Urban youth use Twitter to transform learning and engagement.
Not exact matches
In addition to creating new local jobs, Starbucks will work with nonprofit partners like the
Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis to provide a robust, multi-week job skills training program for local
youth,
using a specially - designed classroom space within the store.
The
Urban Youth Collaborative called the bill «an unprecedented step to subsidize private education
using the public's money,» noting in its release that according to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, «New York City schools are owed $ 2.3 billion» under court judgements against the city and state for not providing a minimum adequate education in the public schools.
Her schedule can read like a map of multiculturalism in New York: opening a 24 - hour center for L.G.B.T.Q.
youth in Queens, touring an
urban farm in East Harlem, a Hispanic Heritage event at Gracie Mansion one night and a transgender theater performance another, opening a substance
use clinic at the Gay Men's Health Crisis headquarters in Manhattan, attending a reading of writer James Baldwin at a center for black culture — all since late September.
He has more than 10 years of experience as a statistician and investigator on projects spanning topics including health disparities,
urban health, HIV, tobacco, community interventions, substance
use / abuse, and normative and atypical developmental trajectories of immigrant and minority
youth.
With many groundbreaking publications to his credit, he has analyzed the cultures, languages, and texts of
urban youth,
using quantitative, critical literary, ethnographic, and sociolinguistic research methods to answer complex questions at the center of equity and social justice in education.
Some of the more privileged members of Belizean society perceived that increases in juvenile delinquency, crime, and drug
use among Belizean
urban youth were directly attributable to breakdowns in family structure.
Born in South Africa in 1976, Berlin - based Robin Rhode
uses the barest of means to comment on
urban poverty, the politics of leisure and the commodification of
youth cultures.
Embracing a variety of media - principally photography, but also drawing, animation, performance and sculpture - the work of Robin Rhode
uses simple, ephemeral devices to comment on
urban youth culture, colonialism and socio - economic issues in a simple, witty and subtly effective way.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Many
urban youth experiencesignificant and unremitting negative stressors, including those associated with community violence, multigenerational poverty, failing educational systems, substance
use, limited avenues for success, health risks, and trauma.
Due to effects of multigenerational poverty, limited educational and economic opportunities, high levels of drug
use and trade, and pervasive community violence,
urban youth in Baltimore and many US cities are at increased risk for exposure to a variety of stresses, including early life stress, recurrent and chronic stress, and exposure to significant and / or recurrent traumas.
Limitations of the study include the self - report nature of assessing the
youths» drug
use and family problems, as well as the questionable generalizability of the sample, which was low - income,
urban, and consisted primarily of males from ethnic minorities.
In addition to school and private practice, she has led groups focused on building attachment and social skills
using Theraplay ® techniques at The Kansas City
Urban Youth Center, a youth center in Kansas City's urban
Urban Youth Center, a youth center in Kansas City's urban
Youth Center, a
youth center in Kansas City's urban
youth center in Kansas City's
urban urban core.
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.
African American
youth in
urban centers often reside in poorly resourced communities and face structural disadvantage, which can result in higher rates of poor behavioral health factors such as mental health problems, juvenile justice system involvement, substance
use, risky sex and lower school engagement.
Psychosocial, alcohol / other drug
use, and delinquency differences between
urban Black and White male high risk
youth
Principles from ecological theory and knowledge derived from studies of risk and protection among children and
youths are
used to examine individual -, peer -, school -, and family - level factors associated with the likelihood of victimization among 150 low - income,
urban, Hispanic female eighth - grade students.