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Alex Newell, well known for his appearances on The Glee Project and his role as Wade «Unique» Adams on Fox's Glee, launched Planned Parenthood's «Fighting for the Healthiest Generation» campaign with a breakfast and webcast viewing party in New York City for Planned Parenthood youth advocates from the New York metro area.

That is the message youth advocates from Our Voices Xposed (OVX) hope state lawmakers hear loud and clear on Feb 9 as part of a youth rally and march on the Vermont State Capitol.

Anti Tobacco Youth Advocates from Cortland High School with teachers Kat Rhinehart and Melissa Potter, in Albany.

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- Another report from the Child and Youth Advocate about absent child protection and inadequate supports for vulnerable families;

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

It is time that we recognize the harm caused by the mercy rule, and advocate for change by teaching athletes to learn from defeat rather than hide from it, to understand that losing is neither shameful nor embarrassing, to embrace competition of all levels, and to value the positive life lessons gained through all of youth sports.

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).

It details Engh's amazing rise from Depression - era poverty on the shores of Eastern Maryland to confront a series of life - changing events that ultimately led him to creating the National Alliance for Youth Sports, which has been the nation's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children for more than 30 years.

Join our Facebook community to connect with youth sports safety advocates from across the world and stay up to day with the newest trends in youth safety and making real changes in your community.

Notably, unlike Virginia's law, the policy expressly empowers game officials to remove athletes from play if they are suspected of having suffered a concussion (a power that I have been advocating for many years game officials be given, and a power conferred on game officials by laws at the state level in only Arizona, Iowa, and Ohio), and requires that coaches who disregard the safety and well being of a youth sports participant as it related to concussions be subject to indefinite suspension (only Pennsylvania and Connecticut have laws which penalize coaches for violating their statutes)

One way to do this is to advocate for the children and youth who have been emaciated from or «aged out» of (reached the age of 18 and are no longer able to receive assistance from their state of foster families) of foster care by:

On Wednesday morning, on the day before the Mayor was to unveil his budget, advocates that included representatives from Alianza Dominicana, Children's Aid Society, the Children Arts and Sciences Workshop, ACDP, Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI), Community League of the Heights (C.L.O.T.H.), the Police Athletic League (P.A.L.), and representatives from local New York City Councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares and Herman D. Farrell, among others, gathered in an early morning meeting to brain - storm about strategies to ward off the cuts.

Olusola Mathew Fafure (OMF), a youth empowerment advocate, writes from Lagos.

At 12:30 p.m., Families Together in New York State, a lead member of the Raise the Age NY campaign, holds its annual Legislative Awareness Day and Luncheon where over 400 family members, state leaders, youth and advocates from around the state will speak on issues impacting families of children with social, emotional and behavioral needs, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Albany.

CITY HALL — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to seize control of the state's troubled juvenile justice system was met with resounding support from youth advocates and City Council members at a council hearing Wednesday.

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Jawanza Williams, youth leader at VOCAL - NY, whose co-executive director, Jeremy Saunders, said advocates have gotten «no clear response» from the governor regarding funding of the Plan to End AIDS.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

As the number one advocate for youth, the 4,100 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country and on U.S. military installations worldwide work to ensure great futures are within reach of the nearly 4 million members by helping them stay on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and citizenship, and living a healthy lifestyle.

More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

She comes to OHR from Advocates for Justice and Education (AJE), where she worked on education policy issues for youth with special needs.

«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.

The department has been gathering feedback on the plan from the Commissioner's Advisory Councils and other stakeholders include Kentucky Youth Advocates, Baker said.

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.

California school districts, responding to pressure from parent groups, youth advocates and the state, are eschewing punitive discipline, such as suspensions and expulsions, and asking teachers to focus much more on the social and emotional needs of their students.

Other highlights of the conference included keynotes from NASA astronaut Captain Scott Kelly; author, commentator, and co-founder and former editor - in - chief of The Huffington Post news site, Arianna Huffington; and youth advocate, Rhodes Scholar, decorated U.S. Army officer, and acclaimed author Wes Moore.

