Sentences with phrase «reduce youth violence»

He is the Assistant Pastor at Shiloh Temple International Ministries and has worked with city officials to reduce youth violence in North Minneapolis.

Without attributing cause - and - effect, the new study adds to previous research suggesting that modifying specific outdoor features with low - cost improvements may foster community interaction and potentially reduce youth violence in cities.

Lansing also added «The new Oneida County Youth Development and Violence Prevention Coalition will be a partnership of the area's community based organizations, school district representatives, government agency staff and law enforcement officials who will be coming together to develop the new programs, strategies and tactics necessary to address the issues raised in the new assessment and continue the progress made in our county in reducing youth violence and increasing opportunities for positive youth development.

Anne Lansing, Executive Director of Utica Safe Schools and President of the Oneida County Youth Services Council said «The updated assessment that is being provided today recognizes the progress made in reducing youth violence and enhancing youth development.

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Education Code 32270 (2003) establishes a statewide school safety cadre to facilitate interagency coordination and collaboration among school districts, youth - serving agencies, community - based organizations, and law enforcement agencies to improve school attendance, encourage good citizenship, and reduce school violence, crimes, gang membership and violence, truancy, bullying, and discrimination and harassment.

Last year, the de Blasio administration joined the City Council to disburse $ 12.7 million between community organizations and social services tasked with reducing gun violence and offering supportive programs for local youth.

Screening and intervention among youth with a history of dating violence can be critical to reducing future adult intimate partner violence.»

Helena, MT About Blog Youth Connections works with the Helena Community to reduce substance use, violence and increase social / emotional and mental health supports for yYouth Connections works with the Helena Community to reduce substance use, violence and increase social / emotional and mental health supports for youthyouth.

Following the violent murder of Lloyd Fouracre in 2005, the charity was formed to promote classroom education as a means of reducing and preventing youth violence.

A randomized experiment to evaluate the real - world effectiveness of Roots of Empathy (ROE) in preventing violence (reducing aggression and increasing prosocial behavior) in children and youth, immediately after the program and up to three years afterwards.

Researchers concluded that they found «compelling evidence» that the program «reduces aggression and violence in children and youth and enhances their classroom learning.

Researchers concluded that there was «compelling evidence that [the RCCP] reduces aggression and violence in children and youth and enhances their classroom learning.»

At Match Education, she supported in - district high school math tutoring programs, including a gold - standard study by the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab on the efficacy of 2:1 tutoring in improving outcomes and reducing violence in at - risk youth.

Carroll also founded A Better LA and A Better Seattle, initiatives that support community - based solutions to reduce youth and gang violence.

Counseling services have proven effective at preventing youth suicide, and as a part of a comprehensive physical and mental health program, counseling has been shown to reduce violence in schools and in communities.

It targeted three spheres: reducing violence from political parties and elections, reducing violence by gangs, youth, and the state in marginalized communities, and reducing violence from organized crime.

Helena, MT About Blog Youth Connections works with the Helena Community to reduce substance use, violence and increase social / emotional and mental health supports for yYouth Connections works with the Helena Community to reduce substance use, violence and increase social / emotional and mental health supports for youthyouth.

Finally, SAAF's parenting components may have reduced the frequency of conflict, violence, and neglect in the home, any of which can activate stress - related autonomic and endocrine pathways in youth, with downstream consequences of inflammation (43 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 49).

Headlines and accompanying voyeurism have reduced the problem of youth violence to its simplest common denominator.

Reviews and meta - analyses of the prevention of substance abuse (Gottfredson & Wilson, 2003; Lochman & van den Steenhoven, 2002), violence and antisocial behavior (Fagan & Catalano, 2013; Wilson, Lipsey, & Derzon, 2003), poor mental health (Greenberg et al., 2001; Hoagwood et al., 2007), and positive youth development (Catalano, Berglund, Ryan, Lonczak, & Hawkins, 2004) have shown that both universal and targeted prevention programs can substantially reduce the rate of problem behaviors and symptoms, as well as build protective factors that reduce further risk in child and adolescent populations.

Morningside is a well respected organization based on Manhattan's Upper West Side that has evolved as a national leader in the field of social and emotional learning in part because of its approach to restorative circles, proven by a Columbia University study to have helped reduce aggression and violence in children and youth.

Our findings add support to the growing literature stressing the importance of interpersonal resources and connections for youth, safety and absence of violence, and healthy role - modeling in reducing problem behavior and increasing positive behavior.

The study aims to determine whether receiving the Second Step intervention in middle school reduces youth aggression, sexual violence, and substance use, and teen dating violence when in high school; to evaluate Second Step program effects on trajectories of bullying, victimization, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, and teen dating violence in high school, and to examine the relations among growth in aggression and substance use.

Researchers concluded that they found «compelling evidence» that the program «reduces aggression and violence in children and youth and enhances their classroom learning.

The goals of RIPP are to reduce aggressive behavior and violence in school - aged youth, and to intervene with young children to help them avoid potential violence in adolescence.

The objective of our study was to evaluate the real - world effectiveness of ROE in preventing violence (reducing aggression and increasing pro-social behaviour) in children and youth at the individual level, immediately after program completion and up to three years afterwards, in two successive samples determined via cluster random assignment, in order to provide rigorous evidence to inform provincial government decision - making regarding the future expansion of ROE in Manitoba, including questions related to relative effectiveness by student gender and grade level.

A randomized experiment to evaluate the real - world effectiveness of Roots of Empathy (ROE) in preventing violence (reducing aggression and increasing prosocial behavior) in children and youth, immediately after the program and up to three years afterwards.

A number of universal school - based programs have been shown to be effective in preventing or reducing violence among school - aged youth.

On all three levels of prevention, the Minneapolis Health Department (MHD) works with its partners — police, schools, parks, county services, community organizations, youth, and more — toward a common goal of reducing violence among young people in Minneapolis.

Study findings have implications for the primary prevention of youth violence, including the use of family - based approaches that build relationships and parental monitoring skills and community - level change approaches that promote informal social control and reduce neighborhood concerns about safety.

Parental involvement was reported as increasing, effectiveness for pro-social youth development (Catalano et al., 2002 ***; Durlak et al., 2007 ***), universal interventions to promote mental health (Wells et al., 2003 ***; Adi et al., 2007a ***), stress and coping interventions (Adi et al., 2007a ***), interventions to reduce violence and bullying (Adi et al., 2007b ***; Blank et al., 2009 ***; Farrington and Ttofi, 2009 ***) targeted approaches to prevent mental disorders (Greenberg et al., 2001 **; Shucksmith et al., 2007 ***) and conduct disorder (Waddell et al., 2007 **).