Sentences with phrase «as youth violence»

These programs responded to problems such as youth violence, prejudice, and discrimination by teaching skills in conflict resolution and intergroup relations.

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(Saul Bernstein: Alternatives to Violence: Alienated Youth and Riots, Race and Poverty (New York: Association Press, 1967) On the basis of his analysis, he proposes solutions that are quite as inadequate as those that France proposed to the National Liberation Front in 1957.

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, new strategies have been used to stimulate consumption — especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity.

Peace and love are high values for the youth; aggressiveness and acquisitiveness are rejected as qualities leading to violence and exploitation.

While some attention has been drawn to the Christian critique of sex and violence in television programming, the critique must also include other dehumanizing aspects such as consumerism, limited access for such groups as minorities and older people and the continuing exploitation of children and youth.

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

Men As Peacemakers: Promotes Equality & Ending Violence Against Women & Children, Sexual Assault Prevention, Youth Mentoring, and more.

The Nigerian youths have lauded the armed forces for effectively containing the Boko Haram terrorist violence in the North East, describingthe terrorist defeat as one that could only be possible through commitment and selfless service.

A key factor affecting whether the country descends into more violence is the role in the current violence of the Police, the ruling party's youth militia (imbonerakure) and the SNR (National Intelligence Service), as well as that of the more equally ethnically divided military.

The violence started Monday, October 23, with an attack on the Youth Employment Coordinator who doubles as the constituency youth organizer, Mohamed Baba, over the appointment of some youth into the security serYouth Employment Coordinator who doubles as the constituency youth organizer, Mohamed Baba, over the appointment of some youth into the security seryouth organizer, Mohamed Baba, over the appointment of some youth into the security seryouth into the security service.

2face, while addressing journalists on Wednesday in Maiduguri immediately after the visit, said, «Unless government and politicians step up their games by doing the needful in eradicating poverty among the masses, particularly youths, and do justice to all manner of people, ending insurgency and other forms of violence currently happening in some parts of the north east and the country as a whole may be difficult and unrealistic.»

The government will ask young people to behave as part of a promised crackdown on youth violence.

«Nigerian youths must exercise their franchise and refuse to be used as thugs who will unleash violence on innocent Nigerians.

Cuomo's proposal will «add a new provision to authorize OTDA to designate a «Temporary Operator» for homeless shelters and OCFS as it relates to residential programs for victims of domestic violence and runaway and homeless youth programs where the current operator has been found to have significant financial, operational, or health and safety issues,» the proposal says.

A Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of Operations, Kenneth Wujangi, has admonished the country's youth not to allow themselves to be used as tools of violence in this year's election.

Curtis Sliwa, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, called on community residents, Guardian Angels members and youth programs to work together to fight the MS - 13 street gang's violence in areas such as Brentwood, Central Islip and North Bay Shore.

According to Scarpino, the issues that he plans to address in his new role include Westchester's heroin and illegal drug epidemic — a situation he described as «a scourge that is destroying our youth» — as well as Internet predators, phone scams, child and elder abuse, domestic violence, and injustices against immigrants who he believes are preyed upon by people who take advantage of their fear of deportation.

in 2016, helping youth with various social issues, such as bullying, dating violence, and peer.

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UNDP found that less than five per cent of female youth reported crimes such as sexual violence, rape, abduction, and forced detention to the authorities.

Much like a character in The Walking Dead, schools today are confronted with a difficult moral decision: disregard graphic violence in video games and media at the risk of casting our youth adrift, or make allowances for graphic content as a means to productively reflect on and contextualize violence.

Following the violent murder of Lloyd Fouracre in 2005, the charity was formed to promote classroom education as a means of reducing and preventing youth violence.

Because of the high involvement of youths in interpersonal violence, both as perpetrators and as victims, the initiative will focus primarily on youths up to age 24.

It has published reports describing its national conferences about violence prevention which have addressed topics such as Coping with Violence in the Schools and Resilient Youth, Collaboration and Community Bviolence prevention which have addressed topics such as Coping with Violence in the Schools and Resilient Youth, Collaboration and Community BViolence in the Schools and Resilient Youth, Collaboration and Community Building.

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.»

