Sentences with phrase «growing youth health»

When part of an appropriately designed exercise and nutrition program, resistance training can help battle two of the growing youth health epidemics: obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Not exact matches

A growing coalition of conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school - based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.

On the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing contact or collision sports for a long period of time likely has, at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practices.

Major changes are needed to encourage the health of the nation's youth and to reverse the growing trends of obesity, early - onset diabetes, and hypertension, among other chronic diseases, in children and teens.

With youth sports concussion safety laws in place in all 50 states, increased public awareness about concussions, and growing concernabout the long - term effect of repetitive head impacts, the demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but for health care professionals as well is at an all - time high, and promises to go even higher in the coming years.

In a letter to Apple, Jana Partners LLC, and the California State Teachers» Retirement System (also known as CalSTRS)-- they control about $ 2 billion of Apple shares — call youth phone addiction a growing public health crisis and urge Apple to make it easier for parents to control their children's screen time and to fund studies that would reveal the true consequences of smartphone use on mental health.

Acting as your body's foreman, HGH instructs your skeletal bone and muscle to grow larger and stronger while it speeds the conversion of excess fats into energy.In other words, it's responsible for youth, vitality, energy and all of the health benefits we associate with youth.

Parents and non-parents alike have reason to be worried about children's health, due to the youth obesity epidemic, the alarming rise of type 2 diabetes and the growing number of children (estimated at close to 6 million) labeled as having ADD or ADHD and placed on prescription drugs.

PAI offers a suite of workshops supporting school leaders and their communities, including Teacher Wellbeing, Principal Wellbeing, Youth Mental Health First Aid, Graduate and Grow (mentoring and supporting early - career teachers), Leading Change (change management in schools), and more.

Resilience is part of The Compass Advantage ™ (a model designed for engaging families, schools, and communities in the principles of positive youth development) because the capacity to rebuild and grow from adversity is a key factor in achieving optimal mental and physical health.

The Case for School - Based Integration of Services: Changing the Ways Students, Families and Communities Engage with Their Schools Public / Private Ventures, 2009 A good education is key to helping young people grow into healthy, productive adults, but for disadvantaged, low - income youth and their families, poor health often interferes with low - income educations.

A study by the National Center for Education Statistics in the mid-1980s indicated growing challenges to educating urban youths who increasingly have problems such as poverty, limited English proficiency, family instability and poor health.

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Liz conceived of SexEd armed with 10 + years working with artists / art collectives and youth enrolled in the NYC public school system, and a growing sadness over the huge gap between the sexual health education she received growing up in the public schools of NJ in the 80s, and the current curriculum.

There is reason for growing optimism now regarding mental health services for children, youth, and families in Ontario.

The Australian government is constantly under pressure from consumer groups, the mental health sector and the media, and are actively looking for new ways to deal effectively with the growing burden of youth mental health, but also new ways to improve wellbeing.

Since there are often emotional and behavioral issues, counseling or mental health services are readily available for the youth to grow and heal.

Children and youth in Rancho Cucamonga face a number of mental health - related issues as they grow into adulthood.

Comprehensive theoretical models of adolescent problem behavior propose risk and promotive factors at multiple levels of the social environment, including the family, peer, school, and neighborhood contexts.1 — 3 In addition, growing attention is focused on promoting positive youth development, encouraging health - promoting behavior, and investing in resources for youth.4 — 7 Thus, a holistic and comprehensive approach to optimizing adolescent development requires an understanding of factors related to both reducing problem behavior and increasing positive, competent youth behavior.

Adolescence is a time of profound biological and social transition during which new behaviours are developed that can either benefit the health and social adaptation of youth or, alternatively, undermine adjustment in adulthood.1 Adolescents have to cope with increasing independence and the growing importance of social relationships, while developing and exercising self - control.

Announcement: The teenagers of Generation Z, including youth in Missouri, excelled in education and health indicators despite growing up in the midst of the economic downturn, according to the 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

(Source: «Growing Up Resilient: Ways to Build Resilience in Children and Youth,» Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 2007)

Yet there is growing awareness that many subgroups of youth experience levels of chronic stress that are so great that youths» abilities to succeed academically are actually undermined, mental health functioning is compromised, and rates of risk behavior escalate (Hardy, 2003; Suldo et al., 2008; Conner et al., 2009).

Although there is a growing interest in research concerning disparities in diabetes outcomes due to access to quality health care (Valenzuela, La Greca, Hsin, Taylor, & Delamater, 2011), it is importance to investigate behavioral influences, such as parenting, as a potential target for interventions to improve outcomes in youth with T1D (Wysocki et al., 1999; 2008).

Given the critical importance of treatment adherence to the long - term survival of individuals with CF, and given the characteristic decrease in treatment adherence observed across the adolescent period (Quittner et al., 2000; Ricker et al., 1998), the current findings offer promising avenues for future research on both the benefits and risks of peer relationships for youth with CF. Furthermore, health - related quality of life increasingly has been recognized as a critical element of patient and family - reported outcomes among youth with chronic illness (Quittner et al., 2008), and the current findings continue to build on this growing body of literature for youth with CF.