Sentences with phrase «age youth using»

Target demographics: We train high school - age teens, boys and girls, to be peer educators of middle school - age youth using the DMAD curriculum in schools, community agencies, and faith - based groups.

Not exact matches

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.

It is the sort of thing we teach our children (or at least the sort of thing we used to be able to teach our children before this age of incivility corrupted our youth with its rock music / hippies / video games / rap music / violent movies / Internet / baggy pants).

It is hard for this generation to understand a phrase like «those wise restraints that make men free,» perhaps because such phrases too often have been used as part of a con game to get youth to buy the illusions of middle age.

Then find that they are left with nothing when their youth gives way to a used body with the onset of age.

i think that the problem lays somewhere in the coaching set in the reserves and the first team we need a better head coach and reserve team manager that will inspire the players to make the step up and get then use to winning the reserve / youth trophies at that young age not just to develop them for first team, but inject the winning mentality into them also.

Just like any slight mistake made by Buffon gets attributed to his age (which I find absurd), any mistake Rugani makes is similarly used to prop up the position of those who favor experience over youth.

According to a 2010 study, U.S. youth ages eight to 18 spend an average of seven hours, 38 minutes each day using entertainment media such as a television and computer.

Freezing her eggs during youth for later use might be an option but, overall, some women will give birth to healthy babies even with advanced maternal age but others will not.

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 group, aged between 12 and 14, will first see the activities offered by a traditional youth centre, a multi-million pound lottery funded facility called «Myplace», as well as a sports outreach service which makes use of local venues.

Medicaid is the tool under Obamacare that is being used to plan for covering 20 - 30 million of the uninsured.The Supremes will strike a major blow against universal health care coverage if the mandate and Medicaid expansion of struck down.In addition, a negative decision on Obamacare will affect the closing of the Medicare Part D donut hole; the ability of youth remaining on parents» policies until age 26; and the funding of hundreds of community health centers.That is a lot of power being given to 5 unelected, lifetime tenure, white men.

I wonder if something like the CTF could be funded by abolishing the monarchy and confiscating their assets for a purely public use (such as a trust for youth turning age of majority)?

In addition to making it harder for youth to buy tobacco for their own use, the bill is intended to prevent youth ages 18 to 20 from buying smokes for their younger friends, city Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said, calling tobacco «the world's most dangerous drug.»

Also, Cuomo will use executive power to raise the age of criminality for youth aged 16 and 17 after failing to reach a deal with the Legislature.

They used a nationally representative sample of 5,593 middle and high school students between the ages of 12 and 17 years old living in the United States to find out how many youth participated in digital self - harm, as well as their motivations for such behavior.

«While we found that daily cannabis use and cigarette smoking were strongly linked among all subgroups, the most finding striking disparity in daily cannabis use was among youths aged 12 to 17 years,» said Renee Goodwin, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, and principal investigator.

However, cigarette smokers aged 12 to 17 were 50 times more likely to be daily cannabis users than youth who do not use cigarettes.

Using data from a nationally representative sample of youth who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a group of researchers led by Dr. Kathleen Merikangas of the National Institute of Health Intramural Research Program, evaluated symptoms of ADHD and its subtypes in 1,894 participants aged 12 - 15 years based on parent reports of symptomatology.

For example, gang prevention programs targeting students in the 6th or 7th grade would be a good use of resources because most youth who join gangs begin in their early teenage years, and as early as ages 10 and 11.

The findings, published in Tobacco Use in Canada: Patterns and Trends, reveal that approximately 20 per cent of youth between the ages of 15 and 19 experiment with vaping, the same number who try cigarettes.

The study used an age - and IQ - matched sample of school - aged youth diagnosed with ASD to assess sex differences according to the standard clinical tests including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI - R), as well as parent reported autistic traits and adaptive skills.

Meanwhile, marijuana use by youth aged 12 to 17 has not increased significantly.

At ages 13 and 18, the youths reported the degree to which their parents used psychological control.

The Elizabeth Arden Advanced Ceramide Capsules Daily Youth Restoring Serum is a lightweight, silky - smooth serum targeting aging skin and helping to replenish the skin barrier using the key ingredient and name - giver ceramides.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida About Blog A different approach to teen addiction rehabilitation & teen behavior modification, Inspirations for Youth and Families is a nationally recognized and licensed residential treatment center for teens ages 13 to 18 (and their families) who are struggling with the chaos of teen behaviors combined with drug or alcohol use, abuse, or addiction.