For example, in the United States, youth with a diagnosable mental disorder account for almost 20 percent of the population of children.These children are also more likely to be from low - income families, to be exposed to violence and losses, as well as to have social and adaptive behavioral deficits that make it difficult for them to learn.

The findings also show slight increases in the proportion of school leaders worried about sexting, drugs and radicalisation for their pupils, as well as gangs and youth violence.

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Contrary to the overwhelming news reports in the media today the CDC also reports that youth violence — which is categorized as a range of behaviors from bullying, slapping, and hitting all the way to robbery, assault, rape, and homicide — has significantly decreased in the past 10 years.

Contrary to the overwhelming news reports in the media today the CDC also reports that youth violence — which is categorized as a range of behaviors from bullying, slapping...

As incidents of youth violence continue to make news headlines around the country, the plea for schools to do something is loud and clear.

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.

[As we've seen] with the gun violence protests, youth are an untapped resource, and want to speak up more and more.

With prevention as its primary objective, the program is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership.

They conduct research on youth violence prevention and school safety, and provide training and consultation on topics such as threat assessment, bullying prevention, and forensic psychology.

Dr. Noguera has published over 200 research and scholarly articles, monographs, research reports, and editorials on topics such as urban school reform, education policy, conditions that promote student achievement, the role of education in community development, youth violence, and race and ethnic relations in American society as well as the author of several books.

Schools» use of zero tolerance policies has been increasing since the 1980s as part of a societal movement to crack down on drug abuse and violence among youth.

She began her nonprofit communications work as an intern at Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence and later became co-lead of the National Youth Advisory Board for Loveisrespect.org, a teen dating violence prevention noViolence and later became co-lead of the National Youth Advisory Board for Loveisrespect.org, a teen dating violence prevention noviolence prevention nonprofit.

Throughout a semester - long course, the nonprofit implements a civics curriculum based on students» civic identities and issues they care about, such as gang violence, public transit, or youth employment.25 The course framework encourages students to think through an issue by researching its root cause, developing an action plan, getting involved in their community through engagement tactics, and presenting their efforts to their class.

Vetter previously worked as Director of Programs and Services at Open Circle, a nationally recognized elementary school social and emotional learning program; consulted on the Second Step social and emotional learning program for preschool through middle school; directed suicide and youth violence prevention programs at the Virginia Department of Health; and consulted with numerous schools and districts on effective implementation of social and emotional learning.

As researchers Catalano, Berglund, Ryan, Lonczak, and Hawkins (2004) explain in a broad article on the topic, positive youth development has the potential to increase students» academic performance and mitigate behaviors such as drug use, violence, and absenteeisAs researchers Catalano, Berglund, Ryan, Lonczak, and Hawkins (2004) explain in a broad article on the topic, positive youth development has the potential to increase students» academic performance and mitigate behaviors such as drug use, violence, and absenteeisas drug use, violence, and absenteeism.

Counseling services have proven effective at preventing youth suicide, and as a part of a comprehensive physical and mental health program, counseling has been shown to reduce violence in schools and in communities.

STRYVE's vision is safe and healthy youth who can achieve their full potential as connected and contributing members of thriving, violence - free families, schools, and communities.

It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; its effects are painfully evident in the context of teenage gangs and criminal activity, in tragedies such as in Littleton, Colorado; Tabor, Alberta and Victoria, B.C..

The goal of this webinar is to provide overview of important factors involved in charge approval / prosecution of animal cruelty cases including links to violence, risk factors, abuse as predictor and indicator crime, public interest factors, youth statistics and types of abuse.

Dogfighting is frequently related to activities such as gambling, drug dealing and illegal gun sales, and it exposes youth to violence and desensitizes them from committing acts of cruelty towards animals.

ADW in Taos now provides weekly therapeutic groups to children and families at the local domestic violence shelter; military veterans; teens with disabilities as an AmeriCorps community service program; at - risk youth at an alternative middle school; and homeless youth at the local youth crisis shelter, and more.

One attendee, Dave Grossman, has described first - person shooter games as «murder simulators» and wrote in 2016 that experts who denied ties between video games and violence in youth will «be viewed as the moral equivalent of Holocaust deniers.»

Disturbing Innocence features over fifty artists using surrogate imagery such as dolls and mannequins to pose questions regarding the «social constructs of youth, beauty, transformation, violence, sexuality, gender, identity, and loneliness.»