Sentences with phrase «of youth advocates»

Their work taps into a long legacy of youth advocates selflessly serving as catalysts for change.

The DC Alliance of Youth Advocates and the Institute for Educational Leadership's Center for Workforce Development jointly lead the Academy.

Each year, hundreds of youth advocates, educators, policymakers, business leaders, young people and representatives of the GradNation Communities Network come together at the Building a GradNation Summit to share progress, discover what's working, and inspire even greater action.

In July, 14 youth service professionals graduated from the D.C. Youth Workforce Leaders Academy (YWLA), a 10 - month professional development program co-led by IEL and the DC Alliance of Youth Advocates.

IEL and the DC Alliance of Youth Advocates seek applicants for the DC Youth Workforce Leaders Academy, a free 10 - month professional learning opportunity for youth workforce development professionals.

A contributor to the Romance section of Gale's What Do I Read Next, co-author of Voice of Youth Advocate's annual «Clueless: Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal» column, a reviewer for Library Journal, and co-author of The Mystery Readers» Advisory: The Librarian's Clues to Murder and Mayhem (2001), Charles was named 2002 Librarian of the Year by the Romance Writers of America and names good chocolate and good books as two of the world's great pleasures.

Seeking the role of a youth advocate with government or non-government organization which gives me a platform on giving my opinion on various causes related to the youth of our society and reach out to as many young people as possible

Not exact matches

They help thousands of homeless and youth victims of trafficking make the challenging transition to self - sufficiency, protecting and advocating for one of the most vulnerable populations.

Canada, an advocate of youth empowerment and gender equality, is in a good position to assist young and female Vietnamese entrepreneurs in gaining skills and knowledge for capacity building and improving the competitiveness of their enterprises via innovation and technology.

Young Professionals unite for one night as the next generation of advocates, raising funds and awareness for homeless youth, not much younger than they are.

As an advocate for foster youth, I applaud Mayor Tubbs» vision to strengthen our community by offering an unconditional gift of $ 500.00 per month to some of the most deserving individuals and families in our community.

He is also a passionate advocate for youth, promoting the benefits of work - integrated learning and supporting the development of RBC Future Launch, a 10 - year, $ 500 million commitment to help young people build the skills and capabilities required to succeed in a changing world.

We're also a leading advocate for kids facing homelessness, defending the rights of young people at a local, state, national, and international level and working to affect the issues that drive youth homelessness.

Advocating for the end of the modern slave trade, she hopes to open a small intentional community retreat for exploited youth in Canada.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

It is with shocking and provocative passion of youth, not the impotent rage of old age, that Luther advocated the only appropriate retort to the Devil's dung: «You go eat it!»

, in which they advocate for the removal of youth football programs from public schools.

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed at the 9th Annual Distinguished Speaker Luncheon in support of Advocates for Children and Youth.

One of the most active athletic trainers» association at the state level is in New Jersey, which was the first state to require by law that coaches receive safety training, is among the 40 states that have enacted strong youth concussion safety laws, and has been a leader in advocating for academic accommodations for concussed student - athletes.

This truly was no place for a youth sport health and safety advocate like me to be standing (although not for long; after standing on the sidelines for 15 minutes, I retreated to the safety and comfort of an air conditioned car and hotel lobby).

Michelle Hickman is a wife, mother of 4, small - business owner, youth pastor, and breastfeeding advocate.

Break the silence, says youth athlete Health and Safety advocate Brooke de Lench, founding Executive Director of MomsTeam Institute.

Test scores go up, truancy goes down and attendance goes up,» says Joshua Simonds, the former executive director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, who devotes himself to advocating for arts in the schools as part of a well - rounded education.

It is time that we recognize the harm caused by the mercy rule, and advocate for change by teaching athletes to learn from defeat rather than hide from it, to understand that losing is neither shameful nor embarrassing, to embrace competition of all levels, and to value the positive life lessons gained through all of youth sports.

If you ever had doubts about the youth of America, solidarity shown by teens advocating for gun control during #MarchforOurLives and #NationalSchoolWalkout events across our nation served as a good reminder that this is our future.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

It details Engh's amazing rise from Depression - era poverty on the shores of Eastern Maryland to confront a series of life - changing events that ultimately led him to creating the National Alliance for Youth Sports, which has been the nation's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children for more than 30 years.

