I am a firm believer in giving back and am particularly passionate
about youth initiatives and empowering young people.
Not exact matches
These efforts are
about all of us, and the
initiative has inspired more than 200 communities to redouble efforts to create pathways for all
youth and led to more than $ 500 million in private - sector commitments to do the same.
This past June I was invited to a press event at the NFL headquarters, where representatives from a group of national governing bodies for team sports talked
about their safety
initiatives, which showed just how far behind the NFL and its
youth football arm, USA Football, had been until recently.
The new rules were hailed by Dr. James Andrews, medical director of the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama and perhaps the world's foremost authority on pitching injuries and so - called «Tommy John» elbow reconstructive surgery, as the «most important injury prevention step ever initiated in
youth baseball - certain to serve as the
youth sports injury prevention cornerstone and inspiration for other
youth organizations to take the
initiative to get serious
about injury prevention in
youth sports.»
To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, CDC developed the HEADS UP Concussion in
Youth Sports initiative to offer information about concussions to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sp
Youth Sports
initiative to offer information
about concussions to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in
youth sp
youth sports.
In a bid to address this problem, the UK
Youth Parliament is launching its Project Safe Space
initiative tomorrow in Newcastle, which will give young people the chance to talk
about terrorism and related issues.
As a Southampton Town Board member, Ms. Fleming says she's helped to eliminate a budget deficit, thereby restoring the town's credit rating; focused on proper staffing and controls in the town finance department; and spearheaded economic
initiatives such as the Farm Fresh Market in Flanders, which is run by teenagers and sells local produce, and the
Youth Build Project in Riverside, which teaches young people
about sustainable building methods while restoring blighted homes.
Mr. Quaicoo commended YFM and STAR Ghana for the
initiative, and urged the
youth to learn a lot from the discussions in order to influence their friends and family who are ignorant
about electoral issues.
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.
«For years and of course as part of our Young African Leaders
initiative, we are training young entrepreneurs and we give them small grants to start or to grow businesses, but the focus of what the regional minister and I are talking
about tonight, is looking at
youth employment in the context of agro industry.»
Our mandate is to educate the world's
youth about the importance of the Polar Regions, support their continued growth and inspire and catalyze
initiatives that contribute to global sustainability.
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About Blog This is a place for discussion of
youth rights and ageism issues, for promoting
youth rights
initiatives, for supporting
youth agency, and for organizing
youth rights groups.
Washington D.C. native Rachel Freeman's desire to learn more
about community college, particularly access
initiatives for immigrants and undocumented
youth, brought her to Appian Way.
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about our current
youth initiatives!
Student voice
initiatives can range from students giving teachers their opinions
about school issues to
youth assuming leadership roles in reform efforts.
Hear three K - 12 thought leaders talk
about obstacles and opportunities within
youth systems and current K - 12 pathways
initiatives.
This Measures of Success framework serves several functions: it tells a story
about the systems - level work to better serve children and
youth across multiple
initiatives, it provides accessible information that can be used to inform cabinet - level conversations and discussions with potential partners and funders, and it can trigger conversations and collaborative action to improve capacity to use data for effective decision - making.
Expanded learning time
initiatives, including afterschool and summer programs, should help lead our nation out of its narrow educational mindset by promoting communities in which children and
youth are positioned as «makers and creators,» based on what they are passionate
about.
SEMA has launched several
youth initiatives, aiming to get younger generations excited
about automotive - based lifestyles and career opportunities.
This animal - assisted
initiative promotes the human - animal bond and providing
youth participants the opportunity to forge a healthy friendship with their canine partner while learning
about skills and strengths that they didn't know they possessed, while developing personal responsibility, empathy, and self - esteem.
And in April 16, 2010 Ernesto Pepito, director of
youth programs at the Center was invited by President Obama to serve as the
youth voice on a panel
about the America's Great Outdoors (AGO)
initiative.
The other fundamental pillar of Bodhi's multi-faceted mission are their eco-action and community engagement
initiatives, including town and beach trash clean - ups, planting trees for community reforestation projects, teaching local stakeholders
about conservation, empowering local
youth with GPS technology, offering free yoga classes in return for community service work, hosting high school students to work on community projects.
Casey Trupin, Michael Santos, Angela Vigil, Melanie Redman, Darla Bardine, and Stephen Gaetz talk
about the ABA homeless
youth initiatives and how lawyers can get involved.
For internships read Internships that work and to find out
about examples of organisations supporting volunteering
initiatives read
Youth social action and transitions into work: what role for employers?
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About Blog This is a place for discussion of
youth rights and ageism issues, for promoting
youth rights
initiatives, for supporting
youth agency, and for organizing
youth rights groups.
San Francisco, CA
About Blog This is a place for discussion of
youth rights and ageism issues, for promoting
youth rights
initiatives, for supporting
youth agency, and for organizing
youth rights groups.
Dianne Jackson, the new CEO of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and
Youth, will share her thoughts
about a new national
initiative that has a focus on parent engagement.
Read
about OJJDP's
youth prevention
initiatives and download a literature review on gang prevention from OJJDP's Model Programs Guide.
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