Sentences with phrase «protect young people in their community»

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Borough President Gale Brewer has pledged to fund four community - based initiatives to improve relations between the police and young people in the communities they serve and protect in Manhattan.

«Unite members will be especially heartened to hear that Jeremy believes in an active role for government — in protecting jobs, in using investment to build the homes families and young people urgently need and to keep our communities strong.»

The five pledges are: secure the recovery; raise family living standards; build a hi - tech economy; protect frontline investment in policing, schools, childcare and the NHS — with a new guarantee of cancer test results within a week; and strengthen fairness in communities through controlled immigration, guarantees of education, apprenticeships and jobs for young people and a crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

The winners in three different age groups (6 - 7 years, 8 - 9 years and 10 - 12 years) will receive the title of ultimate Eco-Action Kid and, according to the press release, «join a community of young people investing their time and energy to protect the earth,» which sounds a lot like «and a handshake» to me But each winner will also receive $ 1,000 to donate to the environmental charity of their choice and a $ 1,000 cash award.

So in balancing the need to protect the community against a respondent's right to their home and the implications for an individual — often a young person — who is sought to be made the subject of an ASBO, where a lot of the evidence is going to be hearsay, how should courts address this and, more significantly, how should practitioners present that evidence?

Planned Parenthood is proud to provide young people with honest, factual health and relationship information — in classrooms, community centers, and online — to help protect their health and reduce our nation's alarmingly high rates of unintended teen pregnancies and STDs.

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.

Anglicare Victoria exists to protect the vulnerable Victorians in our community — a child suffering from abuse, a homeless young person, a woman escaping domestic violence, an impoverished couple unable to feed their family — people who desperately need help.