Sentences with phrase «of all homeless youth in»

Governor Cuomo's first state budget in 2011 cut state aid for homeless youth shelters, including those that serve LGBT youth, who account for about 40 % of all homeless youth in New York City.

Could a poem on the circumstances of deprived children or a documentary movie on the condition of homeless youths in New Orleans qualify as research in support of one or another education program?

Students can be architects and use math skills to create effective bridges, and they can be poets to tell the stories of homeless youth in the community.

Superheroes and Vigilantes Unite to Raise Money for Thousands of Homeless Youth in Southern Nevada at the 9th Annual Homeless Youth in the Alley Bowling Tournaments

The Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development plays an important role in overseeing the safety of homeless youth in Tempe.

But Portland has another, less desirable distinction: It has one of the largest populations of homeless youth in the nation, according to the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Not exact matches

The singer is apparently participating in the initiative with a visit to a center for homeless LGBT youth, a candid discussion of her own struggles with PTSD, and (this is the fun part) a hand - picked playlist of positivity - boosting tunes.

Here in the U.S., homeless and suicide rates among LGBT youth remain shockingly high, in part because conservative Christian leaders like John McArthur instruct parents of gay children to «hand them over to Satan» and refuse to associate with them.

The idea of this series of «Letters To Dad» is that I write about twenty stories about homeless and runaway youth / teens in the form of letters to their dads, letters that briefly tell their stories, stories from a variety of kids who have a variety of reasons for being homeless.

Those ministries range from helping the homeless, providing space for ministry classes, providing classes to people in the midst of job transition, place for youth to gather in a safe and supervised environment, the region's largest multi-week summer program for 1000 + children, to name just a few.

Although statistics vary, and probably no one knows the exact number of runaway and homeless youth in the USA who are living in the streets, alleys, canyons, beaches, parks, under bridges and any other place they can find, almost everyone agrees there are at least one million homeless and runaway kids in our country.

She also plays an active part in the Trevor Project and has worked with the L.A Gay & Lesbian Center concerning homeless LGBT youth, has conducted fundraising for Susan G. Komen in honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness month and recently led this year's 30th annual Aids Walk Los Angeles, cutting the starting ribbon for over 25,000 walkers.

Tom Manning, the vice president of a New York City - based nonprofit that serves homeless youth, says his organization, Covenant House, spends about 33 cents per diaper buying in bulk.

«One of the most gruesome things we hear at the Ali Forney Center is our young people who have been recently diagnosed in their desperation to get shelter and housing will forsake taking the medication because they want to be eligible for the current HASA guidelines,» said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the group, which helps homeless LGBT youth.

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The plan includes an expansion of the state's Urban Youth Jobs Program, a large increase in affordable housing and homeless services funding, and a student loan program that would supplement the federal Pay As You Earn income - based loan repayment program.

A group of mainline conference Democrats and members of the Independent Democratic Conference in the state Senate signed on to an effort led by Sen. Brad Hoylman to include more funding in the state budget for homeless runaway youth shelters.

Placement opportunities are available to a number of Northumbria's undergraduate Social Sciences students in challenging environments such as prisons, youth offending teams, homeless charities and parliamentary offices.

The minimum wage increase was just one of 10 proposals that the governor unveiled in advance of his State of the State address in Albany on Wednesday, including expansions in job programs for urban youth, additional funding for homeless services and low - income housing, and assistance for food programs.

«I'm incredibly grateful to Miley Cyrus for her support of our campaign to restore funding for homeless youth shelters in our state budget,» Hoylman said in a statement.

After a stint in the Marines, Radford, 45, became an activist and organizer on a number of fronts, including president of the student government at Erie Community College, a trainer with the Martin Luther King Institute for Nonviolence, and head of a youth detention center for at - risk kids and a homeless shelter for young women.

Watching de Blasio and Quinn, in particular, demonstrate their detailed knowledge about homeless LGBT youth and preventing sero - conversion among gay men proved that our community's concerns are at the top of the agenda in the Democratic mayoral primary contest.

Today's announcement was made during the City's first «Homelessness Among LGBTQ Persons of Color Awareness Breakfast,» sponsored by the Department of Homeless Services, Department of Youth & Community Development held at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

For the 20 years that I have been working with homeless youth in NYC, it has always been accepted as a given by city government that many homeless youth must sleep on the streets because of an inadequate youth shelter supply to meet the need.

«Homeless LGBT youth, most of whom have been cast out of their homes, have faced the worst kind of cruelty and rejection», said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the Ali Forney Center, in a statement.

In what was a campaign appearance, the speaker also vowed to fund shelter beds for homeless youth currently on waiting listings at the handful of facilities that provide appropriate space.

