Court Appointed Special Advocates ( CASA ), adopted as the international philanthropy in 1989, are community volunteers who serve as the voice for abused and neglected children in court, their purpose is to ensure all legal actions made are in the child's best interest.

A comprehensive range of materials has been built up over the last three hundred years, and a modern library management system utilising the latest technology, ensure that the Advocates Library is able to meet the increasingly complex needs of members of the Faculty of Advocates.

In recent years, programs derived from yoga, a Hindu religious practice, have been introduced into public schools in the U. S. Advocates for the programs say they help children to relax and concentrate, but critics counter that the programs violate the separation of church and state.

Advocates differ on which approach better promotes academic achievement for immigrant children.

Court Appointed Special Advocates ( CASA ) is a national association in the United States that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children in order to provide children with a safe and healthy environment in permanent homes.

For example, in North Carolina, trained Guardian ad Litem volunteers are paired with Attorney Advocates to advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children.

* F. Jerome Doyle ( Dem ), 64, of Los Gatos, is chief executive officer of EMQ ( a provider of mental health services for children and youth ), a board member and past president of the California Council of Community Mental Health Agencies, and a board member of California Mental Health Advocates for Children.

The Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, or AACF, is a non-profit advocacy organization which encourages public policy in Arkansas that will benefit children and their families.

She is chairwoman of the board of LA's BEST Friends, an after school education, enrichment and recreation program ; a member of the board of directors for the Long Beach Boys and Girls Club ; an advisory board member of Court Appointed Special Advocates ( CASA ), supporting children in foster care ; an advisory board member of EmpowerTech, serving people with disabilities ; and an honorary advisory board member of Optimist Youth Home, providing services for troubled youth.

Advocates believe God controls via Providence how many children are conceived and born, pointing to Bible verses that describe God acting to " open and close the womb ".

His target was Scottish political conservatism, in the form of the Faculty of Advocates, and he brought on young Whig advocates imbued with a due reverence for the law.

Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods ( In a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money.

Advocates of local currency, such as Jane Jacobs, argue that this enables an economically cool, yet depressed region to pull itself up by giving the people living there a medium of exchange they can use to exchange services and locally-produced goods.

Advocates of same-sex marriage cite a range of benefits that are denied to people who cannot marry, including immigration, health care, inheritance and property rights, and other family obligations and protections, as reasons why marriage should be extended to same-sex couples.

Advocates of this theory promote nationalism as an ideal of populist politics and as an embodiment of the democratic legitimacy that resides in the will of the people.

Advocates of this design approach claim that ordinary people of ordinary intelligence can use it to successfully solve very large, complex design problems.

In 1987, Marshall Fritz, founder of the Advocates for Self-Government, tweaked the chart and added ten questions – which he called the World ’ s Smallest Political Quiz – which enabled people to plot themselves on the chart and discover where they fit on the political map.

Advocates of this technique point out that it has the virtue of simplicity: no specialized statistical software is required, and the results are readily understood by business people.

Advocates claim that over 100 million people in 1, 500 cities celebrate International Car-Free Day, though on days and in ways of their choice.

Advocates for the rights of people with developmental disabilities focus their efforts on gaining acceptance in the workforce and in everyday activities and events from which they might have been excluded in the past.

Advocates for the rights of people with mental illnesses focus mainly on self-determination, and an individual ’ s ability to live independently.

Advocates of disability rights emphasise difference in physical or psychological functioning, rather than inferiority — for example, some people with autism argue for acceptance of neurodiversity, much as opponents of racism argue for acceptance of ethnic diversity.

Advocates argue that homosexuality is not a " choice " but a personal identity, a claim supported by the American Psychology Association ( APA ), and that all working people have a right to be judged by the quality of their work performance and not by completely unrelated factors.

Advocates of culture-historical archaeology use this notion to argue that sets of material culture can be used to trace ancient groups of people that were either self-identifying societies or ethnic groups.

