Sentences with phrase «better for youth aged»

The job situation in May looked better for youth aged 15 to 24 as Statistics Canada reported Friday that employment rose by 28,000, the result of full - time gains, largely in Ontario and British Columbia.

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Most recently, it includes the «family tax cut», better known as income splitting for families with children under the age of eighteen, along with enrichments to the Universal Child Care Benefit (offset by the elimination of the Child Tax Credit) and to the youth fitness tax credit.

It's clear that British Columbians want to see better supports put in place for youth aging out of care.

«B.C. was the second - best province in Canada just six years ago for youth economic engagement, but now Statistics Canada says that one in 10 B.C. youth between the ages of 15 and 19 are not working or in school,» said New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby.

This year's national gatherings will be bigger and better than ever, with plenty on offer for all ages, including a full programme of seminars, extended kids» work, a youth stream, sports and activities, cafés, art workshops, late - night entertainment, a marketplace packed with resources and volunteering opportunities, and a big family funfair!»

Youths would not have been able to get close to the cage without someone making a fuss; you're probably looking for someone who's there often enough not to draw notice; perhaps a volunteer there, or a regular attendee, with recent financial woes; someone adult to middle age, likely male, likely in the trades or the military; not overly well - educated; maybe high school.

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.

«The quality of this league winning squad, and the balance of ages within it, bodes well for continued success at the highest level whilst the structure of the youth set - up will ensure that the long - term future of the club remains a bright one.

As we know many goalkeepers tend to get better with age, but when you consider that Jurgen Klopp is supposed to be building for the future, investing in youth seems like a much smarter decision as opposed to having one or two years of nostalgia with no guarantee of success.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

Train Properly A good strength and conditioning program can be safe and effective for youth athletes of all ages.

«I have great respect for the researchers at Harborview and think this was a good study, and was great to see somebody providing data on youth younger than high school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school level.

All of the above applies to the SGP Youths as well, but for the Youths I would expect the relatively high number of members to be even more pronounced as young adults raised in a religious family and community where > 20 % of the population vote for the SGP tend to have pretty clear views on their political and religious affiliation at a relatively young age, whereas other people tend to choose their political affiliations at a later age (if they ever choose one).

This change in policy through raising the age of criminal responsibility coupled with the recognition that the process must also be different for youth via family or youth - specific avenues, is a critical step towards meeting our responsibility to open doors of opportunity, not shut them,» said Liliana Polo - McKenna, Interim Chief Executive Officer for Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow.

The H&HS Cabinet is comprised of representatives from the County's health and human services related departments, including Health (including the Division of Veterans Services), Mental Hygiene, Community & Family Services (including the Division of Youth Services), Probation & Community Corrections and the Office for the Aging, working together to coordinate service delivery to provide better outcomes for families.

As part of the first - of - its - kind county / school collaboration, local leaders opened the Center for Safe and Healthy Youth, a one - stop location for needs assessment, as well as school support, mental health and social services and juvenile justice - related services for struggling youngsters in Rockland County, ages 10 to 18.

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.

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.

While increased telomerase activity could bring youth to aging cells and cure premature aging - like diseases, too much of a good thing can be damaging for the individual.

Her background in education fuels a passion for social activism and working with youth who have experienced trauma as well as sexual abuse survivors of all ages.

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Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

For the inaugural Best Youth Performance, recognizing performances by actors who were 18 years of age or younger at the time filming began, The Witch sees lead actress Anya Taylor - Joy and co-star Harvey Scrimshaw competing with Royalty Hightower from The Fits, Sunny Pawar in Lion, and Alex Hibbert from Moonlight.

From writers / directors Jay and Mark Duplass (Cyrus) comes Jeff Who Lives at Home, a coming of age comedy for two men who are already well beyond their youth.

Winner at the Fingal Film Festival for Best Feature, South is an amiable coming - of - age drama that captures warmly the awkwardness of youth, e.g. trying desperately to get served in off - licences to impress the opposite sex, getting into conversations with odd people by accident and not knowing how to excuse oneself.

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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.

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I have found that books on youth culture, no matter the decade, tend to find similar ground in desperation and nostalgia, as well as the fact that there seems to be no cure for coming - of - age.

Additional categories which will receive awards include a youth audience award (chosen by attendees aged 5 - 12) and special mentions for the best short film and the best documentary (full - length) feature.

Though I have many a fond memory of the N64 and Playstation in my youth, for the most part, they haven't aged well.

For this Tuesday Evenings presentation, Lawrence reflects on being born toward the end of the analogue age, coming of age as the digital age developed, and maturing in the full - blown digital age as she shares observations concerning how the materiality of the information system that shapes one's youth informs the ways in which one interacts with new information systems, as well as noting aspects of living in the transition between them.

It's not the eternal youth of Dorian Gray that can be seen in Franziska Klotz's works, nor the horrors of the portrait, which has aged so terribly in his stead, but the dignity of aging and a respect for history, for the individual as well as the entirety of humanity.