Age ratings are systems used to ensure that entertainment content, such as films, videos, DVDs, and computer games, are clearly labelled for the age group © Westchester Youth Soccer LeagAge ratings are systems used to ensure that entertainment content, such as films, videos, DVDs, and computer games, are clearly labelled for the age group © Westchester Youth Soccer Leagage group © Westchester Youth Soccer League.

We are so used to our culture of youth and beauty that women constantly beat themselves up over their looks, their weight, their ages, their clothes, their hair, and so forth.

In his youth, Chiron struggles to identify but when he strikes up an out - of - the - ordinary friendship with perceptive drug dealer Juan (Mahershala Ali absolutely owning the role) he begins a path to self - discovery that's much more choppy and inclement than those we're used to seeing in other coming of age sagas.

Cedar Rapids Starring Ed Helms, John C. Reilly and Anne Heche Directed by Miguel Arteta (Youth in Revolt) Rated R for crude and sexual content, language and drug use Appropriate for ages 17 +

In one scene while out taking in the spectacular mountain scenery, Mick uses a tourist telescope to illustrate the difference between how close the future seems in youth compared to how distant the past appears with age.

But fatherhood is also a tool, almost a magic wand that youth... can use to neutralize the «negativity» that surrounds them as they come of age in chaotic and violence - charged neighborhoods like East Camden.»

These demonstrations are usually undertaken by youth in masks aged between 15 and 18, attacking the main street from the side streets with Molotov cocktails in their hands, using garbage containers as barricades and fighting with the police.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Tham Lu: To address the research questions, our research used the data from the 2009 cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth, which collate information about young people's education and training activities, starting at the age of 15.

Contents of this guide run as follows: * Visual summary of plot * Storyboard resource for students to then recall the plot and key events from memory * Form and structure comprehension questions * Settings questions * Context (students explore key issues raised in the play such as youth stereotypes, gang culture, growing violence in the age of the internet etc) * Symbols and Motifs - lots of information about symbols and motifs in the play, followed by a revision activity * Key Quotes - Students explore key quotes through analysis of their meaning and significance, quotes are broken down chapter by chapter and provide thematic links etc. * Themes - Students make connections between themes, characters and events in the novel * Characterisation - Students have to complete a character profile for all the main characters using the study tasks provided * Key Terminology - Exploring some key terminology and vocabulary that will deepen their understanding of the play as well as impress examiners.

Other age groups - including youth groups and adults - have used it to perform to young audiences.

Whether you use the definition of giftedness from the United States Office of Education (US Department of Education, 1993), which describes these students as» children and youth with outstanding talent who perform or show the potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment», or as Renzulli (1978) does as the intersection and interaction among three basic clusters of human traits — above average ability, high levels of task commitment, and high levels of creativity, it is arguably the concept of asychronicity that educators must address.

Negroponte also said that they would be conducting a long - term experiment using the devices, collecting reading data from youths age 3 - 8 in India, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone.

This FREE experiential training program is designed to provide youth aged 11 - 18 with the scientific knowledge, campaign development tools, and support necessary to tackle single - use plastics in their communities.

«Scraper bikes saved my life» Started by 21 - year - old Tyrone Stevenson (aka Baby Champ and Scraper Bike King), the Scraper Bike Project now boasts 250 youths from age 7 on who build, repair and decorate their own bikes using reclaimed frames and objects like tinfoil, candy wrappers and soda cans.

Part of the study focused on Canadian youth between the ages of 18 - 24 using social networking sites such as Facebook.

Thus, many countries that have adopted age restrictions on their needle exchange programs and supervised injection facilities have seen predictably higher rates of infection and overdose among substance - using youth.

The front of the handset is black, with a white back featuring Boost's logo, and comes with a Boost icon with quick links to download Boost's own app, Twitter, SnapChat, SoundCloud, Instagram, Vine, Tumble and MessageMe, all apps aimed at the youth market who love and use these apps to most, although anyone of any adult age could make use of any of them.

Youth Development Specialists provide support to young people at risk and help them prevent situations such as using drugs or getting pregnant at an young age.

Instructed classes for youth ages 12 - 15 on safety procedures, proper use of equipment, and exercise guidelines

Overland Park, KS About Blog Coaching Soccer Weekly is a podcast that gives you an in - depth look at the methods, strategies and techniques used by a youth soccer coach working full time with players of every age and skill level.

Age accounted for about 17 % -LRB-.17 out of a maximum of 1) of the variation in drug use among the youth in their sample; positive father sentiment (closeness) accounted for another 10 %, and no other factor accounted for more than 2 %.

Mission: To expand the mentoring field's regional capacity to reach more school - aged children with caring, committed adult mentors, using best practices, training and professional support to achieve lifelong positive educational and behavioral outcomes for youth.