Sentences with phrase «african american children»

Child maltreatment, impulsivity, and antisocial behavior in African American children: Moderation effects from a cumulative dopaminergic gene index.

Longitudinal pathways to competence and psychological adjustment among African American children living in rural single - parent households

The early identification of risk for grade retention among African American children at risk for school difficulty

[jounal] Brody, G. H. / 2002 / Longitudinal pathways to competence and psychological adjustment among african american children living in rural single - parent households / Child Development 73 (5): 1505 ~ 1516

The purpose of this review is to examine empirical studies that focus on the association between family - level factors (e.g., parenting practices, family functioning) and African American children's behavioral health.

Report to the Legislature on the Study of Outcomes for African American Children in Minnesota's Child Protection System (PDF - 549 KB) Minnesota Department of Human Services / Children's Services Administration (2002) Study of why African - American children in Minnesota are disproportionately represented in out - of - home care.

At the same time that many states and communities across the country are committing to expanding high - quality early learning opportunities, alarming statistics suggest that early childhood learning environments are a point of entry to the school - to - prison pipeline, particularly for African American children.

Race Equity Review: Findings from a Qualitative Analysis of Racial Disproportionality and Disparity for African American Children and Families in Michigan's Child Welfare System (PDF - 1,095 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2009) Presents research and findings of institutional features that contribute to racial disproportionality and disparity, and recommendations for change.

This website is mainly intended for any person who is involved in raising African American children, and for any person whose work involves helping African American Families.

This article reports the results of two related studies that investigated the effects of a 10 - week reading intervention program in which culturally relevant texts were used for instruction on urban African American children's reading achievement.

The first trial had a sample of over 100 African American children living in poverty in the mid-1960s; it reported sizable, sustained effects on participants» life outcomes.

According to the tenets of Afrocentric teaching — which harnesses the skills African American children bring to schools to engage them in the classroom experience (Ford & Kea 2009)-- combining music with creative movement, mime, and dance is a form of expression for many African American children and engages them in shared affective experiences that are useful for empathy development (Boykin 1994; Laird 2015).

Pubertal maturation and African American children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms

Neighborhood × Serotonin Transporter Linked Polymorphic Region (5 - HTTLPR) interactions for substance use from ages 10 to 24 years using a harmonized data set of African American children.

The soulful parent: Raising healthy, happy and successful African American children.

The national survey indicated that expulsion rates were higher for older children, boys, and African American children and were higher within private and faith - based settings (Gilliam, 2005).

«Wide gaps continue to exist between Latino and African American children and white children, and these gaps will hold Rhode Island back in terms of our educational and workforce goals and future prosperity.»

Latino and African American children are likely to be hit the hardest by cuts to Head Start.

But recent data from 2011 show that more than half of African American children and 63 percent of Hispanic children ages 3 to 4 do not attend preschool.

While it is not possible to compare the impact of these programs across racial groupings, the impact of these early learning programs on the low - income African American children who participated was pronounced and long term.

These three longitudinal studies define the significant impact that intensive preschool interventions can have on very low - income African American children.

A report by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights showed that African American children represented 18 percent of public preschool enrollment, but 48 percent of preschoolers receiving multiple out - of - school suspensions.

Finding Families for African American Children: The Role of Race & Law in Adoption From Foster Care Smith, McRoy, Freundlich, & Kroll (2008) The Donaldson Adoption Institute Explores issues relating to transracial adoption and calls for major changes to better serve the needs of children of color and to improve their prospects of moving to permanent, loving homes.

For example, African American parents tend to use more physical punishment than European American parents (Deater - Deckard, Dodge, Bates, & Pettit, 1996), and African American children who live in low - income neighborhoods tend to be more aggressive than European American children (Kupersmidt, Griesler, DeRosier, Patterson, & Davis, 1995).

The increasing colorization of America's child welfare system: The overrepresentation of African American children.

A social emotional curriculum, the Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS), was implemented in a classwide and curricular - integrated format with initial effects evaluated for 3 third - grade African American children identified as at risk for special education referral.

See Wulczyn, F. Closing the gap: Are changing exit patterns reducing the time African American children spend in foster care relative to Caucasian children?

Children whose race / ethnicity was other than white or African American were less likely to have had no adverse exposures; African American children were less likely than other children to have had at least 3 adverse exposures (χ28 = 45.62, P <.05).

