Sentences with phrase «co-empowers youth of color»

Marginalized youth in the child welfare system, including LGBTQ youth and youth of color, deserve culturally competent, safe, and supportive care.

All of our organizations have campaigns to build the power of youth of color to access fresh and healthy food in schools through research, negotiation, and direct action.

Robert Ziegler, who runs a gay bar on Christopher Street, and who has collected more than 1,000 signatures on a petition in support of making Christopher Street safer, said he received an angry call recently from the Chelsea organization FIERCE, which serves LGBT youth of color.

LGBTQ young people, particularly youth of color, deserve safe and supportive spaces in which they can find community.

Youth of color, the governor wrote in the executive order, are disproportionately affected.

Still, I say, go with Obama, the man who wants to send more Bronx and inner city youth of color to Afghanistan, and leave the Bronx already!

Andrea Ritchie, the senior policy counsel for a group called Streetwise and Safe, highlighted the impact that police encounters have on «LGBTQ youth of color» in particular.

The fanatical homophobia behind the Councilmember's comments is particularly damaging to LGBT youth of color, who face the highest rates of depression and suicide among any LGBT demographic.

The new documentary returns to a safe haven for LGBTQ youths of color first examined in the landmark film Paris Is Burning.

A film collaboration between Kiki gatekeeper, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordenö, we're granted exclusive access into this high stakes world, where tough competitions act as a gateway into the daily lives of LGBTQ youth of color in NYC.

Moreover, a larger percentage of youth of color report same - sex behavior or GLB identity than the percentage of white youth (31 percent vs. 26 percent).

Most compelling is the potential these hearings have to illuminate the unique circumstances of GLBT youth who often remain invisible and silenced in these conversations and who are multiply marginalized — those from lower - income backgrounds and youth of color — given the commission's call for youth from diverse backgrounds to participate.

Strengthening school districts — Launched in 2009, the Irvine - funded California Linked Learning District Initiative was implemented over seven years within nine California school districts that, together, served 14 percent of the state's public high school students (including a high percentage of low - income youth of color, within rural and urban geographies).

Students from Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights recently took to the streets to demand action on gun control and to challenge the criminalization of youth of color.

According to Act 4 Juvenile Justice, for more than 35 years the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) has provided critical federal funding to states to comply with a set of core requirements designed to protect children from the dangers of adult jails and lockups; keep young people safe; keep children charged with status offenses out of locked custody; and address the disparate treatment of youth of color in the justice system.

The research will also explore whether LGBT youth of color feel welcome in GSAs, or seek and receive support elsewhere.

Mundy - Shephard says that LGBT youth of color generally choose not to participate in GSAs and her research will examine whether the students» reasons vary by racial group, and the extent to which these reasons are affected by internal and external perceptions of LGBT identity as being incompatible with racial minority status, i.e., whether they perceive non-heterosexuality as a form of «acting white.»

It has led to important conversations about the criminalization of youth of color, the militarization of the police, and what we can do to end such injustices.

Unfortunately, too many of our schools fail to meet the needs of all students, especially youth of color.

««By teaching to the test, we are depriving a generation of youth, particularly youth of color growing up in low - income communities, from developing the critical thinking skills they need, and our country needs, to be competitive in this global economy,» added Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.

The most recent 2016 report shows that chronic absence affects 7.3 % of California elementary school students, with disproportionately high rates of absenteeism and suspensions for youth of color, as well as low - income, homeless, foster and special education students.

Inner - city youth of color are often confronted by mixed messages.

This film examines Oakland's evolution through the eyes of social entrepreneurs determined that youth of color not be left on the sidelines as Silicon Valley spreads into the home of the second largest black community in California.

Every year we reach 3,000 working class immigrant youth and youth of color with innovative peer - led college access support, creative arts and media programs, youth - focused political education and more.

On the anniversary of Freddie Gray's death and to commemorate the anniversary of the Columbine tragedy, more than 20 mostly Black and Brown - led youth organizations, representing thousands of youth of color from across the country, published a petition calling attention to their demands in the ongoing debate around school safety, gun control and violence against youth.

Her research focuses on the role of schools and community - based organizations in shaping developmental outcomes for youth of color.

