Sentences with phrase «of youth outcomes»

Subsequent to the publication of these important studies, several child development researchers have attempted to improve the domain - specific measurement of parental monitoring and parental knowledge as well as to clarify whether parental knowledge of youth activities is a predictor of youth outcomes.

SFP 12 - 16 years had the second largest results; however, for SFP 10 - 14 years had the largest effect sizes for two of the youth outcomes — Social Skills and Competencies and reductions in Criminality.

The focus of the leading indicator system is on quality implementation that has potential to lead to positive youth outcomes, rather than just focusing on assessing the achievement of youth outcomes after the program year is completed.

Like assessments of youth outcomes, the instruments used to assess program quality need to be as free from bias as possible.

Not exact matches

New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

«While winning and losing are a natural outcome of the sports experience, fun level and skill development should be the focus of youth sports,» says Gaines.

Detailing different types of youth sports - related injuries, along with contributing medical therapies with function - related outcomes;

The anger and indignation being felt across the world at terrible, fraudulent outcome of 2012 elections in Ghana came alive when hundreds of Ghanaians including members of the Coalition of Ghanaians against Electoral Fraud (COGEF), the Movement for Genuine Democracy (MGD), The Progressive Youth for Change and Transparency (PYCT) and The Stop tribalism in Ghana group demonstrated outside the Ghana High Commission offices in Highgate, North London.

Officials would «begin the preparatory steps for implementing this recommendation», a spokesman said, which would «of course, be subject to the outcome of appropriate consultation, especially with young people's organisations including the Scottish youth parliament».

Failing to do so is not an option, as it would shamefully leave New York as one of only two states where 16 year olds are charged as adults and would perpetuate bad outcomes with increased likelihood of youth re-offending and decreased public safety.

The Erie County Department of Social Services will convene a Permanency Summit on Tuesday, April 25 2017 in Buffalo to bring together local experts to brainstorm and plan ways to improve outcomes for youth in foster care.

The H&HS Cabinet is comprised of representatives from the County's health and human services related departments, including Health (including the Division of Veterans Services), Mental Hygiene, Community & Family Services (including the Division of Youth Services), Probation & Community Corrections and the Office for the Aging, working together to coordinate service delivery to provide better outcomes for families.

One of the protesters, Mr. Oluwatuyi Adekanmbi, said youths across the state were protesting the decision of INEC to go on with the election without waiting for the outcome of the suit before the Appeal court.

Ernesto Yeboah, a youth leader of the Convention People's Party (CPP), who initiated the petition that compelled the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate President Mahama's receipt of the Ford gift from a Burkinabe contractor, says the outcome of the probe clearly shows that the President can not be trusted to protect the sanctity of the country's laws and...

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

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.

By offering a continuum of educational and social services, mental health care and counseling in one location, the Center for Safe and Healthy Youth aims to improve outcomes for yYouth aims to improve outcomes for youthyouth.

«When it comes to understanding how well our nation is helping youth affected by autism, our situation is like driving a car through the fog with no dashboard,» said Paul Shattuck, PhD, leader of the Life Course Outcomes Research Program and an associate professor at Drexel.

The «National Autism Indicators Report: Transition into Young Adulthood» is a comprehensive report that presents new findings about a wide range of experiences and outcomes of youth on the autism spectrum between high school and their early 20s, including new safety and risk indicators for young adults with autism.

The researchers urge the education community to consider the role of afterschool classrooms and instructors in promoting supportive interactions and advancing academic outcomes for at - risk youth during this important transition to adolescence.

In their study, Lundgren and Adams sought understanding of the processes by which youth are socialized into gender norms and how these gender norms are associated with violence and other negative health outcomes.

Given the potential of afterschool programs to support youth in urban, low - income communities, the researchers examined the role that the afterschool classroom environment plays in terms of academic outcomes for youth with and without social and behavioral difficulties.

In both the fall and spring, the researchers collected three types of academic outcome measures from youth and staff, including reading skills, youth perceptions of their academic abilities, and academic engagement.

The UChicago team's NBER study concludes, «The impact of the pilot intervention reported in this paper are large enough to raise the question of whether the field has given up prematurely on the possibility of improving academic outcomes for disadvantaged youth.»

