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  Welcome to YWCA of Salem Oregon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Ten families reside at the shelter at one time for an average of three months.
The goal of the shelter is to assist families in accomplishing their dream of returning to a sustainable living situation so they can take their place as contributing members of the community.
Families develop a plan with the case manager and review and update it weekly to make sure they are on track to return to the community.
www.ywcasalem.org /sos.html   (450 words)

  
 Ages and Stages: Families   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Families often have to adapt to the temporary challenge of long-term illness of a family member, and they also play an important role in nudging a disabled member to achieve as much as possible.
In each of these single-parent families, the marriage had failed, but the mothers felt the families had succeeded because they were able to avoid the stress of continued marital discord and also take advantage of some aspects of their singlehood.
The families pointed out many advantages of having a single parent: life was simpler and easier with only one adult in the home because the mother did not have to cater to a husband, there was less tension and conflict, and the household seemed to be more peaceful (p.
sesd.sk.ca /psychology/psych30/ejournal-childhood/agesandstages_families.htm   (5500 words)

  
 Cherokee Families of the Ridge - Watie Party
The Cherokee families described at this website belonged to the "Ridge Party" or "Treaty Party" and had been in favor of a Federal Government subsidized, voluntary removal to lands west of the Mississippi River.
These families purchased land and prospered during the years prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
The suffering and hardships endured by the families of the Cherokee Nation up to, during and just after the time of the Indian Removal are almost unimaginable to people of the modern era.
members.tripod.com /cherokee1838   (1342 words)

  
 Ten Broeck Hospitals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Ten Broeck - KMI is a 94-bed hospital offering a full continuum of inpatient, partial and outpatient services for adolescents, adults and seniors.
Ten Broeck - Dupont is a 66-bed hospital offering a full continuum of inpatient, partial and outpatient services for children and adults.
Ten Broeck Hospital will strive to set the standard for excellence in the field of behavioral health care and will maintain its leadership role by treating each patient as a respected individual of our community.
www.tenbroeck.com /abou.htm   (313 words)

  
 Russell County Stronger Families
The mean family income for Russell County is $26,502 and for Kansans is $32,966 (Governor's Economic and Demographic Report, 1997-1998).
People who work long hours and have family and community responsibilities have created a lack of balance that has resulted in stress-related conditions becoming the number-one debilitating factor in the workplace.
Ten families will develop and implement a plan to achieve personal family goals.
www.oznet.ksu.edu /dp_prev/1999/99YFCD/Rsjpfamily.htm   (840 words)

  
 Ten Broeck Hospitals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mental health and substance abuse issues are complex problems that impact not only the individual, but their family and friends as well.
Self-referrals are accepted, as well as from local and regional healthcare professionals who privately refer individuals and families to Ten Broeck Hospital.
Ten Broeck Hospital is dedicated to providing quality treatment at an affordable cost in a safe and supportive environment.
www.tenbroeck.com /cont_admi.htm   (343 words)

  
 Barely Getting By: Working Families in America | Connect for Kids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jones and Morgan are one of ten families profiled in Lives on the Line: American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet (Westview Press, 2001), a book that combines research with real stories of families struggling to get by in America.
The families represent the diversity of the low-income families in America: four are white, two Hispanic, three fl and one Pacific Islander.
Several of the families seem to be eligible for food stamps but are not receiving them, either because they're unaware of the program or because caseworkers have provided faulty information.
www.connectforkids.org /node/289   (1137 words)

  
 Many Families Turn to Food Pantries for Help
The question was asked of low-income families (families that reported income below 200 percent of the federal poverty thresholds in the prior year) and was designed to mirror one asked by the Census Bureau in its Current Population Survey (CPS).
Seven in ten nonelderly families that used food pantries had earned income in the past year, and over half had children under age 18 (figure 1).
Almost three in ten of the families that used food pantries in the past 12 months had incomes between 100 and 150 percent, and nearly two in ten had incomes between 150 and 200 percent of the federal poverty thresholds, representing 14.7 and 10.5 percent, respectively, of all families in these income categories.
www.urban.org /url.cfm?ID=310895   (1363 words)

  
 Orwellproject.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After completing their first task, families travel to Pennsylvania where they must paddle a rowboat across the Delaware River, the same place where George Washington famously crossed the Delaware during the Revolutionary War.
At every destination, each family must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical, and o­nly when the tasks have been completed will they learn their next destination.
Families who are the farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning $1 million.
www.orwellproject.com /print.php?sid=2373   (343 words)

