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Grant Goes Toward Improved Nursing Home Care
Original Source Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation for Nursing has been awarded a $350,000 grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to develop a business plan for improving nursing home care nationwide. The grant money will be used to implement the Nursing Home Collaborative, a partnership between…
Author: Nurse.com
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Invest in families to keep kids in school
Original Source By Chris Fitzsimon Speaker Joe Hackney presided at a news conference with fellow House Democrats Tuesday to announce that the lawmakers were renewing their commitment made two years ago to improve the state’s high school graduation rate, though Hackney acknowledged that it’s not…
Author: The Carrboro Citizen
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DNA proposal 'will violate rights'
by KARABO KEEPILE The South African Human Rights Commission has balked at proposed legislation designed to equip police crime-fighters with a DNA database, arguing that a number of its provisions may be unconstitutional. In a public hearing in Parliament on Tuesday, the commission argued that…
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Gauteng health minister: R5bn needed for turnaround
Gauteng needs at least R5-billion to turn around its health system, a local government minister said on Wednesday. Gauteng health minister Brian Hlongwa said many people did not realise the “scale and scope of the challenges” the department faced. “If you ask me a ballpark…
Author: Mail & Guardian
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Economy prompts shift in Plus 50
Original Source By MATTHEW DEMBICKI The slumping economy and increases in layoffs have prompted community colleges that are part of a new national initiative to engage older learners to tilt their programs for that population more toward job training than other types of programs. The…
Author: Community College Times
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Two Atlantic grantees featured on Irish television programme, "Nationwide"
Link to Video Recently two Atlantic grantees were featured in media coverage on the 9 February 2009 edition of the RTÉ television programme, ” Nationwide.” Big Brother Big Sister (5:45)Orla Nix looks at the youth mentoring programme operated by Foróige, the National Youth Development Organisation Pioneering Initiative (Archways)…
Author: RTE
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New Survey Finds that State Child Welfare Budgets May Face Perfect Storm
Washington, DC — Although child welfare spending has increased for at least a decade, several factors driven by the current recession may be converging to threaten states’ capacity to serve abused and neglected children.A new Child Trends study, Federal, State, and Local Spending to Address…
Author: Child Trends
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Honours list could bolster links with US
OPINION: While the British honour leading Irish Americans, the Irish government is missing an opportunity, writes NIALL O’DOWD. Original Source by NIALL O’DOWD WILLIAM J FLYNN, former chairman of Mutual of America was recently asked by the British government to accept an honorary Commander of…
Author: Irish Times
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Susie O'Neill is seeing life differently
by Fiona Purdon OLYMPIC swimming gold medallist Susie O’Neill and her ophthalmologist husband Cliff Fairley will never forget the unbridled joy and emotion from eye surgery recipients in Vietnam. One grandmother’s reaction especially left an impression after O’Neill and Fairley were part of a Fred…
Author: The Courier Mail (Australia)
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Op-Ed: Our Greatest National Shame
Original Source By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Op-Ed Columnist So maybe I was wrong. I used to consider health care our greatest national shame, considering that we spend twice as much on medical care as many European nations, yet American children are twice as likely to die before…
Author: The New York Times