You know, Michael, it is no wonder the hive's youth - master talent - scouts latched on to you at an early age — I mean, like your odious little sneak and shameless suck - up qualities are everything the hive looks for in a good - comrade.

Only when I learned the program had been organized for youth, by youth, that my trainers were my age, and that they were leading incredible campaigns and changing their campuses and communities for the better, did I say to myself, «I can do that too.»»

PROJECT FOR PRIDE, Kingston, NH (Mar 2013 — Jan 2016) Youth Program Coordinator • Held 3 team building exercises, resulting in increased efficiency in terms of meeting program deadlines • Created and implemented a series of youth programs for age groups between 8 and 18 years • Coordinated a large event for recruitment of members, resulting in 58 % of youngsters between the ages of 10 and 18 enrolled into different program modules • Introduced the concept of self and group care initiatives, thereby streamlining outdoor activities such as camping and hiking • Provided logistical support in developing both short and long term program plans and ways of monitoring each module's progress • Designed performance measures and perform monitoring activities to ensure that desired outcomes are met • Developed and implemented periodic youth outreach programs to meet program needs and capacity • Identified open positions within the program and indulged in hiring and training procedures to fill them • Supervised daily activities of enrolled members and ensured that all requirements of the program are being filled • Designed and executed youth program according to each individual member's ability to cope • Organized training programs for staff members to ensure delivery of exceptionally well - placed supervision • Monitored performance of both members and staff to ensure efficient functioning of progrFOR PRIDE, Kingston, NH (Mar 2013 — Jan 2016) Youth Program Coordinator • Held 3 team building exercises, resulting in increased efficiency in terms of meeting program deadlines • Created and implemented a series of youth programs for age groups between 8 and 18 years • Coordinated a large event for recruitment of members, resulting in 58 % of youngsters between the ages of 10 and 18 enrolled into different program modules • Introduced the concept of self and group care initiatives, thereby streamlining outdoor activities such as camping and hiking • Provided logistical support in developing both short and long term program plans and ways of monitoring each module's progress • Designed performance measures and perform monitoring activities to ensure that desired outcomes are met • Developed and implemented periodic youth outreach programs to meet program needs and capacity • Identified open positions within the program and indulged in hiring and training procedures to fill them • Supervised daily activities of enrolled members and ensured that all requirements of the program are being filled • Designed and executed youth program according to each individual member's ability to cope • Organized training programs for staff members to ensure delivery of exceptionally well - placed supervision • Monitored performance of both members and staff to ensure efficient functioning of proYouth Program Coordinator • Held 3 team building exercises, resulting in increased efficiency in terms of meeting program deadlines • Created and implemented a series of youth programs for age groups between 8 and 18 years • Coordinated a large event for recruitment of members, resulting in 58 % of youngsters between the ages of 10 and 18 enrolled into different program modules • Introduced the concept of self and group care initiatives, thereby streamlining outdoor activities such as camping and hiking • Provided logistical support in developing both short and long term program plans and ways of monitoring each module's progress • Designed performance measures and perform monitoring activities to ensure that desired outcomes are met • Developed and implemented periodic youth outreach programs to meet program needs and capacity • Identified open positions within the program and indulged in hiring and training procedures to fill them • Supervised daily activities of enrolled members and ensured that all requirements of the program are being filled • Designed and executed youth program according to each individual member's ability to cope • Organized training programs for staff members to ensure delivery of exceptionally well - placed supervision • Monitored performance of both members and staff to ensure efficient functioning of proyouth programs for age groups between 8 and 18 years • Coordinated a large event for recruitment of members, resulting in 58 % of youngsters between the ages of 10 and 18 enrolled into different program modules • Introduced the concept of self and group care initiatives, thereby streamlining outdoor activities such as camping and hiking • Provided logistical support in developing both short and long term program plans and ways of monitoring each module's progress • Designed performance measures and perform monitoring activities to ensure that desired outcomes are met • Developed and implemented periodic youth outreach programs to meet program needs and capacity • Identified open positions within the program and indulged in hiring and training procedures to fill them • Supervised daily activities of enrolled members and ensured that all requirements of the program are being filled • Designed and executed youth program according to each individual member's ability to cope • Organized training programs for staff members to ensure delivery of exceptionally well - placed supervision • Monitored performance of both members and staff to ensure efficient functioning of progrfor age groups between 8 and 18 years • Coordinated a large event for recruitment of members, resulting in 58 % of youngsters between the ages of 10 and 18 enrolled into different program modules • Introduced the concept of self and group care initiatives, thereby streamlining outdoor activities such as camping and hiking • Provided logistical support in developing both short and long term program plans and ways of monitoring each module's progress • Designed performance measures and perform monitoring activities to ensure that desired outcomes are met • Developed and implemented periodic youth outreach programs to meet program needs and capacity • Identified open positions within the program and indulged in hiring and training procedures to fill them • Supervised daily activities of enrolled members and ensured that all requirements of the program are being filled • Designed and executed youth program according to each individual member's ability to cope • Organized training programs for staff members to ensure delivery of exceptionally well - placed supervision • Monitored performance of both members and staff to ensure efficient functioning of progrfor recruitment of members, resulting in 58 % of youngsters between the ages of 10 and 18 enrolled into different program modules • Introduced the concept of self and group care initiatives, thereby streamlining outdoor activities such as camping and hiking • Provided logistical support in developing both short and long term program plans and ways of monitoring each module's progress • Designed performance measures and perform monitoring activities to ensure that desired outcomes are met • Developed and implemented periodic youth outreach programs to meet program needs and capacity • Identified open positions within the program and indulged in hiring and training procedures to fill them • Supervised daily activities of enrolled members and ensured that all requirements of the program are being filled • Designed and executed youth program according to each individual member's ability to cope • Organized training programs for staff members to ensure delivery of exceptionally well - placed supervision • Monitored performance of both members and staff to ensure efficient functioning of proyouth outreach programs to meet program needs and capacity • Identified open positions within the program and indulged in hiring and training procedures to fill them • Supervised daily activities of enrolled members and ensured that all requirements of the program are being filled • Designed and executed youth program according to each individual member's ability to cope • Organized training programs for staff members to ensure delivery of exceptionally well - placed supervision • Monitored performance of both members and staff to ensure efficient functioning of proyouth program according to each individual member's ability to cope • Organized training programs for staff members to ensure delivery of exceptionally well - placed supervision • Monitored performance of both members and staff to ensure efficient functioning of progrfor staff members to ensure delivery of exceptionally well - placed supervision • Monitored performance of both members and staff to ensure efficient functioning of programs

