Sentences with phrase «among homeless youths»

The blueprint released today adds 30 additional points, which includes routine HIV testing, monitoring and improving rates of viral suppression, ensuring access to stable housing, reducing HIV infections among homeless youth and increasing employment opportunities and access.

A Review of Interventions for Substance Use Among Homeless Youth Xiang (2013) Research on Social Work Practice, 23 (1) View Abstract Summarizes existing evidence from fifteen studies on interventions used to address substance use problems among homeless youth.

She has examined paths into and out of homelessness, as well as the risk for HIV among homeless youth in the U.S. and Australia.

The Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania recently completed a multi-city research study on the prevalence of sex trafficking among homeless youth, with a special emphasis on child welfare risk and protective factors.

Network Approaches to Substance Use and HIV / Hepatitis C Risk among Homeless Youth and Adult Women in the United States: A Review

[jounal] Unger, J. B. / 1998 / Stress, coping, and social support among homeless youth / Journal of Adolescent Research 13: 134 ~ 157

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Here in the U.S., homeless and suicide rates among LGBT youth remain shockingly high, in part because conservative Christian leaders like John McArthur instruct parents of gay children to «hand them over to Satan» and refuse to associate with them.

Steve: I also worked among youth - at - risk, men in prison, Latino day workers, and homeless encamped in the woods [ex-felons, drug users, and those with mental disorders].

Watching de Blasio and Quinn, in particular, demonstrate their detailed knowledge about homeless LGBT youth and preventing sero - conversion among gay men proved that our community's concerns are at the top of the agenda in the Democratic mayoral primary contest.

Today's announcement was made during the City's first «Homelessness Among LGBTQ Persons of Color Awareness Breakfast,» sponsored by the Department of Homeless Services, Department of Youth & Community Development held at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.

Chief among those proposals were establishment of a Mayor's Office of HIV / AIDS Policy, funding of shelter beds for homeless youth to eliminate the current waiting list that averages 350 per night at such facilities, and capital spending for senior housing that would serve the needs of LGBT New Yorkers.

The report underscores the importance of providing education to homeless children and youth and the need for increased coordination among city agencies and the DOE to provide services to these students....

One — Shearwater Education Foundation — is targeting pregnant mothers, homeless teens and emancipated foster care youth, among others.

Among the changes: students who indicate on the FAFSA that they're homeless will automatically have the option to select that they've already received an unaccompanied homeless youth determination.

Dietary intake, overweight status, and perceptions of food insecurity among homeless Minnesotan youth.

[3] The authorizing legislation for the property tax includes the following uses [RSMo 210.861.4]: (1) Up to thirty days of temporary shelter for abused, neglected, runaway, homeless or emotionally disturbed youth; respite care services; and services to unwed mothers; (2) Outpatient chemical dependency and psychiatric treatment programs; counseling and related services as a part of transitional living programs; home - based and community - based family intervention programs; unmarried parent services; crisis intervention services, inclusive of telephone hotlines; and prevention programs which promote healthy lifestyles among children and youth and strengthen families; (3) Individual, group, or family professional counseling and therapy services; psychological evaluations; and mental health screenings.

She has worked with the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY), the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP), the National Disabilities Rights Network (NDRN), Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), and the American Bar Association, among other organizations.

Organizations that serve the needs of homeless youth, new immigrants and women in transition, among others, were represented at the functions.