Sentences with phrase «youth advocates met»

Lawmakers and youth advocates met last month to discuss these ongoing safety concerns.

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On Wednesday morning, on the day before the Mayor was to unveil his budget, advocates that included representatives from Alianza Dominicana, Children's Aid Society, the Children Arts and Sciences Workshop, ACDP, Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI), Community League of the Heights (C.L.O.T.H.), the Police Athletic League (P.A.L.), and representatives from local New York City Councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares and Herman D. Farrell, among others, gathered in an early morning meeting to brain - storm about strategies to ward off the cuts.

CITY HALL — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to seize control of the state's troubled juvenile justice system was met with resounding support from youth advocates and City Council members at a council hearing Wednesday.

Advocates have continued to gather together for meeting and days of action in anticipation of the May 24th New York City Council Youth and Education budget hearing.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

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The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

But if you want to address the real - world scenario, one in which millions of underserved youth don't meet those descriptions and don't have a high - quality school available, it's time for school choice advocates to dispense with ideology, engage regulators, and get serious about a policy environment that promotes measurable quality, scale, and access.

All those needs can be met if more funding and legislative attention were dedicated to helping struggling schools like Travis, according to advocates Austin Voices for Education and Youth and the district's largest labor union Education Austin.

To help develop these young animal advocates, we encourage school classes, day care centers, and youth groups of all types to share a humane learning experience — at your meeting place or our Shelter.

Youth participate directly in local government decision - making and petition City Councils for adoption of locally - tailored climate recovery laws, testify in public meetings of the City Council, and advocate at work sessions with local government leaders.

With Baltimore Beyond Plastic, Wayner and Thompson are tackling plastic pollution in their community through local school visits, educational workshops, rallies, youth summits, and meetings with local legislators to advocate for legislation.

• Assisted in creating and implementing youth programs to meet the individual requirements of each participant • Engaged participants in conversation to determine what their specific needs are and provided feedback to youth worker • Provided support in determining the need for intervention in issues such as drug and alcohol abuse • Assisted participants in determining the type of services and resources they needed, and arranged for them to be made available • Acted as participants» advocate in front of social services and government departments

Developed youth leadership programming; cultivated partnerships with regional non-profits, businesses, and other governmental agencies; planned large and small - scale special events; wrote departmental grants and supervised mini-grant process for NC Youth Advisory Council; prepared and managed budgets; recruited and supervised volunteers; served as youth advocate to local and state agencies, boards, and schools; conducted meetings; prepared reports, newsletters, correspondence, and other materyouth leadership programming; cultivated partnerships with regional non-profits, businesses, and other governmental agencies; planned large and small - scale special events; wrote departmental grants and supervised mini-grant process for NC Youth Advisory Council; prepared and managed budgets; recruited and supervised volunteers; served as youth advocate to local and state agencies, boards, and schools; conducted meetings; prepared reports, newsletters, correspondence, and other materYouth Advisory Council; prepared and managed budgets; recruited and supervised volunteers; served as youth advocate to local and state agencies, boards, and schools; conducted meetings; prepared reports, newsletters, correspondence, and other materyouth advocate to local and state agencies, boards, and schools; conducted meetings; prepared reports, newsletters, correspondence, and other materials.

An administrative or mangerial position which would benefit from my experience as an advocate for youth and families, developing new programs, colaborating with community resources to better meet the needs of the community, facilitating community action