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.

The Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes32 and the Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes — Parent Version33 are structured psychiatric interviews designed to assess psychopathology according to DSM - IV criteria in clinical and epidemiological research with youth aged 6 to 18 years.34 - 38 The Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes and the Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes — Parent Version assess 20 behavioral, anxiety, mood, and other syndromes as well as psychosocial stressors.

Those chosen were picked for their experience and knowledge of national representative body mechanisms, as well as being selected to represent a balance of geographic representation, gender, age and youth members.

Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) was created for children and adolescents aged 12 - 17 years old struggling with chronic, delinquent behavior as well as youth with severe emotional...

The normalcy aspect of the law promotes participation in age - appropriate activities and experiences that allow for healthy development and well - being for youth involved in foster care.

AAI, Adult Attachment Interview; AFFEX, System for Identifying Affect Expression by Holistic Judgement; AIM, Affect Intensity Measure; AMBIANCE, Atypical Maternal Behaviour Instrument for Assessment and Classification; ASCT, Attachment Story Completion Task; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; BEST, Borderline Evaluation of Severity over Time; BPD, borderline personality disorder; BPVS - II, British Picture Vocabulary Scale II; CASQ, Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire; CBCL, Child Behaviour Checklist; CDAS - R, Children's Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale - Revised; CDEQ, Children's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire; CDIB, Child Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; CGAS, Child Global Assessment Schedule; CRSQ, Children's Response Style Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; DASS, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; DIB - R, Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; EA, Emotional Availability Scales; ECRS, Experiences in Close Relationships Scale; EMBU, Swedish acronym for Own Memories Concerning Upbringing; EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; FES, Family Environment Scale; FSS, Family Satisfaction Scale; FTRI, Family Trauma and Resilience Interview; IBQ - R, Infant Behaviour Questionnaire, Revised; IPPA, Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment; K - SADS, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children; KSADS - E, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Episodic Version; MMD, major depressive disorder; PACOTIS, Parental Cognitions and Conduct Toward the Infant Scale; PPQ, Perceived Parenting Quality Questionnaire; PD, personality disorder; PPVT - III, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition; PSI - SF, Parenting Stress Index Short Form; RSSC, Reassurance - Seeking Scale for Children; SCID - II, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV; SCL -90-R, Symptom Checklist 90 Revised; SCQ, Social Communication Questionnaire; SEQ, Children's Self - Esteem Questionnaire; SIDP - IV, Structured Interview for DSM - IV Personality; SPPA, Self - Perception Profile for Adolescents; SSAGA, Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism; TCI, Temperament and Character Inventory; YCS, Youth Chronic Stress Interview; YSR, Youth Self - Report.

$ 212.3 million to the Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs to assist with welfare payment reforms housing and land as well as additional support for children and families including the establishment of a diversionary scheme for Indigenous youth from the ages 12 - 18 to provide an alternative to alcohol and substance misuse;

Most recently, Allison presented at the annual conference for the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC), on topics relating to the unique challenges facing relative caregivers, as well as the challenges and opportunities for transitional age youth.

Programs for transitional age youth are available as well.

These youth are at high risk for chronic delinquency, drug abuse, and HIV / AIDS and are particularly vulnerable to detrimental social, health, and mental health outcomes including chronic offending, drug dependence, and contracting HIV, as well as for a host of additional problems as they age (e.g., AIDS, physical and mental health problems, incarceration, early death).

Cross-Sectional Regressions Predicting Caregiver - Reported Health Outcomes (Adherence and Quality of Life) From Youth - Reported Friendship Quality in Non-CF Best Friendships, Controlling for Age and Health Status