Sentences with phrase «among black youth»

Longitudinal pathways to psychological adjustment among black youth living in single - parent households

Mentoring is another strategy that has proved effective in combating the social isolation pervasive among black youth.

Not exact matches

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

In 1992, among the high - scoring high school seniors (those with test scores in the top tenth of the class), black and Hispanic youth were three times as likely to be from families with incomes less than $ 20,000 than white and other non-Hispanic youth (12)(see figure, below).

In particular, student debt was associated with an increased risk of boomeranging among black, but not white, youth.

However, when they dug deeper into this finding, they found that while wealth buffers debt among white youth, this is not the case for black youth.

Even among many of the most elite enclaves of blackness today, power is uniquely vulnerable and fragile, and there are as of yet no suits of any cost that will stop black youth from the ravages of police brutality the world over.

David is happy to play along as Bud, but Jennifer is quickly bored with being Mary Sue and she introduces sexual knowledge that rouses emotions both good and bad among Pleasantville's youth with the result that their images change from black and white to full colour.

It is also set to celebrate Elizabeth Banks (Love & Mercy), Joel Edgerton (Black Mass), Paul Dano (Love & Mercy, Youth) and Jacob Tremblay (Room) with the Virtuoso Award among additional, yet to be announced, honorees.

Black, D. S., Milam, J., & Sussman, S. Sitting - Meditation Interventions Among Youth: A Review of Treatment Efficacy.

Moreover, these economic struggles have not affected all populations equally, contributing to large gaps among black, white, and Hispanic youth.

Other examples of books richly reflecting the black experience can be found among other books honored this year at the Youth Media Awards.

She is a board member for a transitional home for men trying to reintegrate into society after incarceration, and a member of the Toronto District School Board black student achievement advisory committee where she drafts policies to reduce drop - out rates among black high school students, as well as coaches soccer at the Burlington youth soccer club.