In an emailed statement, Carl Siciliano, the founder of the Ali Forney Center, which serves homeless LGBT youth, said, «I have been in discussions with Quinn's office about this, and am thrilleIn an emailed statement, Carl Siciliano, the founder of the Ali Forney Center, which serves homeless LGBT youth, said, «I have been in discussions with Quinn's office about this, and am thrillein discussions with Quinn's office about this, and am thrilled.

Every year, up to two million youth in the U.S. will experience homelessness, and estimates suggest between 39 and 70 percent of homeless youth abuse drugs or alcohol.

Survey data gathered voluntarily from homeless youth in Los Angeles, as well as behavioral theories and observations of previous interventions, were used to build a computational model of the interventions.

Scientists have chronicled the impact of negative expectations in settings where they occur naturally, such as classrooms that «track» students from early youth and in society's treatment of stigmatized groups such as racial minorities, the poor, the elderly, the homeless, convicts and children with learning disabilities.

During her clinical years at NCNM, Dr. Noel interned at Outside In, a clinic that focuses on the health of at risk youth and homeless teens.

A recent study in 2014 showed that foster youths who emancipate from the system faced the following: 20 % will become homeless, 71 % will become pregnant, and 25 % will experience PTSD (twice the amount of US war veterans).

SSS: That third Decline film, released in 1998, seems in some respects more of a spiritual sequel to the devastating documentary Streetwise (also criminally underseen) about homeless youth in Seattle in 1980.

This special report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most vulnerable students in the nation's schools, including youths in juvenile detention facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.

Some reflected a student's experience with a specific organization, such as My Brother's Keeper, an organization providing food and clothing for the homeless; Magic Me, a volunteer group in which the teenagers worked with elderly neighbors; and the Canton Police Athletic League, a system of youth recreation centers.

He claims that the «youth and inexperience» of the college students operating the shelter often combine to create a teacher - student dynamic that empowers guests in a way older professional social service workers can not, ultimately making a persuasive case for the replication of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter's student - run model in other major cities across the United States.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

15, along with fellow Los Angeles teacher Erin Whalen, will make a dream a reality when they launch RISE High — an innovative high school aimed at serving the unique needs of homeless and foster youth in Los Angeles.

to the extent feasible and consistent with the requirements of paragraphs (2) and (4) of this subdivision, keep a homeless child or youth in the school of origin except when doing so is contrary to the wishes of the child's or youth's parent or guardian; and

Where the homeless child is located in a temporary housing facility operated or approved by a local social services district or a residential facility for runaway and homeless youth, the director of the facility or a person designated by the social services districts, shall, within two business days of entry into such facilities, assist the designator to ensure that the form is properly completed and assist the child, where necessary, to enroll in the designated school district.

School district of current location means the public school district within the State of New York in which the hotel, motel, shelter or other temporary housing arrangement of a homeless child, or the residential program for runaway and homeless youth, is located, which is different from the school district of origin.

Her research looks at the embodied practices of resistance in homeless LGBT youth communities, violence and youth, problems in testimonio methods, and the school - to - prison pipeline.

Determinations regarding whether a child is entitled to attend a district's schools as a homeless child or youth must be made in accordance with subdivision (x) of this section.

Where a parent or person in parental relation or a child who is neither placed in a temporary housing facility by the local department of social services nor housed in a residential program for runaway homeless youth established pursuant to article 19 - H of the Executive Law, designates the school district of current location, the school district shall forward to the department a completed designation form and a statement of the basis for its determination that the child is a homeless child entitled to attend the schools of the district.

Blumenfeld - Jones, who is taken by a film on homeless youths, Street Rat, writes, «I am obliged to report that I have, up to this point in the relatively short history of the genre, not been privy to a completely unblemished work of arts - based research, one sufficiently powerful, by itself, to redirect the educational conversation....»

Whenever the school district of current location is designated, the child shall be entitled to attend the school that is zoned for his or her temporary location or any school that nonhomeless students who live in the same attendance zone in which the homeless child or youth is temporarily residing are entitled to attend.

establish procedures, in accordance with 42 U.S.C. section 11432 (g)(3)(E), for the prompt resolution of disputes regarding school selection or enrollment of a homeless child or youth (Public Law 107 - 110, title X, section 1032, 115 STAT.

A state plan shall describe how the state will assist LEAs in: (1) providing early childhood education programs, (2) improving school conditions for learning and meeting the needs of students, and (3) serving homeless children and youths.

Seema is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory and serves on boards for the Minnesota chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education and Avenues for Homeless Youth, a shelter in Minneapolis.