The Academy is one of many programs provided by the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS), America's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children.

The National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute will be the recognized leader and advocate for advancing and disseminating the latest research and evidence - based education, recommendations and policy to enhance the experience, development, health and safety of our youth in spYouth Sports Health & Safety Institute will be the recognized leader and advocate for advancing and disseminating the latest research and evidence - based education, recommendations and policy to enhance the experience, development, health and safety of our youth in spyouth in sports.

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The organization supports a network of youth mentoring programs run by and for those with learning differences, and organizes advocates to support the full inclusion of people with learning disabilities and ADHD in all aspects of society.

Notably, unlike Virginia's law, the policy expressly empowers game officials to remove athletes from play if they are suspected of having suffered a concussion (a power that I have been advocating for many years game officials be given, and a power conferred on game officials by laws at the state level in only Arizona, Iowa, and Ohio), and requires that coaches who disregard the safety and well being of a youth sports participant as it related to concussions be subject to indefinite suspension (only Pennsylvania and Connecticut have laws which penalize coaches for violating their statutes)

Until those questions are answered through rigorous research, pediatricians should advance primum non nocere, first do no harm, by advocating for the end of youth football.

Attendees should anticipate a full day of education provided by health care experts and youth sports safety advocates focused on the hidden risks of youth sports and what you can do to mitigate them within your sphere of influence.

In the late 1980s, Margaret Brodkin of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth led a campaign that established the Children's Fund to ensure permanent funding for vital services for kids, and the city's Department of Children Youth and their Families was created, to make sure that children's issues were handled by a department focused solely on their unique needs.

And, learn how you can join our network of foster youth & alumni to become a foster youth champion and advocate!

One way to do this is to advocate for the children and youth who have been emaciated from or «aged out» of (reached the age of 18 and are no longer able to receive assistance from their state of foster families) of foster care by:

Over the past two years, when the economy was totally stagnant, and when our economy has needed a quick and fast - acting shot in the arm, we have advocated a temporary VAT cut — alongside infrastructure spending, action on youth unemployment and targeted tax measures for business as part of our five point plan for growth.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Stepping up the effort to press the Cuomo administration to provide more funding to shelter homeless youth, State Senator Brad Hoylman, an out gay Manhattan Democrat, appeared with fellow elected officials and advocates outside of City Hall on February 12 to make the case.

OUR MISSION: The Association of New York State Youth Bureaus (ANYSYB) is a unified statewide resource and support system that professionally develops and advocates for local Youth Bureaus.

We want to make all of this evidence accessible to anyone with an interest in alcohol - politicians, reporters, health professionals, students, youth workers and others - and to advocate for effective responses that will reduce the toll of alcohol in society.

At 10:30 a.m., a coalition of organizations, educators, and advocates hold a press conference to encourage the inclusion of $ 4.5 million in the budget sustain and expand the Foster Youth College Success Initiative, LCA Press Room (130), LOB, 198 State St., Albany.

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As advocates for children's rights, we have been working with other concerned charities, including the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, to ensure MPs understand the reality of what is being proposed.

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On Wednesday morning, on the day before the Mayor was to unveil his budget, advocates that included representatives from Alianza Dominicana, Children's Aid Society, the Children Arts and Sciences Workshop, ACDP, Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI), Community League of the Heights (C.L.O.T.H.), the Police Athletic League (P.A.L.), and representatives from local New York City Councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares and Herman D. Farrell, among others, gathered in an early morning meeting to brain - storm about strategies to ward off the cuts.

Mr Gormey advocated proper planning and deliberate efforts to train the youth in employable skills, in order to turn the fortunes of the country in the right direction.

At 9:30 a.m., NYC Council members Stephen Levin, Donovan Richards, Jr., Rafael Salamanca Jr., Daniel Dromm, Laurie Cumbo, Barry Grodenchik and Mathieu Eugene, along with foster youth, advocates, and agencies hold press conference to call for the passage of a legislative package that would strengthen the foster care system for New York City children, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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