Sentences with phrase «on vulnerable youth»

Dr. Amy Dworsky is a Research Fellow whose research focuses on vulnerable youth populations — including youth aging out of foster care, homeless youth, and foster youth who are pregnant and / or parenting — and the systems in which those youth are involved.

Not exact matches

VICTORIA — B.C. youth and New Democrat health critic Judy Darcy are calling on the B.C. Liberal government to protect the health of vulnerable young people by banning the sale of flavoured tobacco in British Columbia.

Progress on this front has been blighted by the emerging trend known as «county lines», where gangs avoid detection by sending vulnerable youths to towns around the UK to exploit new drug markets.

You may want to rely on the youth, but I suspect that if you do this you will only make vulnerable populations more vulnerable.

In this capacity she provides expert technical guidance on a variety of labor topics, including approaches for assisting vulnerable and at - risk youth and child and forced laborers.

The Director stated that given the experience Osun gathered in its introduction and implementation of the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme and the social welfare for Osun's most vulnerable old people called Agba Osun, the Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government has touched on the very aspects of national life that had contributed to youth restiveness, kidnapping, other crimes and care for the desperately Youth Empowerment Scheme and the social welfare for Osun's most vulnerable old people called Agba Osun, the Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government has touched on the very aspects of national life that had contributed to youth restiveness, kidnapping, other crimes and care for the desperately youth restiveness, kidnapping, other crimes and care for the desperately poor.

The suite of programmes under the NSIP focuses on ensuring a more equitable distribution of resources to vulnerable populations, including children, youth and women.

As a policy it tapped into voter anger at the privatised utilities making abnormal profits, an area on which the Major government was vulnerable, and made the connection to tackling youth unemployment, something to which the Tories were seen as indifferent.

«Enacting well - crafted age restriction laws to maximize compliance through enforcement of penalties on the state level and moving towards a national ban with similar accompanying strong enforcement as proposed by many national and international health organizations are essential to reduce skin cancer risk in the vulnerable youth population,» she adds.

Curiously, the picture painted by the Red Gang's members didn't match the one provided by the interviewed practitioners, who described the clan as a hierarchical organisation driven by a strict code of conduct and set on recruiting vulnerable youths in its ranks.

«We have to continue to focus on the fact that youth are still developing and therefore they are a vulnerable population; they are prone to experimenting and engaging in risk taking behaviors,» Dube said.

While the organization is currently focused on the impact of marijuana legalization on children and families, Youth Forward intends to address other issues affecting vulnerable youth as the organization gYouth Forward intends to address other issues affecting vulnerable youth as the organization gyouth as the organization grows.

Titled A, this focuses on Autumn, a vulnerable teenager in rural Pennsylvania hops a greyhound bus to NYC on a transformative journey to reclaim her stolen youth.

Here she's genially, even goofily, vulnerable as a woman faintly aware that she has outgrown the hippy idealism of her youth, but hasn't settled on a suitable persona with which to replace it.

The effects of this graduation crisis fall disproportionately on the nation's most vulnerable youths and communities.

We plan to use this opportunity to push forward the national and global dialogue on how best to train multidisciplinary professionals for the complex challenges they face in working with the most vulnerable children and youth in our schools and communities.

IEL's Coalition for Community Schools recently sat down with Menlo Park Elementary School Principal Kellie Burkhardt and Community School Coordinator Steven Joinson to take a deeper look at how they are re-writing the script on achievement levels and increasing opportunities for our most vulnerable youth.

Unlike previous generations, emotionally vulnerable youth — with poorly developed coping skills — can not avoid bullies after school and on weekends.

Research shows that the reliance on punitive school discipline like suspensions, expulsions, and school arrests — «school pushout» — deprives students of learning time and takes the greatest toll on nonwhite students, students with disabilities, LGBT youth and other vulnerable student groups.

This dual status can make these youth more vulnerable to verbal and physical abuse at school than either giftedness or gender / sexual minority status would on its own (Manzella, 2012).

«We're incredibly impressed by their dedication and boots - on - the - ground work ethic to help some of our most vulnerable youth find a better way in the world and are proud to support their continued efforts.»

The uncanny foam - spewing waste figures and the vulnerable youths perched on the paralyzed relics of our time seem to offer a bleak vision of humanity in some not too distant future.

«My candid opinion is that the youth and the women in the grassroot should be educated a lot more on adaptation and mitigation of climate change because they are more vulnerable.»

Many of our programs focus on highly vulnerable populations, including youth, immigrants experiencing violence, veterans, and the reentry population.

The RCMP direction on vulnerable sector checks specifies that these checks (and checks involving records protected by the Youth Criminal Justice Act) must not be provided through commercial services providers.

The role of the Centre is to advocate on behalf of vulnerable children and youth in BC.

Finally, funding allows The Project to participate in targeted outreach and trainings to college and university students, faculty, campus law enforcement, and others on the legal rights of victims of sexual assault, leveraging its experience with youth and education law to benefit that especially vulnerable population.»

Implement as soon as possible an evidence - informed public education campaign, targeted at the general population but with an emphasis on youth, parents and vulnerable populations

Metropolitan Youth Health focuses on clinical health services to the most vulnerable young people in our community.

While the organization is currently focused on the impact of marijuana legalization on children and families, Youth Forward intends to address other issues affecting vulnerable youth as the organization gYouth Forward intends to address other issues affecting vulnerable youth as the organization gyouth as the organization grows.

Building on its base and expertise in peer - to - peer approaches to strengthening families, the new mission is, «Be Strong Families promotes the empowered engagement of vulnerable parents, youth, children, and extended family members in ways that nurture the spirit of the family and promote well - being, healing and peace across the globe.»

Colleen Schlecht is a Researcher at Chapin Hall, where she focuses on evaluating programs to support vulnerable youth populations, including disconnected youth, youth transitioning to adulthood, and at - risk young children.

Youths with poorer glycemic control are likely to experience more frequent out - of - range blood glucose values on their meters, leaving them vulnerable to parental blame and shame and their own distress and disappointment.

Building on the Foundation's long - standing interest in adolescent children, we work to ensure that enriching after - school programming is available and accessible to middle school students, particularly vulnerable youth in under - resourced communities.