Sentences with phrase «for youth involvement»

2007 CFSR ToolKit for Youth Involvement: Engaging Youth in the Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 30,500 KB) National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement & National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development (2007) Offers resources for partnering with youth during the CFSRs, including a youth involvement checklist, feedback forms and debriefing strategies, descriptions of the CFSR process, tools for implementing surveys and conducting focus groups, and an adaptable PowerPoint presentation for States.

There are inadequate platforms for youth involvement in decision making and their involvement in development process within parties and the society.

Not exact matches

The Youth Alliance League got underway for 2017 last weekend with Burnley having a watching brief after our game against Walsall was called off due to our involvement in the FA Youth Cup on the Friday against Norwich City.

With youth sports organizations now offering leagues for 4 - and 5 - year - olds, travel teams for 9 - year - olds, and options for year - round involvement, some families find sports to be «too much of a good thing» and struggle to find a balance as they encounter the «earlier is better» and «more is better» mindset.

I reckon that for Nigeria to record the long - sought transformation that will bring happiness to every citizen, youth empowerment and involvement in social administration, might just be the key.

He frowned at the incessant involvement of youths across the world in all forms of social vices and immoral acts, saying the time has come for government at all levels to rise to the occasion and find a lasting solution to the menace.

The program will focus on youth in the city between the ages of 14 - 24 who are at risk for involvement with violence.

The effect is largest for African American males and youth who are at highest risk for criminal involvement.

«This is an opportunity for tens of thousands of middle and high schools students, teachers, parents and community members across the country to begin or continue their involvement in youth activism,» said Doug Pietrzak, Ed.M.»

Results: Initial findings support that the Becoming a Man mentoring program and Match - style tutoring together can be extremely protective against risk of violence involvement for even youth in the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago.

Your responses will help to guide efforts to improve services and results for children and youth (kindergarten to 21), and improve efforts to increase family involvement.

Project LIVE & Achieve is a comprehensive program bringing schools, community groups, and faith organizations together to promote non-violence, academic success, high expectations and community involvement, with the main goal being to decrease violence impacting New Orleans youth and to strive for higher academic outcomes for students.

Goal 3: Establish SEL4MA as a resource for schools and communities by enhancing grassroots involvement to promote a culturally aware and responsive SEL for teachers, administrators, nonprofits / advocates, youth, parents, public officials, practitioners and businesses.

As part of states» involvement in the New Skills for Youth Initiative, they conducted an in depth needs assessment as well as a comprehensive, three - year career readiness action plan.

(Youth Achievement through Learning, Involvement, Volunteering and Employment) to help establish and support programs in science and children's museums that provided positive, hands - on work and learning opportunities for young people ages 10 to 17.

In this presentation, Georgia Hall, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the National Institute for Out - of - School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women, will share research findings from two studies (NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development; Program Practices: An Investigation of Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Standards and Practices in Out - of - School Time Programs) that help us to understand children's engagement in physical activity and how to promote involvement on an individual and program level.

In addition to her involvement with Artists for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), Thomas continued to organize art programs and teach art classes to local Washington, DC youth throughout her life.

Your involvement has helped us fill critical needs in Chicago's support system for artists — youth and adult, novice to professional.

PlatteForum is a one - of - a-kind art and youth development center that has a variety of opportunities for individual involvement.

Joshua Carrera, a «youth ambassador» to the talks for the Nature Conservancy (here's some background on his past involvement with the group), sent this note from the meeting:

I was excited to see some of my favorite tribe members sharing their gifts, like Mikki Willis of Elevate Studios, who told us that their entire crew meditates together for 90 minutes every day before beginning their work, Jason Mraz came out to speak to the youth, and then talked to everyone about his involvement with Free the Slaves.

Service Award for outstanding service by an adult individual for demonstrated involvement in the development and implementation of Scouting opportunities for youth from rural or low - income urban backgrounds.

Increased community involvement by bringing people on campus for tours, service projects, and youth activities

New Roles for Families in Child Welfare: Strategies for Expanding Family Involvement Beyond the Case Level E. Williamson & A. Gray, Child and Youth Services Review, 33, pp. 1212 — 1216, 2011 Describes findings from a series of retrospective interviews with Systems of Care participants regarding capacity - building activities and lessons learned for family iInvolvement Beyond the Case Level E. Williamson & A. Gray, Child and Youth Services Review, 33, pp. 1212 — 1216, 2011 Describes findings from a series of retrospective interviews with Systems of Care participants regarding capacity - building activities and lessons learned for family involvementinvolvement.

For example, simply teaching social skills to an incarcerated youth who has a history of stealing, fighting, and gang involvement will have little effect on his or her behavior upon returning to an environment that continues to include antisocial friends, drug - using parents, a crime - ridden neighborhood, or an inadequate school.

Welfare reform has disrupted Medicaid benefits for millions of children who need treatment.97, 98 Medicaid enables many youth to receive psychiatric treatment.99 Many parents who left welfare to go to work found their new jobs did not provide insurance or, when available, they could not afford copayments.100, 101 The State Children's Health Insurance Program, designed to offset the loss of Medicaid, did not fulfill its intended purpose.98, 102 Moreover, welfare reform has not substantially decreased poverty103; many poor children have become even poorer.104 Poor children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justice system.

