What's the difference between outreach and overstretch?

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 .

Overstretch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Damage due to overstretching is probably the main cause.
  • (2) It mostly happens to strong men whose biceps muscle are contracted and overstretched unexpectedly.
  • (3) The Syrian military, overstretched by the civil war, has not retaliated, and it was not clear whether the embattled Syrian leader would choose to take action this time.
  • (4) Successful electrotherapy depends upon an early beginning, the selective stimulation of the paralyzed muscles with exponential current at a sufficiently high intensity under isometric conditions and by avoiding overstretching of the muscles.
  • (5) After all, our capacities aren't infinite, and overstretching ourselves wouldn't help us or the EU as a whole.
  • (6) But there’s probably three or four children in each class [making about 60 in the school] who I think need some kind of support because of their mental health issues.” It is a familiar story as overstretched NHS mental health services for children struggle to meet demand in the face of well-documented cutbacks that have seen thresholds for being seen by Camhs go up, waiting lists lengthen, and children turned away.
  • (7) The recommendations laid out today represent hard-edged delegation of responsibilities away from an overstretched and remote Department for Education.
  • (8) So has Amazon overstretched itself or is this just the pattern of a hyperactive business, one that can’t sit still and wants to play with everything in reach?
  • (9) During pregnancy, due to overstretching of the abdominal muscles, the ability to perform a sit-up is significantly decreased.
  • (10) The damage to the arterial wall by dilatation increased discontinuously with increasing overstretching.
  • (11) "The prison population has reached a record high and prison and probation officers are being increasingly overstretched.
  • (12) Overstretching with microtraumata of the myelum may be a more important factor.
  • (13) This leads to constipation, overstretching of sphincters and resultant faecal soiling.
  • (14) "The world knows that there is a problem in South Sudan but they don't know that people are coming to Ethiopia … Our efforts are overstretched and still people are coming," he says.
  • (15) The official, who spoke anonymously but with official sanction, said Pakistan's military were overstretched.
  • (16) Mount Sinai is so overstretched they couldn’t give a toss either way.
  • (17) Even before the recession, it was overstretched and understaffed.
  • (18) Andrew Brigden, of City consultancy Fathom, said there was a one in three chance of a "double-dip" downturn in the world economy, and warned that with demand at home likely to be depressed as governments and overstretched households sorted out their finances, all the major economies would be pinning their hopes on exporting to foreign markets – but they could not all play that game at once.
  • (19) When random stretches larger than the upper region of the dynamic range were applied, the spindle discharged at the maximum impulse rate and displayed no depolarization block or "overstretch" phenomenon.
  • (20) "Arab spring became Arab winter" March 18, 2014 In the case of Ukraine our western partners have overstretched their limit, says Putin.

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