Social Programs

"Navigating the Medicare Maze: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Healthcare Future" Are you overwhelmed by the complexities of Medicare? Do you find yourself drowning in a sea of acronyms—Part A, Part B, Part D, MA plans—and struggling to understand what they all mean for your healthcare? You're not alone. Diane Carbo's "Navigating the Medicare Maze" is the lifeline you've been searching for. In this essential guide, Diane Carbo, a seasoned expert in the field, demystifies the intricacies of Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plans. With decades of experience, she offers invaluable insights ...

La fenomenal historia de mujeres matemáticas afroamericanas de la NASA en la vanguardia del movimiento feminista y de derechos civiles, cuyos cálculos impulsaron uno de los mayores logros espaciales de Estados Unidos.

Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option. Some of the most useful and beloved institutions in American life are public options - yet they are seldom celebrated as such. These government-supported opportunities coexist peaceably alongside private options, ensuring equal access and expanding opportunity for all.

It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas—and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans in concentration camps, tearing them from their homes on the West Coast with the ostensible goal of neutralizing a supposed internal threat. At each of these camps the government places a white lawyer with contradictory instructions: provide legal counsel to the prisoners, and keep the place running.

When the US Supreme Court announced its landmark 6-3 decision to take race out of the equation for college and university admissions, it did more than just bring Affirmative Action in higher education to a screeching halt. It also fired a warning shot across the bow of businesses and governmental agencies across America: the days for workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment have an expiration date.

Empowering Literacy: The Ultimate Guide for Volunteers in Education Make a lasting impact on communities and spark a lifelong passion for learning with Empowering Literacy . This essential guide offers practical tools and strategies to help volunteers lead engaging workshops, connect with young learners, and foster a love of reading that endures. Perfect for both new and experienced volunteers, this book provides step-by-step guidance on classroom management, effective teaching techniques, and celebrating milestones.

30 Days to Stop Being Racist is a unique mindfulness workbook that will help you address and overcome racist attitudes and behaviors, and cultivate a more inclusive and equitable mindset. This 30-day program offers a transformative approach to understanding and challenging racism, with daily exercises that blend mindfulness techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, and self-reflection. You'll learn how to identify and challenge racial biases, have difficult conversations, and develop a greater sense of empathy and understanding. This book is part of a series of mindfulness workbooks, each ...

Social anxiety is a crippling fear that keeps us from fulfilling relationships, promising careers, and a life full of wonderful experiences. Imagine being able to be yourself around others, feel confident at parties, or deliver a presentation without the gnawing fear in your stomach. The Cure for Social Anxiety: The 7-Step Program to Eliminate Social Anxiety Without Drugs is here to transform your life by equipping you with actionable, effective tools to conquer your fears and live freely.

With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing.

Building Equitable Early Learning Programs: A Social-Justice Approach gives educators the facts, examples, strategies, and approaches needed to create and sustain programs and practices that can best serve our communities.

Recovery from active addiction is a lifelong journey that can take many paths. By aligning yoga philosophy and poses with each of the 12 steps, Kyczy Hawk presents a physical and spiritual guide that complements and augments any 12-step practice. Listeners will investigate how they think, feel, and believe by using a new vocabulary to process traditional recovery principles.

Becoming a Distinguished Physical Education Teacher: Creating a Rigorous and Standards-Based PE Program That is Safe and Welcoming For All Students is a complete guide to teaching Physical Education. Part One focuses on strategies to establish a safe and welcome learning environment for all students in physical education classes. In it you'll find strategies for promoting inclusivity and engagement in PE, how to establish class rules and communicate high expectations for student behavior and how to optimize space and resources to ensure a safe and orderly learning environment.

Si tienes dificultades para comunicarte y entender eficazmente los sentimientos, las necesidades y las respuestas de los demás... No estás solo. Sólo imagina... crear rápidamente una buena relación y confianza con aquellos de quienes dependes, volviéndote resiliente y optimista ante la adversidad, y teniendo la habilidad de leer rápida y precisamente a las personas.

Some people are talented at speaking before audiences, some at writing books, some at leading others, some at starting businesses. We're just talented in different ways. If you want to succeed, you must first identify the areas in which you are talented and then commit to developing those talents to the fullest. This audiobook will help you do just that with 12 proven strategies for uncommon achievement, including substantiated studies and unforgettable tips.

The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal employment opportunity laws to open workplaces at NASA and NASA contractors to African Americans while creating thousands of research and technology jobs in the Deep South to ameliorate poverty.

For over 3,000 years, practitioners of Chinese medicine have known that food is health-giving. Now, path-breaking nutritionist Linda Prout synthesizes the basic principles of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with the science of Western nutrition. With a clear focus to help listeners achieve balance, Prout introduces the concept of balance and describes the signs and symptoms of various patterns of imbalance from a TCM perspective.

Como mujer, sexóloga y psicóloga decidí empezar este proyecto debido a lo poco que se habla de nosotras en este campo ¿Qué pasa? ¿Qué nosotras no podemos ser Alfa? Pues déjame decirte que somos muchas, las ves en televisión, las ves en el supermercado, en el gym… ¿Y tú no puedes? Una mujer Alfa sabe seducir y cautivar, al tiempo que sabe el valor de su vida por sí sola, sin necesitar a nadie.

Meticulously formatted, this is a highly listenable edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times called him "one of the unsung heroes of modern times." Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most people have never even heard of. A former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid, he founded BRAC, originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, in 1972, aiming to help a few thousand war refugees. A half century later, BRAC is by many measures the largest nongovernmental organization in the world-and by many accounts, the most effective anti-poverty program ever.

Famous Quotes About Life, Love, & Success from Albert Einstein is a treasure trove of insightful ideas from one of the greatest brains in history, whether you're a scientific fanatic, a lover of philosophy, or simply searching for some timeless wisdom to guide your journey through life. Prepare to be inspired, informed, and provoked as you explore life, love, and success through the lens of a genius as you enter Einstein's world.