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The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.
Oskar’s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar’s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ‘friends’, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his arms, legs and body. Experienced foster carer Cathy Glass is asked to look after him, but as the weeks pass her concerns deepen. Oskar is far too quiet for a child of six and is clearly scared of something...
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2014-
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The EPIC Resource Center was created as a collaborative, comprehensive effort to systematically enhance the knowledge, skill base and capacity of justice system professionals in evidence-based practices (EBPs). The mission of EPIC is to collaborate with justice partners using research-informed approaches to improved outcomes in Colorado communities.
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2016-
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The School Health Professional Grant (SHPG) Program was created to increase the presence of school-based health professionals (school nurses, school counselors, school social workers and school psychologists) within secondary schools. The purpose of the SHPG is to improve prevention, early intervention, and health care services and programs, in an effort to reduce the risks of marijuana and other substance use by secondary school students.
10) Ghost country
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[1998]
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Luisa, a has-been opera singer; Madeleine, a homeless woman; and Mara, the rebellious granddaughter of a wealthy doctor; are drawn together in pursuit of the right to live and worship beneath a Chicago hotel where they reportedly have witnessed the Virgin Mary's blood seeping through a wall.
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2013.
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Psychotropic medication are often prescribed to treat challenging behaviors and mental health issues. While necessary in some cases, numerous studies have demonstrated that the rates of psychotropic medication prescriptions are disproportionately high among children in foster care.
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"...If your business, agency, or organization works with people from poverty, only a deeper understanding of their challenges-and strengths-will help you partner with them to create opportunities for success. Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals. Based in part on Dr. Ruby K. Payne's myth shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to...
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[2020]
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"A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s"--
Donaldina Cameron arrived at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895 intending to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants. She discovers that the job is much more complicated...
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