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Foster Parent Involvement (PDF - 249 KB) University of New Mexico; Corinne Wolfe Children's Law Center; Advocacy, Inc.; New Mexico CASA Network; New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department; New Mexico Citizens Review Board; & New Mexico Children's Court Improvement Commission (2011) Discusses the importance of foster parents as integral members of the treatment team, including current and best practices for ensuring foster parent iInvolvement (PDF - 249 KB) University of New Mexico; Corinne Wolfe Children's Law Center; Advocacy, Inc.; New Mexico CASA Network; New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department; New Mexico Citizens Review Board; & New Mexico Children's Court Improvement Commission (2011) Discusses the importance of foster parents as integral members of the treatment team, including current and best practices for ensuring foster parent involvementinvolvement.

Community involvement Members of service organisations, business, law enforcement groups, youth - serving organisations and religious institutes are also encouraged to participate in the program through Skills for Growing workshops, school climate activities, panel discussions, service - learning projects and school - sponsored parent meetings.

Previous literature on risk and protective factors for immigrant and refugee youth gang involvement has been inconclusive.

In this presentation, Georgia Hall, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the National Institute for Out - of - School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women, will share research findings from two studies (NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development; Program Practices: An Investigation of Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Standards and Practices in Out - of - School Time Programs) that help us to understand children's engagement in physical activity and how to promote involvement on an individual and program level.

Goal 3: Establish SEL4MA as a resource for schools and communities by enhancing grassroots involvement to promote a culturally aware and responsive SEL for teachers, administrators, nonprofits / advocates, youth, parents, public officials, practitioners and businesses.

Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts developed Get Real, a comprehensive program targeted for middle - school students that emphasizes healthy relationships and family involvement, and has been used in close to 200 schools and youth programs in five states.

The Healthy Families book provides supportive information for parents about the evaluation and treatment process for youth with sexual behavior problems, and also includes a parental involvement section so that parents can follow and participate in their child's treatment process.

«Family involvement in education — defined as parenting, home - school relationships, and responsibility for learning outcomes — is just as important for older youth as it is for younger children.»

The number of sessions can be increased up to 20 for youth with more severe problems such as involvement with the juvenile or criminal justice system.

Most unaccompanied youth are unable to access safe housing or shelter, for a combination of reasons, including: being too young to consent for services without a parent; fear of child welfare involvement; and the lack of services overall: more than half of those who seek shelter can not access it because shelters are full.

Schools can set the stage for meaningful parent and youth involvement, but it doesn't happen overnight.

Results indicated that campaigns that included increased involvement and limit - setting were beneficial only for youths who were rated in early childhood as temperamentally resistant to control.

First, the present study affirmed that positive youth development is comprised of fifteen inter-related constructs, namely, bonding, social competence, emotional competence, cognitive competence, behavioural competence, moral competence, self - efficacy, prosocial norms, resilience, self - determination, spirituality, clear and positive identity, beliefs in the future, prosocial involvement, and recognition for positive behaviour (Catalano et al. 2004), with beliefs in the future having the strongest influence on positive youth development, followed by spirituality (Fig. 6).

However, parents commonly withdraw their involvement in diabetes care as youth enter adolescence [25 - 28], often solely as a function of age and not youths» capacity for autonomous self - care [21,23,29,30].

Parental involvement was reported as increasing, effectiveness for pro-social youth development (Catalano et al., 2002 ***; Durlak et al., 2007 ***), universal interventions to promote mental health (Wells et al., 2003 ***; Adi et al., 2007a ***), stress and coping interventions (Adi et al., 2007a ***), interventions to reduce violence and bullying (Adi et al., 2007b ***; Blank et al., 2009 ***; Farrington and Ttofi, 2009 ***) targeted approaches to prevent mental disorders (Greenberg et al., 2001 **; Shucksmith et al., 2007 ***) and conduct disorder (Waddell et al., 2007 **).

In particular, they discussed their direct involvement with the Spokane Police Department's Youth and Police Initiative where officers and at - risk teens meet for a week to break down barriers and stereotypes and have honest conversations about issues facing youth and the role of law enforceYouth and Police Initiative where officers and at - risk teens meet for a week to break down barriers and stereotypes and have honest conversations about issues facing youth and the role of law enforceyouth and the role of law enforcement.

The KAAR Community Involvement Committee is kicking off an inaugural golf tournament to help raise funds for Youth Villages» Backpack Heroes, as well as other community projects in 2018.

Community & Career Involvement: Indoor and Outdoor soccer coach for several years with Triangle Area Youth Soccer Association.

Among the activities that qualify for consideration are involvement in affordable housing issues, improving the quality of education in an area, supporting youth initiatives, and work on any other community - based program.

Among the activities that qualify for consideration are involvement in affordable housing issues, improving the quality of education in an area, supporting initiatives aimed at a community's youth, and work on any other community - based programs.