Sentences with phrase «youth advocate program»

Program & Services: Foster Care National Youth Advocate Program (NYAP) Describes the difference between family foster care and treatment foster care.

OTHER EXPERIENCES (1992 - 1996) Youth Advocate Program, Allentown PA Caseworker, Independent Living 1/1994 — 2/1996 Youth Sports, Boys and Girls Club of America, Allentown PA Director 9/1992 — 1/1994

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

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Budding Perth youth mental health advocate Ashlee Harrison has been accepted into a national program aimed at supporting, training and nurturing young social entrepreneurs.

JUNIOR GOLF LESSONS (AGE 17 AND UNDER) Greenhorn Creek is a strong advocate for youth golf, in addition to our Academy programs, Greenhorn Creek is the home course for Bret Harte High School and a host course for, youth, high school and College level tournaments.

, in which they advocate for the removal of youth football programs from public schools.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

The Academy is one of many programs provided by the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS), America's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children.

The organization supports a network of youth mentoring programs run by and for those with learning differences, and organizes advocates to support the full inclusion of people with learning disabilities and ADHD in all aspects of society.

The group would monitor the extent and complications of opioid addiction; spread awareness of symptoms and aftereffects through seminars and workshops; monitor and assess the state of and improvements in treatment modalities; interface with manufacturers, retailers, and physicians offering products to treat pain; pressure the medical community to reduce availability of addictive analgesics and advocate for nonaddictive substitutes, and maintain an interface between treatment programs and similar programs targeted at youth, health care, aging, and housing.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

The burgeoning educational theatre program for Bronx youth received a financial boost this fall — in the form of a $ 30,000 state grant secured by Senator Klein, who has long been a staunch advocate of the arts and arts programming for local families.

The Commission is an independent agency of the Commonwealth that recommends and advocates to all branches of state government effective policies, programs, and resources for GLBT youth to thrive.

First, we offer three curricular strands for our Ed.M program: a Counseling Strand to prepare you for a career in school counseling; a Prevention Practice strand that prepares you to work in or out of schools as a teacher, youth development advocate; and a Prevention Researcher strand that prepares you develop research skills to be used in a variety of settings.

In the AIE Program, you will join a diverse cohort of visual artists, musicians, museum educators, nonprofit arts advocates, actors, teachers, and writers who believe that the arts not only have intrinsic societal value, but also multiple roles in youth education and healthy development.

«District and school officials, community advocates, parents and youth worked together to build a roadmap for bullying prevention in the District, and this program marks our commitment to that roadmap's implementation.»

Both President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas have advocated a national program of youth apprenticeships and greater investments in worker training and retraining.

«We hear from our teachers and principals, our partners in the schools, there are more kids who could desperately use a youth advocate so at the time we're having to look at whether we can go, instead we're having to cut back and we know the number of students who could benefit from the program is growing,» says Malgieri.

In July, 14 youth service professionals graduated from the D.C. Youth Workforce Leaders Academy (YWLA), a 10 - month professional development program co-led by IEL and the DC Alliance of Youth Advocyouth service professionals graduated from the D.C. Youth Workforce Leaders Academy (YWLA), a 10 - month professional development program co-led by IEL and the DC Alliance of Youth AdvocYouth Workforce Leaders Academy (YWLA), a 10 - month professional development program co-led by IEL and the DC Alliance of Youth AdvocYouth Advocates.

(Utah) Providing breakfast for students with long bus rides, offering quick grab - and - go meals, or even serving food after the bell rings can effectively increase participation in school breakfast programs — something that can boost outcomes for low - income youth, advocates say.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leaYouth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have leayouth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

Collective for Youth's mission is to advocate for, facilitate resources, and provide quality training for out of school time program providers.

The Challenge aims to educate and inspire professionals, youth, and families to advocate for out - of - school time programs.

for a decade, starting as youth advocate, then program coordinator and now Director of Community Schools.

The Wisconsin Humane Society Green Bay Campus offers after - school programs for youth to get involved with the animals at the shelter and become advocates for their furry friends.

Our goal is to prepare the next generation of animal advocates through a variety of offerings for school - aged youth, including: summer camps for kids ages 6 to 13, clubs for teens and pre-teens, Boy and Girl Scout programs, and birthday parties.

World Nomads» scholarships program has been recognised by a leading advocate of youth travel, the British Educational Travel Association.

Current I - YEL interns will host alums and their families for a one - day, one - night camping trip, bringing together passionate park advocates from the 13 years of this inspirational and ever - evolving youth program.

Saldaña has also worked at the Streetwork Project LES, a needle exchange program serving homeless and street - based youth, and the Harm Reduction Coalition, a national organization founded by needle exchange providers, advocates and drug users.

Amid all this, we need heroes — whether they are the neighbor who organizes a great youth volleyball program or are voting rights advocates fighting for free electionsor medical researchers discovering disease cures or entrepreneurs delivering innovative means to accelerate clean energy penetration to address energy poverty — and we need to recognize them.