October 6th - 8th (Saturday — Monday) FOUNDATIONS: $ 650 An introduction to Bent On Learning's history, curriculum, and impact on youth development outcomes, discussions on the role of yoga teachers in schools, and instruction on how kids learn and how to set them up for success.

While there remains a large section of daters who still look for the same outcome, the premise of dating is no longer confined to the youth.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress should be broadened to gauge how American youths are faring on a range of academic, social, health, and cultural indicators, contends a report that calls for new measures of educational outcomes and equity.

The National Center of Education and the Economy, through its Center on International Education Benchmarking, is working to build a community of researchers interested in investigating how a small set of countries and states have managed to build and sustain educational systems that manage routinely to produce higher and more equitable outcomes for children and youth.

Regardless of the outcome of the case, she adds, «we're showing that youth can take action.»

Albert uses the Longitudinal Study of American Youth and confirms that student non-response on surveys is predictive of later life outcomes.

Distinct from his school department (which, like more than 90 percent of Rhode Island's school districts, is governed by an elected school committee), OCYL's mission was to extend learning time for as many Cumberland children and youth as possible while raising the community's expectations regarding educational outcomes.

How do the social contexts of family, neighborhood, and school in the early years relate to life outcomes for urban youth?

As part of an effort last month to promote awareness of children's mental - health problems, the agency examined the outcomes of youths ages 14 to...

By All Means consortium cities will implement a variety of best practices for working across municipal agencies and community based organizations in order to deliver outcomes that are measurably better at serving all children and youth.

Dozens of studies of afterschool programs repeatedly underscore the powerful impact of supporting a range of positive learning outcomes, including academic achievement, by affording children and youth opportunities to practice new skills through hands - on, experiential learning in project - based after school programs.

The verdict: a decade of research and evaluation studies confirms that children and youth who participate in afterschool programs can reap a host of positive benefits in a number of interrelated outcome areas — academic, social - emotional, prevention, and health and wellness.

Deming studies the economics of early childhood and K — 12 education and the effects of education policy on long - term outcomes for disadvantaged urban youth.

Ironically, the expansion of student legal rights, rather than enhancing youth outcomes, has increased the extent to which schools have relied on authoritarian measures, decreased the moral authority of educators, and diminished the capacity of schools to socialize young people effectively.

Current Research Selman's research builds upon the developmental and cultural antecedents of our human capacity to form and maintain positive social relationships, and the application of these capacities to the prevention of negative psychological, social, and health outcomes for youth.

The Risk and Prevention Program has been renamed Prevention Science and Practice (PSP) / Counseling C.A.S.. Although the curriculum and educational experience of students will not change, the new name, says program director Mandy Savitz - Romer, better reflects the integrated nature of the program and its mission to prepare graduates to improve the social, emotional, and academic outcomes of children and youth.

Follow - up outcomes (6 months to 18 years after students participated in SEL programs) demonstrate SEL's enhancement of positive youth development, including positive increases in SEL skills, attitudes, positive social behavior, and academic performance while finding decreases in conduct problems, emotional distress, and drug use.

We learned about strategies, about people, and about organizations that are trying to leverage the use of digital technology to improve learning outcomes for youth — particularly those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Increasingly, schools are prioritising wellbeing as a response to the prevalence of mental illness in youth and the link between wellbeing and positive learning outcomes.

Gonzales is the author of the 2015 book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, which explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with less educated peers, and the failures of our country's current system to provide for their integration and success.

To improve the educational outcomes of America's 6.5 million children and youth with disabilities, the U.S. Department of Education today announced a major shift in the way it oversees the effectiveness of states» special education programs.

Interested in the academic outcomes and school experiences of bilingual and bicultural youth, particularly their literacy development.

We assessed a longitudinal model of cultural predictors and educational outcomes of social justice orientation in a national sample of Latina / o youths.

This work is grounded in a coherent rationale and designates a series of indicators that demonstrate system - level, setting - level and individual - level practices to promote smooth transitions to early grades and growth across youth development outcomes for all children.

To what extent does the Career Academy approach change educational, employment, and youth development outcomes for students at greater or lesser risk of school failure?

Separately, BLOCS works to collect Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) data from approximately 52 of these 75 sites using the Survey of Academic and Youth Outcomes (SAYO - Y).