The #YouthDemand statement highlights the already deeply entrenched «school - to - prison pipeline,» and makes a compelling demand for reforms for school safety and gun control that do not involve increased policing, surveillance and doubling down on policies that criminalize of youth of color at their schools.

Progressive projects — with youth of color in the lead — are demanding living wage work, an end to handouts of public lands and public dollars that privilege the wealthy few, and a city that protects all of its residents from the perils of poverty, eviction, criminalization, deportation and violence.

And, you know, speaking to education and justice, in 2011, the u.s. department — the departments of education and justice launched a supportive school discipline initiative to reduce exclusionary discipline policies, practices and their impact on youth of color and youth with disabilities.

Her current research and teaching is focused on cultivating asset - based mindsets in teachers and administrators that work with youth of color.

Student Safety Coalition works to end the New York City school to prison pipeline and its disproportionate impact on youth of color and youth with special needs.

Ken Taylor, Executive Director of Kids Forward, believes the actions promoted by this bill would do little to protect teachers, and would instead make it harder for students to achieve their full academic potential, particularly youth of color.

These ineffective practices, which disengage students and can lead to imprisonment or dropping out, impact youth of color far more than their white peers.

It is our students — most of whom are youth of color — who will be the collateral damage of adult - centered fights that produce more polarization instead of great schools.

When such educators were students themselves, they were encouraged to «be critical, to take risks, to disagree, to not conform...» (Griffin, 2016); however, «they are trained to instill these opposite values in youth of color, even punishing students for being critical or showing emotion» (Griffin, 2016).

Libraries will be selected to include a representative sample of the United States, including geographical diversity as well as programs that focus on girls, youth of color and those from lower income communities.

Sacramento CA About Blog Youth Forward is a new organization dedicated to supporting disadvantaged youth and youth of color through education and community action.

Sacramento CA About Blog Youth Forward is a new organization dedicated to supporting disadvantaged youth and youth of color through education and community action.

Develop and implement promising and evidence - based programs and practices focused on improving outcomes for children and youth of color.

On February 13, leaders from Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) and other Dignity in Schools Campaign - Los Angeles members gathered at U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's field office releasing a statement by youth of color on gun violence and school safety.

Not exact matches

Dru Levasseur, Transgender Rights Project director for the LGBT - rights group Lambda Legal, said postelection worries were particularly intense among transgender youths and immigrants, and transgender people of color.

Hundreds of young people of color gather to learn about climate justice and just transitions through an innovative agenda that is entirely developed and implemented by youth leaders.

Her charge: We were ignoring women of color, transgendered homeless youth, and others.

And, if I may note my own two recent offerings: The revised and expanded Letters to a Young Catholic (Basic Books) is intended for the young from sixteen to (at least) eighty - plus, while City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Kraków (Image) will, I hope, be welcomed by all attending World Youth Day - 2016, in person or in spirit, in print or in the all - color - photography e-book.

We need to understand the legacy of lynching more honestly and carefully, we need to even revisit segregation and the legacy that it's created if we're going to make progress I think there is a continuing presumption of dangerousness and guilt that gets assigned to people of color, I think it would break Dr. King's heart to know that black youth in New York are getting stopped and frisked, that this police violence that has been such a problem for over a century continues, that we haven't made the commitment to overcoming bigotry and race discrimination in the way we need to.

The powerful feelings of conflict, loneliness, guilt, hope, passion, rage that came out «in living color,» as one youth commented, opened the doors to honest, open sharing.

Other groups we have hosted recently include The Rockland Farm Alliance • Just Food • Bergen SWAN • Threefold Mystery Drama Group • Light Color and Darkness Foundation Course • Center for Biography and Social Art • Fiber Craft Studio • Otto Specht School • The Greenhorns • The Collegium of the North American School of Spiritual Science • The Agriculture Section • Weleda • The Christian Community Youth Conference.

And to pair function with form, we also offer youth swim goggles in a wide array of fun colors and designs!

All of our kids birthday shirts are custom made using quality interlock cotton shirts (the thick stuff) and come in bright colors and sizes from infant to youth.

Or maybe the problem is simply the rose - colored glasses older generations tend to have about their own youth when they share idealized versions of «the good old days.»