Advocates of technological progress however argue that even if admittedly " progress may have its price ", without technical innovation there would be no progress at all ; the same people who criticize technology also depend on it for their everyday existence.

Advocates of using ' ageism ' also believe it makes common cause with older people fighting against their own form of age discrimination.

Diabetes Advocates around the country work to increase funding to prevent, treat and cure diabetes ; to improve access to health care ; and to eliminate discrimination against people with diabetes at school, work or elsewhere in their lives.

According to the Heritage Conservation Advocates, is " the home of the original native people of Cagayan de Oro City ".

* 1825 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.

Advocates of increased use of DDT in IRS claim that alternative insecticides are more expensive, more toxic, or not as effective.

Advocates of free-market socialism, such as Jaroslav Vanek, argue that genuine free markets are not possible under conditions of private ownership over productive property because the class differences and inequalities in income and power that ensue from this arrangement enable interests of the dominant class to skew the market to their favor, either in the form of monopoly and market power, or by utilizing their wealth and resources to pass government regulations and policies that benefit their specific business interests.

Advocates address the second doubt by arguing that bacteria are ( of necessity ) evolved to evolve, while nanorobot mutation could be actively prevented by common error-correcting techniques.

Advocates of laissez-faire capitalism generally argue that permanent natural monopolies are merely theoretical.

Advocates are often normal users who devote their spare time to advocacy of their operating system of choice ; many have a deep and abiding interest in the use, design and construction of operating systems and an emotional investment in their favourite operating system.

Advocates of Condorcet methods argue that a candidate can claim to have majority support only if they are the " Condorcet winner " – that is, the candidate who would beat every other candidate in a series of one-on-one elections.

Advocates of intensive farming say that their highly efficient systems save land and food resources due to increased productivity, stating that the animals are looked after in state-of-the-art environmentally controlled facilities.

" Advocates of these " cultural segments " are often zealous and overstated in their attempts to redefine generational boundaries, often claiming wide adoption and sometimes advancing self-promotional agendas.

According to International Advocates for Justice, Falun Gong has filed the largest number of human rights lawsuits in the 21st century and the charges are among the most severe international crimes defined by international criminal laws.

Advocates of this theology postulate that the reason so many " gentiles " are converting to Messianic Judaism is that the vast majority of them are truly Israelites.

There are no permanent Advocates General attached to the General Court ( unlike the European Court of Justice which has 8 Advocates General ).

Advocates of laissez-faire capitalism advocate that the only type of monopoly that should be broken up is what they call a coercive monopoly, that is the persistent, exclusive control of a vitally needed resource, good, or service such that the community is at the mercy of the controller, and where there are no suppliers of the same or substitute goods to which the consumer can turn.

Three out of the eight original manuscripts are currently preserved by the British Library, two are in the possession of the Advocates ' Library in Edinburgh ; one, within the University of St Andrews Library ; another, within the confines of Wemyss Castle and the eighth, privately owned by Mister John Ferguson of Duns, Berwickshire.

Advocates of highway development and suburban participation in urban government theorize that cities which protect themselves from the suburbs, forcing them to become self-sufficient small towns, cutting off the freeways, forcing commuters into subways, etc., are committing suicide by forcing business out into the suburbs.

Muslims are divided into two groups regarding the issue of sama and the use of music in general: 1 ) Advocates, which are most Sufis and other mystics, and 2 ) Opponents.

Today, law degrees in India are granted and conferred in terms of the Advocates Act, 1961, which is a law passed by the Parliament both on the aspect of legal education and also regulation of conduct of legal profession.

Advocates of limited government, in the form laissez faire ( little or no government role in the economy ) follow from the 19th century philosophical tradition classical liberalism, and are particularly associated with the mainstream economic schools of classical economics ( through the 1870s ) and neoclassical economics ( from the 1870s onwards ), and with the heterodox Austrian school.

Advocates of EVs are concerned that the focus of the media and the reaction of U. S. Representative Jim Jordan are unwarranted.