitat for Humanity, etc..

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

The idea was to build a retirement community for young people, where anyone could come for two days or two years and practice their passions.

Back in the late 1990s, Dotzler had been a young college dropout working in a market research firm in Austin when he joined Mozilla's community of «bug reporters» — people who volunteered to download the latest prototype of the product and submit technical reports of what needed fixing.

Providing the encouragement and advice that young people need to start companies and help their communities is one of the most rewarding things we do.

Robinson and Nelson intend to focus the public reaction to their arrest toward providing opportunities for young people from underserved communities.

Here, «community» doesn't just mean where these young people live, but the social networks, Internet subcultures and media choices which reflect their personal interests and / or culture.

In addition to this training program, Starbucks will work with the community to leverage existing programs that help connect young people with internships, apprenticeships and jobs, and foster the type of dialogue and engagement needed for continued social change.

The Canada Service Corps is to be the new youth service program to help instil a sense of service, community, and work ethic among young people.

«When a young person is starting his or her career, that individual needs advice, inspiration, and connections with others in the business community.

I enjoy being one of the young pillars of the community and a person who is here to help others achieve success.

We're teaming up with @NAACP and these celebrities to send 17 buses of young people from communities impacted by gun violence around the country to the #MarchForOurLives in Washington D.C. tomorrow: https://t.co/7vbOJmqQkN @AMarch4OurLives pic.twitter.com/BJ 4uzPGlBs

He is also very active in his community with board positions that include City Year, an organization that recruits young people for community service in 24 U.S. cities, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

By investing in pioneering individuals, non-profits and mission driven companies who dare to re-imagine the possible, PSF has helped to bring about important breakthroughs — from cancer research and small scale agriculture to criminal justice reform and educational opportunities for young people in communities around the world.

«The B.C. Liberals have made it next to impossible for young British Columbians to access the training and education they need to apply for jobs in their own communities, and the results of this short sighted planning is an economic crisis among young people in this province,» said Eby.

Reload Greece is the Hub of Youth Entrepreneurship in London, aiming to ensure that young people will develop skills in entrepreneurship and social innovation that will help their communities develop both socially and economically.

While churches across the country continued to run foodbanks, offer support to young people and invest in their communities through 2017, there was really only one issue that the mainstream media was interested in.

They should be helping these people and focusing on trying to safe the young in the community to keep them out of gangs.

He still wants to fight the opioid crisis, but now, he's entering into the ministry, where he can help communities and young people spiritually — while also addressing the public health crisis.

Contemplative communities, during the Year of Faith, should pray specifically for the renewal of the faith among the People of God and for a new impulse for its transmission to the young.

«The reality is that more and more we're seeing young people carry knives out of fear, out of peer pressure and I guess as a response to the fact that they see in their communities people being hurt and feeling unsafe,» she says.

A young Catholic should be aware that each person has a mission in life and should fulfil it, and that true fulfilment involves looking at the whole of life's responsibilities - home and family and community as well as just work.