The programs receiving funding include: domestic violence shelters; human trafficking outreach centers; aged - out foster youth initiatives; sexual, elder, and child abuse programs; legal aid initiatives; and court appointed special advocate programs.

If a child needs help with services or programs that the government provides, they can contact the Child and Youth Advocate's Office of Newfoundland and Labrador.

• Built and advocated the Assembly of Prayer Baptist Church, starting this vibrant and uplifting church and ministered and built lasting relationships with the congregation and fostered the youth programs.

To work as a youth advocate with an educational institution or non-profit organization which gives me a chance to coordinate youth involvement in various community programs and make the youngsters of our society aware of the different issues affecting them

Strongly advocate the store's donation program Sports Matter, which provides funding to schools that can no longer afford sports programs for their youth.

• Assisted in creating and implementing youth programs to meet the individual requirements of each participant • Engaged participants in conversation to determine what their specific needs are and provided feedback to youth worker • Provided support in determining the need for intervention in issues such as drug and alcohol abuse • Assisted participants in determining the type of services and resources they needed, and arranged for them to be made available • Acted as participants» advocate in front of social services and government departments

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Developed youth leadership programming; cultivated partnerships with regional non-profits, businesses, and other governmental agencies; planned large and small - scale special events; wrote departmental grants and supervised mini-grant process for NC Youth Advisory Council; prepared and managed budgets; recruited and supervised volunteers; served as youth advocate to local and state agencies, boards, and schools; conducted meetings; prepared reports, newsletters, correspondence, and other materyouth leadership programming; cultivated partnerships with regional non-profits, businesses, and other governmental agencies; planned large and small - scale special events; wrote departmental grants and supervised mini-grant process for NC Youth Advisory Council; prepared and managed budgets; recruited and supervised volunteers; served as youth advocate to local and state agencies, boards, and schools; conducted meetings; prepared reports, newsletters, correspondence, and other materYouth Advisory Council; prepared and managed budgets; recruited and supervised volunteers; served as youth advocate to local and state agencies, boards, and schools; conducted meetings; prepared reports, newsletters, correspondence, and other materyouth advocate to local and state agencies, boards, and schools; conducted meetings; prepared reports, newsletters, correspondence, and other materials.

Direct Childcare Worker — Marlene B. Vinson Home of New Beginnings, Baltimore, MD; Behavior Counselor and Teacher's Assistant — Hattie Sam's Learning Ctr., Baltimore, MD; Youth Advocate — Trinity Advocacy Program, Inc., Baltimore, MD; Teacher's Assistant — Board of Child Care, Strawbridge School, Baltimore, MD; Youth Counselor — The Place for Children, Baltimore, MD; Overnight Residential Counselor — Community Services of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Counselor II — X. Gallagher, Timonium, MD; Special Educational Teacher's Assistant — Baltimore City Public Schools System, Northern High School and William, & Bear, Baltimore, MD

An administrative or mangerial position which would benefit from my experience as an advocate for youth and families, developing new programs, colaborating with community resources to better meet the needs of the community, facilitating community action

Leveraging grassroots and corporate support, collaborations with national youth - serving organizations and innovative research, MENTOR advocates for public investments in quality mentoring programs and policies to ensure safety and effectiveness.

Proven effective in 3 studies, RTR has been chosen as an effective evidence - based program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Office of Adolescent Health and other national organizations recognized as authorities on teen pregnancy prevention, including Emerging Answers 2007 and What Works 2010: Curriculum - Based Programs That Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; Programs That Work, 2010, Promising Practices Network; and Science and Success, Second Edition: Sex Education and Other Programs that Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections, Advocates for Youth.

We conducted more than 1,700 education and training programs, reaching more than 42,000 youth and adults, and mobilized 49,000 advocates to protect reproductive health care rights.

Through Planned Parenthood's youth organizing program, students across the country organize events on campus to raise public awareness about reproductive health and rights, educate young people about sexual health, and mobilize advocates for reproductive freedom in all communities.

# 100YearsStrong Centennial Celebration, Planned Parenthood Advocates Rally and March at the St. Louis Presidential Debate, Conference Recap: Youth Power Summit and SHIFT, Update on the Women's Health Services Program

This study presents findings from a pilot randomized controlled trial, testing a 12 - week intervention to train parents of youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to advocate for adult disability services — the Volunteer Advocacy Program - Transition (VAP - T).

CCBD, whose members include educators, parents, mental health personnel, and a variety of other professionals, actively pursues quality educational services and program alternatives for persons with behavioral disorders, advocates for the needs of such children and youth, emphasizes research and professional growth as vehicles for better understanding behavioral disorders, and provides professional support for persons who are involved with and serve children and youth with behavioral disorders..

Program / Service Keywords: child abuse, domestic violence, therapy, trauma, abuse, mental health, social services, social justice, public health, case management, Behavioral Health, child neglect, childhood trauma, Children and Youth, childhood advocates, counseling, support groups