Sentences with phrase «income youth»

The statistics are stark — low - income youth lose two to three months every summer in reading levels.

, touting its success in helping guide low - income youth from 7th grade through freshman year of college.

A decade - long study of after - school programs for low - income youth found that arts programs attracted higher - risk students than sports and had far greater academic and developmental benefits.

When discussing the impact quality summer learning programs are having on low income youth in California, she said, «The programs that have figured out how to make summer learning work have focused on tapping into the types of environments and activities that kids naturally like to do.»

College Bound AZ empowers low income youth through academic and personal development to achieve educational success.

It seeks to provide low - income youth with career - ready skills through paid apprenticeships coupled with appropriate academic coursework.

The three - year Concurrent Courses initiative, launched in 2008 and funded by the James Irvine Foundation, partnered high schools with colleges to create dual enrollment programs - high school students take college courses and earn college credit - and make them available to low - income youth who struggle academically or who are from minority college populations.

To sum up, the evidence reveals that low - income youths face a compelling situation in Uruguay, worse than that faced by their Latin American peers.

College Bound Arizona empowers low income youth through academic and personal development to achieve educational success.

Along with her experience providing training and technical assistance to professionals, she has provided STD / HIV and pregnancy prevention counseling and testing to low - income youth at a reproductive health clinic.

This work brought hundreds of people to the Capitol to hear directly from low - income youth struggling to afford college and resulted in $ 14 million in restored funds to assist an additional 8,000 students.

Miller, age 22, is one of ten low - income youths employed at the Town Kitchen, an Oakland - based business where entrepreneurship mingles with a powerful social justice mission.

Episode 25: Mission Based Coworking: Digital Nest The Digital Nest provides tech training, job skills and a safe community place to low - income youth ages 12 - 24.

She also runs B.U.I.L.D Staten Island Youth Program which helps low - income youths get a high school diploma and job training.

The youngsters were then taken to a girls» reception center on the other side of the campus, where incoming youths are kept.

Together, she and Kolajo had just begun working on the board of College Visions, a nonprofit in Providence that helps low - income youth attend college.

Less than two out of ten low income youths complete this level compared to eight out of ten from the wealthiest income quintile (Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, 2010).

Just over three - quarters of middle - income youth earned a regular diploma and 8 percent earned an equivalency.

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).

Alexander and research partners Doris Entwisle and Linda Olson were curious to learn more about this devastating effect and consequently launched a series of studies in 1982 which solidified and expanded evidence showing low - income youth suffer significant learning loss, both during the summer and long term.

These problems are reinforced by Robert Putnam's conclusion in his new book, Our Kids, The American Dream in Crisis, that our lower - income youth no longer trust anyone to be there for them.

College Summit is dedicated to transforming the lives of low - income youth by connecting them to college and career.

Outside the firm, Ms. Blitz is on the Advisory Council for the City Scholars Foundation, an organization that trains non-profit executives to lead effective and sustainable organizations which help low - income youth stay in school.

Build UP is a workforce development model that provides low - income youth with career - ready skills through paid apprenticeships coupled with appropriate academic coursework.

The motivation to help others is pronounced in the population MESA serves: primarily low - income youth who are underrepresented in the STEM fields.

For example, it has been suggested that every summer, low - income youth lose up to two to three months in reading achievement while their middle and higher - income peers — who typically have access to books and are encouraged to read — make slight gains in reading achievement over the summer months, widening the already existing achievement gap.

Compared to the region and less developed countries, Uruguayan low - income youths face an alarming situation (Graph 4).

He noted there are a few tweaks to it he would like to see, and he advocated for the expansion of the > GEAR Up program, touting its success in helping guide low - income youth from 7th grade through freshman year of college.

In the 1960s, Yale researcher James Comer began his now famous work on examining ways to improve academic achievement in low income youth.

Mutukisna employs low - income youth to operate the nonprofit.

Sabrina Mutukisna hires low - income youth and trains them to prepare the meals.

The Ballmers have yet to roll out a foundation or a public strategy for their giving, but they've been making some big gifts, most recently kicking in $ 50 million for a new funders collaborative that will channel at least a billion dollars to high - performing nonprofits that serve low - income youth.

This kicked off a week of summer meals media coverage highlighting the need for increased access to summer meals for our nation's low - income youth.

low - income youth and adults are exposed to disproportionately more marketing and advertising for obesity - promoting products that encourage the consumption of unhealthful foods and discourage physical activity.

Over the past thirteen years, MAP has provided jobs and training to over 650 low - income youth and food nutrition based training to over 12,000 residents, school children and policymakers.

They also may help explain why some low - income youth living in high - risk neighborhoods sleep less than higher - income youth.

However, black and Latino youth still represented only one out of six high - scoring, low - income youth — 17 %.

In addition, the Helmsley Charitable Trust has provided the Barton Center with a $ 291,210 grant as part of its 2010 pilot grant initiative to provide camperships targeting low - income youth to attend its summer and day camps.

HGSE Lecturer Michael Nakkula, who runs Project IF and is codirector of the Risk and Prevention program, specializes in studying how environmental and psychosocial factors can influence the lives of low - income youth.

New findings coauthored by Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney, published today in the September / October 2009 issue of Child Development, reveals the quality of early childcare may play a role in boosting reading and math achievement among low - income youth.

The organization also offers nutritional - cooking classes for adults and summer jobs for low - income youth, which start with a weeklong Food and Justice Camp at a rotating venue outside the city.

MLK is a large urban middle school that serves a diverse student body — from the sons and daughters of UC Berkeley professors who've grown up shopping at the local farmers» market to low - income youth who've never taken so much as a single bite of an organically grown fruit or vegetable.

One studio zeroed in on addressing the needs of low - income youth who are living with cerebral palsy.

A study of high school seniors in Boston found that few low - income youth «decide» against college.

These proposals are in contrast to current law, under which WIA includes a formula - funded youth program serving eligible low - income youth, ages 14 - 21, who face barriers to employment.

Thirty of the nation's largest community foundations last week announced the formation of a coalition to help redouble their efforts to address the educational and other needs of low - income youths.

He is not afraid to take risks and speak his mind, and that has caused challenges as well,» said Jay Schenirer, a Sacramento councilmember and former school board member who worked with Raymond in expanding summer programs for low - income youths.