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< Back Disability Language Style Guide As language, perceptions and social mores change at a seemingly faster and faster rate, it is becoming increasingly difficult for journalists and other communicators to figure out how to refer to people with disabilities. Even the term “disability” is no longer universally accepted. This style guide, developed by the National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University, is intended to help. It covers almost 200 words and terms commonly used when referring to disability, most of which are not covered in The Associated Press style guide.

< Back SOS: A Handbook For Survivors of Suicide This is a brief handbook to help people who have experienced a loss by suicide cope with their emotions and questions.

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< Back Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC MissionHealthy PlacesCollaborating to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health – through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats.CDC seeks to accomplish its mission by working withrtners throughout the nation and the world to * monitor health, * detect and investigate health problems, * conduct research to enhance prevention, * develop and advocate sound public health policies, * implement prevention strategies, * promote healthy behaviors, * foster safe and healthful environments, * provide leadership and training. Those functions are the backbone of CDC′s mission. Each of CDC′s component organizations undertakes these activities in conducting its specific programs. The steps needed to accomplish this mission are also based on scientific excellence, requiring well-trained public health practitioners and leaders dedicated to high standards of quality and ethical practice.Health and Prevention services

< Back Meadowlands Gymnastics Probably more than any other sport, gymnastics develops in the successful gymnast all the "BEST" physical, mental and moral virtues that make up the nature of a truly admirable person. At the same time however, it requires of the gymnast the best that he or she can deliver, before success can be achieved. It is the aim of the Meadowlands Gymnastics Training Center and its staff to develop the best gymnasts - CHAMPIONS - by providing its students with the BEST coaching experience and skill, BEST training facilities, BEST competition, where, after all, championship qualities emerge and are proven.

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< Back Ivy Hill Therapeutic Equestrian Center Our Mission: Ivy Hill Therapeutic Equestrian Center is committed to estalishing, maintaining and delivering professional programs designed to enhance the lives of those individuals with physical, social, educational or psychological challenges. Camps (Summer, Day, or Other)

< Back DAD'S RESOURCE CENTER The DRC is committed to providing education, resources and advocacy for dads who are separated or divorced and are determined to uphold their sacred responsibility as fathers. Our approach is to work constructively (including within the civil legal, government and human services systems) to enable and help fathers play the role that their children need. We are dedicated to helping fathers succeed. Members and Affiliates Centre County Council for Human Services Centre County Domestic and Sexual Violence Task Force Pennsylvania Child Welfare Council Pennsylvania Children and Youth Administrators Pennsylvania Child Support Enforcement Parental Advisory Board Pennsylvania Greater Father Family Involvement Campaign Helping Fathers Transition Into Separated Family Structure Prepare fathers for the emotional and psychological stresses of their new situation of separation and divorce. Help fathers be successful and effective as parents in their new situation. Reinforce the data supported findings that children are much better off when both parents are actively engaged in their lives. Educate and prepare fathers for how to best deal with the new involvement and intervention of the agencies, legal community, and courts in their lives. Provide fathers with the understanding, education, and resources to help them prepare for and deal with human service agencies, attorneys, legal entities, and the court. This includes efforts to help secure adequate and proper legal assistance. Provide fathers with the resources to effectively transition into a separated family setting or structure. This includes an awareness of balancing the need to co-parent in addition to transitioning into the role of a single parent. Provide fathers with the skills and resources needed to parent alone as well as co-parent. This includes providing concepts and social scripts to help ensure dads continued and meaningful relationships with their children. We want to help make both parents aware of the problems, stresses, and harmful situations that can negatively impact their sons and daughters thrust into the new separated family setting. Emphasize the need to minimize negative behaviors and confrontations for the benefit and the well-being of the children. Encourage awareness of the problems, situations, and stresses on children thrust into the new setting of separated parents. Communicate and work with human services agencies and the legal community to ensure that the important role that a father plays in his children's lives is understood, encouraged, and maximized. Work with these professionals to identify and remove barriers that hinder dad's involvement in their children's lives. Identify and create an awareness of misconceptions and biases that might cast single or divorced fathers in a negative light in the eyes of the human services system, courts, or community at large.

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