All at-risk children should be identified, monitored and given good advice, but this costs money.
The organization has touched the lives of more than 28, 000 at-risk children and parents over the past fifteen years.
Cox also serves on the board of the American School in Marrakech and started a program for the Aangan Trust in Mumbai, India, that teaches at-risk children how to garden.
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Word spread about my work with youth education, and I was invited to help create a programme in Pakistan to improve the quality of education at a school serving at-risk children from poor families.
Ten years later, the Brooke Jackman Foundation, which they founded to promote literacy for at-risk children, has donated nearly 100, 000 books and 10, 000 backpacks filled with school supplies to kids in the greater New York region.
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This year's recipients include the Shakespeare Remix program in New York, where inner-city teens adapt and perform Shakespearean texts to reflect their own lives, and the Harmony Project in Los Angeles, which provides free music instruction to at-risk children.
As to the House-approved spending cuts bill, White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage dismissed the GOP alternative as "nothing more than a dangerous diversion" for eliminating federal funding by negatively impacting millions of seniors, disabled individuals and poor and at-risk children.
It is such a joy to see that underprivileged, "at-risk" and disabled children have a wonderful summer camp experience.
However, in the U.S., the current immunization schedule for this disease begins for high-risk children at two years of age and is recommended for all at age 11.
Children in at-risk groups, such as those with asthma, heart conditions or cerebral palsy, are already eligible to receive the vaccine from their GP.
All the study participants had a family history of allergic disease such as eczema or asthma - making their children at higher risk of developing such illnesses themselves.
She had been rescued from sex trafficking by Agape International Missions (AIM), a non-profit for trafficked and at risk children and teenagers.
The minister added that extra funding and support was being targeted at schools with low results, while more one-to-one and small group tuition would help children "at risk of falling behind".
During her incarceration, the site says, Atkins worked to help at-risk youth, violent crime victims and homeless children, among others.
However, due to budget pressures throughout the health-care system, children are at risk of missing out on exactly that kind of specialized treatment and prevention, Hilfer says.
During her incarceration, the site says, Atkins has worked to help at-risk youth, victims of violent crimes and homeless children.
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Our First Stop Resource Center's housing program provides temporary housing and support services for these at-risk and homeless female veterans, with and without children, and families of soldiers and veterans.
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The WIC program, which covers 45 percent of infants across the country and more than 5 million children younger than 5, is "the single largest point of access to health services for low-income preschool children who are at the highest risk for low vaccination coverage, " according to the administration.
You know, those freedom-haters who who WANT their children to be at risk.
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"Those mortality concerns have, I understand, been resolved, which is why low-risk children's cardiac surgery has been resumed at the hospital, " he said.
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Hepatitis A and B can be prevented with vaccines, which are recommended for all children -- and for adults who are at high risk of contracting viral hepatitis.
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Young children and the elderly are especially at risk for heat-related injuries, the service said.
Children exposed to long-term violence are also at risk for psycho-somatic symptoms such as insomnia and nightmares, as well as prone to addiction and aggressive behaviour.
Skills-based capacity building and training programs have helped to teach trades and vocational capabilities, and socio-educational organizations have emerged to help provide guidance and extra-curricular activities to individuals and children who may otherwise be at risk of recruitment into extremist groups, be that through lack of other options or economic coercion.
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Children who receive bone marrow transplants may be at long-term risk of diabetes, say researchers.
Under Facebook's policy, no-one under 13 is allowed to be a member but lawyers for her father claim its open registration system allows children to log-in and that could put them at risk from paedophiles.
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Focused on the at-risk population of approximately 1.8 million women of child-bearing age and children, this programme is developing a comprehensive approach to food security, child and maternal nutrition, which includes intense awareness-raising through media.
The next polio vaccination campaign will be held 19-21 September, targeting 16.5 million children in the districts at the highest risk.
In court on Wednesday, a lawyer for the girl's father claimed Facebook's open registration system allowed children to log-in and warned that it could put them at risk from paedophiles.
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Though experts encourage diagnosing children as early as possible, with some saying that 1-year-olds can be identified as being at high risk for autism-related conditions, they caution that early diagnosis is challenging and some children may be mislabeled.
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