At its height, the Second Mile had a budget of millions of dollars and programs that reached tens of thousands of children.
"Parents are in a really tough position, " says Dr. Elissa Jelalian, a staff psychologist at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center who focuses on the development of intervention programs for children.
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There was just nowhere to put children like these because of a lack of children's programs in Georgia.
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Reno, who spoke with reporters at her weekly briefing, said the goal should be "firm, fair punishment that fits the crime, " coupled with prevention programs that keep children out of trouble in the first place.
What's more, last year Weight Watchers limited the access of children to its programs.
States could shift 30 percent of their welfare block grant to programs to protect and care for children, the most vulnerable part of the welfare population.
Many left their downtown jobs early, with some saying they had to go home to take care of children after school programs were canceled or baby sitters couldn't make it.
Expenses for a child in nursery school, preschool, or similar programs for children below the level of kindergarten are deductible for purposes of the child care tax credit if they otherwise qualify as child care.
On March 19th and 20th, NCMEC is sponsoring a conference called Safe to Compete: Protecting Child Athletes from Sexual Abuse, where it will convene more than 50 youth-serving organizations, including the YMCA, Special Olympics, USA Swimming, USA Gymnastics, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to talk about the issue of preventing abuse of children in sports programs.
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They chose to protect my tax cut, while cutting 140, 000 unemployed workers out of their job training programs, 100, 000 working families out of their child care assistance, and worst of all, while cutting 300, 000 poor children out of their after-school programs, when we know it keeps them off the streets, out of trouble, in school, learning, going to college and having a good life.
Rivera also spent part of her life volunteering at the Love Foundation, an organization that promotes programs to support immigrants, children with cancer, women victims of violence, reports CNN Mexico.
Instead, his second term focused on deficit reduction, Medicare reform, implementing welfare reform and narrower measures such as the creation of the v-chip to protect under-aged television viewers from edgy programs and the expansion of Medicaid to cover children.
He also said he opposes sex-ed programs in the nation's public schools that teach abstinence only, saying such programs only increase the number of abortions and unwanted children.
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One of the parents who filed the lawsuit, Alexey Kuptsov, a mathematics adjunct professor at New York University, said his daughter received a perfect score but would have to take her chance in a lottery of up to 1, 500 children for one of about 300 kindergarten seats in the most competitive programs.
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Achilles has also developed a number of specialized programs like Achilles Kids, which works with more than 4, 000 disabled children, and the Freedom Team of Wounded Veterans, which has helped more than 1, 000 disabled veterans finish marathons across the country.
Local booksellers promote the works of local authors and many conduct reading programs for children.
The 2007 reauthorization of Head Start included several provisions to strengthen the quality of Head Start programs that serve over one million children every year across the country and in US territories.
What the military does for children in their programs has the real possibility of affecting their adult lives.
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Figures 7A and 7B show how, as a result of this mandate, the number of children with disabilities served in federally supported programs for the disabled has grown steadily over the past decade, as has the share such pupils represent in total enrollment.
The study points to a need to make sure that programs in place for military families are consistent with the needs of the children, she said.
Depending on the level of disability, educational programs should be made to be inclusive so that children benefit from interaction with their peers and class material.
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First, as a national organization with 125 agencies, gaining holistic insight into all our volunteers, the children that we serve, and the success of our programs is difficult to gather, as you might imagine.
Head Start, one of our few preschool programs, would have to drop about 70, 000 children from its rolls due to cuts.
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These refundable credits lift more children out of poverty than any other program or category of programs at any level of government.
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In fact, electrical engineer Limor Fried founded Adafruit Industries, an e-commerce website that distributes a veritable treasure trove of toys, electronics and ways for children to learn to build programs, apps and more.
The idea of results-based finance is simple: instead of financing programs aimed at achieving your goal (whether lighting homes or immunizing children), pay a financial reward for the achievement of the goal and let the market find the best way to achieve it.
Ms. KRISTIN HARRISON (University of Illinois): What we studied was advertising embedded within the television programs that children ages six to 11 watch most.
In 1997, Hopfan founded Free Arts NYC to provide under-served children and families with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs to foster the self-confidence and resiliency.
The Department of Health and Human Services has a guide to low-cost insurance programs especially for children.
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