  
 Children's Defense Fund
The average monthly number of TANF families decreased in 37 states and reflects an overalll seven percent decrease from 2,269,000 families in FY 2000.
In 2001, the average family had 2.6 members, including two recipient children marked down from an average of 2.8 members in 1999 and 4.0 in 1969.
While few families remain on welfare continuously, a newly enrolled family could be expected to accumulate a lifetime six years of assistance.
www.childrensdefense.org /familyincome/welfare/basicfacts.aspx   (624 words)

  
 Ways of Wisdom offers information about Sustainable Living and Living More Simply
The study involves identifying ten families in rural Northeast Minnesota who are living a sustainable lifestyle and then conducting onsite interviews with each of them.
From the ten families, five were selected for additional interviews and video recordings of key elements of their lifestyle.
The candidate families included in this study are those that earn a portion of their income from resources on their own property, have an ethic of stewardship, employ appropriate technologies, practice self-reliance, and cooperate with others in their community.
www.waysofwisdom.com /studies.htm   (356 words)

  
 Ten Mile River Scout Camps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Ten Mile River will be available for families to use on weekends during the non-summer camp months from September through May. Ten Mile River is certain to give you and your family a great weekend camping experience.
Family Camp is located in the deep pines of TMR a few miles from each of our five camps.
Family Camp is only minutes from Narrowsburg, N.Y. Just a short trip to pick up any food supplies or visit historic Fort Delaware, a popular tourist stop for Scouts and families.
www.bsa-gnyc.org /tmr.htm   (972 words)

  
 KIFI - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Some families dream about owning their own home, but doubt it could really happen.
Ten families in Ucon work together to help each other build their houses, and this is not the only neighborhood where individuals are constructing their own homes.
These families dedicate at least 30 hours a week to the construction of the homes.
www.localnews8.com /home/2367556.html   (364 words)

  
 Families Helping Families
He didn't know her but she told him that she was the mother of family #8, and she wanted to thank him for putting her family on "the list." She said everything she was wearing had been sent to her (in her size) by Families Helping Families (Kathie and Jerry Brown at ADI tech).
Her mom called to say that Hannah would like Families Helping Families to use the money, so she was given the address of family #24, and they sent it directly to them.
Amy and her family in Mississippi (cousins to the Cepaks) saw the list and bought plenty of bedding, three temporary mattresses, and much more for this family.
members.cox.net /familieshelpingfamilies/families_helping_families_Christmas2005.htm   (1042 words)

  
 the Forum | Devolution, Welfare Reform, and Wellbeing Study: New York Social Indicators Survey
In comparison to 1997, more families had some financial assets and at least moderate affluence, more considered their neighborhoods to be good and safe, fewer were crime victims, and more were satisfied with life in the city and with city services in 1999.
The same proportion of families were poor and had zero or negative assets in both years.
Families who were poor, who were headed by an immigrant adult, or who had children, continued to lag their more advantaged counterparts in financial and economic resources, living conditions, and satisfaction with life in the city.
www.researchforum.org /project_findings_32.html   (1072 words)

  
 Region XIII Education Service Center
While many are at home with families over the Thanksgiving holidays enjoying large plates of turkey and potatoes or deciding among the pumpkin or apple pie, many others are left to spend the holidays without a special meal.
The project adopted approximately ten families the first year, but it has steadily increased the number of adoptions to more than 150 families.
Families receive the basics for a traditional Thanksgiving meal such as potatoes, gravy, yams, biscuits and a gift card to buy a turkey or ham.
www.esc13.net /hep/baskets.html   (195 words)

  
 Capital News 9 | 24 Hour Local News | YOUR NEWS | Ten families homeless after fire
Muller and her family planned on moving into a new home in February.
Muller said she and her family are devastated by the loss, but feel lucky to be alive.
Ten families are homeless after a massive fire in Troy.
www.capitalnews9.com /content/your_news?ArID=54830   (350 words)

  
 KryssTal : Language Families
Languages in the same family, share many common grammatical features and many of the key words, especially older words, show their common origin.
The most widely studied family of languages and the family with the largest number of speakers.
This family are a scattered group of languages in Asia.
www.krysstal.com /langfams.html   (1095 words)

  
 Hetq Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
There are ten families living in the hotel in the town of Berd in the Tavush Marz, five of them refugee families from various regions of Azerbaijan.
There is another possibility too, to privatize the building, except for one wing, which will be left for these ten families," the mayor explains.
There are thirty families in Berd who represent the most vulnerable layer of society.
www.hetq.am /eng/society/0406-berd-1.html   (935 words)