CICC's Effective Black Parenting Program (EBPP) is the country's first culturally - adapted parenting skill - building program for parents of African American children.

In 1965, about 10 percent of all U.S. children and 25 percent of African American children lived with a single parent; 2 in 2011, these figures were around 28 percent and 51 percent respectively.

African American children and children with family income < $ 20000 were more likely than their non-African American and higher income counterparts to experience at least 1 ACE (Supplemental Table 6).

Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.

In contrast, a study of 74 white children and 47 African American children revealed no longitudinal impact of pressure to eat, restriction or monitoring on changes in total fat mass over 2.7 years [21].

During the recovery of the Great Recession, income inequality in the United States accelerated, with 91 % of the gains going to the top 1 % of families.19 Left out of the recovery were African American families who, during the downturn, lost an average of 35 % of their accumulated wealth.20 African American unemployment increased, home ownership decreased, and child poverty deepened to approximately 46 % of children younger than 6 years.21 Because social mobility is lowest for people in the lowest income quartile, half of African American children who are poor as young children will remain poor as adults, approximately twice as many as white adults similarly exposed to poverty as children.22

In the general population, four times as many African American children as Caucasian children become wards of the state; the former also spend a longer time in the child welfare system [Everett et al. 1991; Edelman 1987].

It would be useful if future replications with younger rural African American children could examine the interplay of environmental challenges and parenting occurring at multiple stages of development to better characterize key developmental stages at which protective parenting exerts its greatest effects.

Protection and vulnerability processes relevant for early onset of substance use: a test among African American children.

The influence of neighborhood disadvantage, collective socialization, and parenting on African American children's affiliation with deviant peers.

Asa Hilliard, one of the pioneering activist leaders concerned about African American children thriving in the educational system, always emphasized the centrality of nurturing and high expectations in the teacher — child relationship.

TEACHING / PRESENTATION HISTORY Graduate Assistant — Texas Woman's University 2010 to Present Theories of the Family, Family Public Policy, Family Sexuality, Family Change and Diversity Guest Lecturer — Mountainview College Spring 2010 Guest Lecturer, Black Family Course Instructor — Axia College (Online) Fall / Winter 2007 Psychology Instructor — North Central Texas College Fall 2007 Graduate / Research Assistant — Texas Southern University Spring 2005 Presentations: 2010 Ohio Early Care and Education Conference, Columbus, OH April 2010 Pretend Play & African American Families: Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) Educational First Steps Annual Conference, Dallas, TX Feb. 2010 Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) National Black Child Development Institute, Atlanta, GA April 2009 Strengthening Black Families Through Play (workshop) Collin College Educators Symposium, Plano, TX April 2009 Share My World: Play and African American Children (workshop) Texas Woman's University Student Research Symposium, Denton, TX April 2009 The Impact of Adolescence on African American Parent - Daughter Relations (poster presentation) Collegium for African American Research, Bremen, Germany (paper presentation) March 2009 The 20th Century Social Scientist and the African in America: Implications for 21st Century Research Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX (workshop) April 2009 Beyond, Me, Myself, and I: Impact of Early Adolescence on Females» Interpersonal Relationships Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX Jan. 2008 Maintaining Healthy Relationships and Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships (workshop) The Health Group, Houston, TX Feb. 2005 Recognizing Depression in Yourself and Others (workshop)

Placing her children's education above all else, Cora Biggers sent John and his brother Joe to Lincoln Academy, a private boarding school for African American children in Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

This collection of 12 poems celebrating and affirming both the variations in skin color and individuality of African American children is illustrated with richly colored paintings that complement the imagery of the free verse.

- Rudine Sims Bishop, from, «Reflections on the development of African American Children's Literature,» Journal of Children's Literature, Vol.

Hispanic and African American children tended to have lower restraint use.

Consider asthma, for example: Largely because of poorly maintained housing and environmental pollution, urban African American children have asthma at four times the rate of white middle - class children.

Ironically, it was Eric Holder seeking to block the exit of predominantly poor, African American children from chronically failing schools in their search of a quality education.

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.

In a city where 50 % of African American children under the age of 19 live in poverty [1] and 35 % of African American residents live below the poverty line [2], college is still too often just a luxury for some students, not an option for all.

According to an estimate by the National Home Education Research Institute, the number of African American children who are home - schooled grew by about 10 percent between 2012 and 2016.

Studies have found that only 30 % of African American children enter kindergarten with basic language skills (i.e. recognizing letters of the alphabet).