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.

We expose opportunity and achievement gaps that separate students of color and low - income students from other youth, and we identify and advocate for the strategies that will forever close those gaps.

Alongside parent and student allies from organizations across Fresno, our youth and adult organizers successfully advocated for the voices of those most affected to be reflected in their districts LCAP.

ETW's mission is therefore to expose the opportunity and achievement gaps that separate students of color and low - income students from other youth, and identify and advocate for the strategies that will forever close those gaps.

All proceeds from the fundraising event will go toward providing a scholarship and financial support to an outstanding, low - income, college - bound youth who is a passionate advocate for the environment.

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.

At COP23 a delegation of frontline communities, indigenous communities, communities of color, youth, advocates, and policymakers, pushed for climate action on the city and state level despite the U.S withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and recent rollbacks on climate protections.

The delegation included members from frontline communities, Indigenous communities, communities of color, youth, advocates, and policymakers who are pushing for climate action on the city and state level despite the U.S withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and recent rollbacks on climate protections.

After a youth delegation from Bahamas Plastic Movement advocated for the ban, the country will ban plastic bags in the first quarter of 2018.

The platform, includes youth, Indigenous peoples, frontline communities, advocates, and policymakers who have come to Bonn with organizations from across the U.S..

In a show of force today, individuals from diverse organizations representing youth, advocates, Indigenous peoples & frontlines communities, policy makers and more announced their platform — «The U.S. People's Delegation» to counter the Trump Administration's fossil fuel agenda and to hold US states, cities, businesses, and the public accountable to commitments to climate action.

They'll be teaming up with Population Action International, Advocates for Youth, SustainUS, the Youth Coalition, and the government of Sri Lanka for an event featuring the voices of young people from around the world who have experienced the deep connections between sexual and reproductive health and rights and the environment.

It brings together experts such as social workers, lawyers, mental health workers, psychologists, family physicians, academics, and children and youth advocates in an interdisciplinary team to develop pilot projects that address family justice and mental health needs from a user perspective.

Children's Participation in Justice Processes: Finding the Best Ways Forward, Results from the Survey of Symposium Participants was prepared by Joanne Paetsch, Dr. Lorne Bertrand and John - Paul Boyd and is the first written output from the «Children's Participation in Justice Processes: Finding the Best Ways Forward» two - day symposium presented by the CRILF and the Alberta Office of the Child and Youth Advocate.

It brings together experts such as social workers, lawyers, mental health workers, psychologists, family physicians, academics, and children and youth advocates in an interdisciplinary environment to develop pilot projects that address family justice and mental health needs from a user perspective.

The symposium was organized by the Institute and the Alberta Office of the Child and Youth Advocate, and was attended by 179 professionals, including academics, judges, lawyers, mental health professionals and social workers, coming from every province and territory except New Brunswick.

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

This manual also advocates that issues relating to substance use and young people should not be viewed solely as a specialist area requiring input from experts, but rather should be viewed as being within the realm of good youth work.

Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) The Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) is a community based organisation that advocates for the needs of young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds.

Hempstead, NY — Forty teens from Hempstead and Roosevelt, including Planned Parenthood of Nassau County's (PPNC) Teen Advocate Project peer educators, recently joined hundreds of youth activists from around the state at the New York State Capitol in Albany at the annual Youth Leadership Conference hosted by Family Planning Advocates of New York Syouth activists from around the state at the New York State Capitol in Albany at the annual Youth Leadership Conference hosted by Family Planning Advocates of New York SYouth Leadership Conference hosted by Family Planning Advocates of New York State.

Improved Child Welfare Services and Case Practice Needed in Prince George's: Child Advocates Identify Need for Significant Reforms (PDF - 203 KB) Advocates for Children and Youth (2010) Discusses results from interviews of people who represent or advocate for significant numbers of abused and neglected children.

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).

Youth Advocating for Abolishing Mental Health Stigma by ChronicleofSocialChange For children suffering from mental health problems, having to constantly battle the stigma attached to such diseases can be an...