Sentences with phrase «american urban adolescent»

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Young dads: the effects of a parenting program on urban African - American adolescent fathers.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

The study abstract, «Hospitalizations for Firearm Injuries in Children and Adolescents in the US: Rural Versus Urban,» will be presented Monday, Sept. 18, at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.

Dr. Carothers has written a number of manuscripts for publication, including research on the effectiveness of mentoring interventions across multiple contexts, and she has presented research on stress and coping for urban children and adolescents at professional conferences including the Society for Research on Adolescence and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

The study also found that adolescents from urban, lower - income African - American families in which the mother and father were not living...

Eric Fischl, a painter, sculptor, and printmaker featured in Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, gained acclaim in the 1980s with large - scale paintings depicting middle - class American life with themes of adolescent sexuality and voyeurism.

The program originally developed in Elmira served primarily white, rural adolescent mothers (400 mothers, divided into four different treatment groups) for whom data are available through the child's fifteenth birthday.27 It was replicated in Memphis with an urban sample of 1,139 predominantly African American adolescent mothers and their children who have been followed through age nine28 and in Denver with an ethnically diverse sample of 735 low - income mothers and their children who have been followed through age four.29 Beginning in 1996, NFP programs began expanding to other states using a mix of private, local, and federal funds.

Therefore, the sample can not be regarded as statistically representative of urban or rural American Indian adolescents.

Measured body mass index, body weight perception, dissatisfaction and control practices in urban, low - income African American adolescents

This article notes the importance of measuring successful functioning in American Indian (AI) adolescents, describes some methods of measuring successful functioning, and shares the results of a preliminary study of successful functioning in urban — and reservation — based AI youth.

African - American female adolescents living in urban areas are at increased risk for adverse adjustment outcomes.

Ge and colleagues, for instance, found that early maturation is linked to internalizing symptoms among African American adolescents residing in rural and suburban neighborhoods (Ge et al. 2001, 2003, 2006) and have called for additional research on African American adolescents living in urban environments.

However, these studies were not conducted with adolescents in high - poverty urban settings, where early sexual initiation is more normative than in lower - poverty settings.20 In a high - risk sample of African American youths aged 9 to 15 years, Romer et al21 found that parental monitoring was related only to very early sexual initiation (aged ≤ 10 years) and not to subsequent initiation of sex or condom use.

In order to increase cultural competency, the scripts for both video clips were reviewed and tailored for appropriate language, communication style, and content by a pediatric health behavior researcher with expertise in developing interventions for urban, minority adolescents, specifically African American adolescents.

African American adolescents living in high - poverty urban settings are at increased risk for early sexual initiation and sexually transmitted diseases.

This investigation was undertaken to examine resiliency factors related to positive parenting among low - income, urban, adolescent African American mothers living in three - generational households.

African American female adolescents living in low - income urban areas are at increased risk for sexually transmitted diseases.

This study examined gender differences in cross-gender violence perpetration and victimization (ranging from mild, e.g., push, to severe, e.g., assault with a knife or gun) and attitudes toward dating conflict, among an urban sample of 601 early adolescents (78 % African - American).

Background African American female adolescents living in low - income urban areas are at increased risk for sexually transmitted diseases.

Objective To determine if high levels of perceived parental supervision and communication were associated with reduced gonorrhea (GC) and chlamydia (CT) incidence in low - income, African American, sexually experienced female adolescents, aged 14 to 19 years, attending urban health clinics.

A Developmental Explanatory Model of Maladaptive Aggressive Dispositions in Urban African American Adolescents.