  
 A Commitment to Agriculture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It was obvious that at some stage in the lives of each of these young farmers, a definite commitment had been made to choose farming as a way of life, and to stick to the commitment.
The degree of commitment varied somewhat among families, but was strong enough that most couples indicated they were not considering any alternative to farming as a profession.
It was a refreshing experience to visit with each family, see first hand what they have already accomplished and to hear of their plans, hopes and dreams for the future.
www.ag.auburn.edu /aaes/webpress/1989/committment.htm   (343 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Families Apart: Ten Keys to Successful Co-Parenting: Books: Melinda Blau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Families Apart deals with the difficult relationships between divorced spouses, their children, and their extended families.
Ten years ago, I stood weak-kneed behind a table in a small, dusty courtroom in New York City, anxiously fingering a fifty-eight-page separation agreementthe blueprint for my new life.
Melinda Blau is not a family therapist or psychiatrist, she is a journalist and co-parent.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/039952150X?v=glance   (1245 words)

  
 About: Strengthening Hawaiian Families
SHF prevents substance abuse and related problems by improving family relationships and functioning, parenting skills, and children's social skills and by reducing behavioral problems among children.
The prevention intervention is based on evidence demonstrating the link between poor family functioning and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use as well as literature delineating risk and protective factors unique to Pacific Island and Asian families with elementary school-aged children.
The SHF model provides the tools and process for elementary-school aged children and families to build on existing strengths through clarification of family and cultural values, family skills building, and nurturing connections among families, schools, and their communities.
www.pubinfo.vcu.edu /VaBP/program_details.asp?id=484   (295 words)

  
 Strengthening Hawaii Families
Trained facilitators provide families with the opportunity to discover for themselves what will work best based on their values and vision.
The Strengthening Hawaii Families program is age and developmentally appropriate and provides a culturally comprehensive framework that allows communities to easily and effectively adapt and implement the program for diverse populations.
Being a values and assets-based program, SHF is appropriate for families in multicultural group settings, which are inclusive and embracing of all ages, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
www.strengtheningfamilies.org /html/programs_1999/30_SHF.html   (607 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Last Modified: 12/1/2005 7:23:48 PM FEMA moved ten New Orleans evacuated families out of their motel rooms on Thursday, and Home Action USA moved them into new homes in Fairburn, where they will live mortgage-free for one year while they try to get their lives back together.
The families raced to see their new homes, and limited furniture which was already in place in each unit.
The organization will provide the first-year mortgage payments to the families, and at the end of the year, they will have an option to buy.
www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=72680   (355 words)

  
 abc13.com: News from KTRK, around Texas - the Lone Star State
Before leaving, the family members were detained for 10 days at the newly opened T. Don Hutto residential facility, a 500-bed facility in Williamson County designed to house illegal immigrant families caught by immigration authorities, officials said.
Families caught at the border were often released in the U.S. with only notices asking them to return for a court hearing.
After the opening of the Williamson County center on May 15, families caught at the border can be kept together until their deportation instead of being held at separate facilities.
abclocal.go.com /ktrk/story?section=state&id=4232778   (462 words)

  
 OGCDC - News
The capital for each family is 65 USD in which each commune has ten families participated in.
In 1999, the Noriko loan program for poor families with disabled children in Cam An commune, Cam Lo district, Quang tri Province was carried with ten families participated in.
After two years, these families have had remarkable changes such as they do not face the starveling situation around year, former is one cow or pig but now they have two or three ones.
www.ogcdc.org /news.php?id=29   (595 words)

  
 How many home school families attend your church?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
One family I know who had been homeschooling for years, are putting their kids in the church's school this year and the mother will be teaching history there.
Our church has between 6-8 HS families- I am not sure if all the HSing families from last year are doing it again this year, and I know of one family that is taking their kids out of an ACE Christian school and HSing this year.
I know of several families who have homeschooled in the past and now ps, hs some children and ps other children, are getting ready to hs next year, or have graduated all their children and now they are in college.
forums.crosswalk.com /m_378246/printable.htm   (3186 words)

  
 Southpinellas: Private elementary school plans to add grades 6-8
Our families are just too important to us not to take this next step," said Holly Carlson, director of the LCC Day School.
So far, 10 families have committed, according to school officials.
Contracts were mailed last week to these and other families who have said they want their children to remain at LCC after graduating from the elementary school.
www.sptimes.com /News/123001/news_pf/SouthPinellas/Private_elementary_sc.shtml   (658 words)

  
 10th Annual Fetal Surgery Family Reunion Gathers Families from Across the U.S. and Canada
Ten families attended the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at Children's Hospital's first reunion for current and former fetal patients in 1997; more than 150 families attended the 10th annual reunion today!
Ten families attended the Center's first reunion for current and former fetal patients in 1997; more than 150 families attended the 10th annual reunion today!
"The reunion is an opportunity to update families on what the team is doing and we hear what the families are doing and every year the number of families increases." Although birth defects are common, obstetricians may only prenatally diagnose a few in their career.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/06-25-2006/0004386545&EDATE=   (991 words)

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