What's the difference between outreach and outstretch?

Outreach


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reach beyond.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
  • (2) After they were shuttered, they were supposed to be replaced by community outreach programs.
  • (3) Allen Mathies, president and chief executive officer at Huntington Memorial Hospital, cited a paradoxical side effect stemming from the success of his hospital's geriatric outreach programs.
  • (4) Local church groups run family outreach programs and free literacy courses for refugees.
  • (5) Approaches to the problem of access include vaccination whenever children come into contact with a health facility for any reason, channeling by members of the community, involvement of traditional healers and birth attendants, outreach services, mass campaigns, pulse technics, and financial incentives.
  • (6) It is suggested that the time-limited nature of therapy, the delineation of stort term, realistically attainable goals, and the vigorous outreach techniques by the therapists may have contributed to the unexpectedly high therapy attendance.
  • (7) This model, the Outreach Health Care Unit, is run by nurse practitioners in collaboration with family physicians and is centered at the site of social service activities for homeless families and single men in Yonkers, N.Y.
  • (8) Outreach efforts are needed to increase black Americans' awareness of depression and of the availability of treatment.
  • (9) This finding provides strong evidence that a comprehensive family-oriented outreach program for youngsters with chronic physical disorders can have long-term mental health benefits.
  • (10) Health and mental health centers employing both professional and nonprofessional counselors need to determine the value of adding outreach components to their services, and agencies which already have outreach programs may need to determine their relevance and effectiveness.
  • (11) Read more While many people think the painting was destroyed – either on purpose or by accident – Lynda Albertson, chief executive of the Rome-based Association for Research into Crimes against Art , a research and outreach organisation that promotes the study of art crime, said she is doubtful that is the case.
  • (12) The intensity and duration of the interventions, the extensive outreach efforts to the family and the dedication and commitment of the staff are not easily replicated but invaluable in helping providers and researchers understand to what extent the impact of severe deprivations and risk can be mediated and potential damage to the newborn prevented.
  • (13) While the type of intervention offered follows from the mission of the outreach program, all outreach teams must be able to address the totality of needs of people who are fragile and at risk for psychiatric and medical decompensation.
  • (14) Informal support groups of breast feeding mothers formed unexpectedly as a result of the educational and outreach activities.
  • (15) Jelacic's plans are to impact the tribunal's work in a country more torn than at any time during the war: "They involve entrenching the current outreach offices and moving the operation and the defence lines from The Hague to the Balkans: not just to Sarajevo, Zagreb, Belgrade and Pristina - but to the municipalities, the villages themselves.
  • (16) Subsequent adaptations have extended from the base of the CDT with outreach strategies and harm-minimization techniques.
  • (17) The home environments of 58 children with early histories of nonorganic failure-to-thrive (NOFTT) who received time-limited outreach intervention after hospitalization were assessed from 12 to 36 months of age.
  • (18) Girls are able to stay in school for a longer which opens up a world of opportunity.” Washiaka, whose organisation’s primary outreach tool is deploying trained peer educators such as Akoth, said there is a risk of returning to the situation of the 80s and 90s, when the implementation of the global gag rule by successive Republican administrations caused the closure of numerous clinics in many underserved communities in Kenya .
  • (19) The outreach program described here provides health care screening in an inner-city clinic to children and adolescents who attend any organized program in the community.
  • (20) Not only is Trump appearing yet again on NBC, he is hosting Saturday Night Live, the comedy institution that has a poorer record with US Latino outreach than the Republican party .

Outstretch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stretch out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her arm is outstretched in a strong, certain Nazi salute.
  • (2) On the back was a photograph of Tony Blair, his hands outstretched in the vicarish pose that he habitually uses to convey passionate belief.
  • (3) Monteggia fractures can occur during a fall on an outstretched arm, for example in motor or bicycle sport injuries, but also when falling from gymnastic equipment.
  • (4) Depoitre should have had a second just after the half-hour mark when a stray back pass from Luis Neto fell perfectly for the centre forward to run on to but as he bore down on the goalkeeper an outstretched leg from Yuri Lodygin rescued Zenit.
  • (5) Fracture of the carpal scaphoid usually results from a fall on an outstretched dorsiflexed wrist.
  • (6) The injury is produced by striking of the outstretched index against a resistant object, usually in a fall on the hand.
  • (7) It appears that nobody thought to give officers from either agency any advice about the Geneva Conventions, and nor were they warned that in 1972 the British government had banned five techniques of mistreatment that had been employed by the British army in Northern Ireland - hooding, being forced to stand in a stressful position with arms outstretched against a wall, being subjected to loud noise, sleep deprivation, food and drink deprivation.
  • (8) Carodoz clipoped the ball into the box and a Benfica player headed it on to bizarrely outstretched arm of Azpilicueta.
  • (9) When he examined the body, a black yarmulke was present near the outstretched hand of the burglar.
  • (10) A brief downward, stepwise displacement applied to the outstretched finger gives rise to a train of approximately sinusoidal movements of it, lasting often more than 1 sec.
  • (11) One he blocked from David Silva with his shoulder, another from Sergio Agüero with his outstretched right hand.
  • (12) The radii of the same forearms were then broken in a failure test to simulate a fall on the outstretched arm.
  • (13) Their energy rattled Everton, who felt that Leon Osman, replacing Ross Barkley at half-time, should have had a penalty when he tumbled over Dejan Lovren's outstretched leg.
  • (14) The thaw in relations with Cuba comes as a vindication of his initial policy of the outstretched hand towards hostile regimes or rogue states.
  • (15) If you want to do a pheasant with wings outstretched, that's how the plastic part comes.
  • (16) Instantly, the photograph of Sediqullah with his arms outstretched, his eyes defiant yet somehow innocent, jumps out at me.
  • (17) The Manchester City goalkeeper apologised to his team-mates at half-time after Gareth Bale’s swerving 35-yard free-kick found the bottom corner via his outstretched left hand.
  • (18) Jubilee 2000, whose task is the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the world's poorest countries by the year 2000, has proved to be one of the biggest global campaigns ever; it is compared to the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s and its reach has far outstretched campaigns for nuclear disarmament.
  • (19) Mechanism of injury was a twisting of the arm into forced abduction and external rotation, a fall on the outstretched arm, or a direct blow to the shoulder.
  • (20) He said it was up to people to choose whether to act as good neighbours or let their children "play with kids who attend a different church", before making one last plea: "And whether you reach your own outstretched hand across dividing lines, across peace walls, to build trust in a spirit of respect – that's up to you."

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