Sentences with phrase «risk youth ages»

A community - based alternative to residential placement for moderate to high - risk youth ages 10 - 18 and involved with Juvenile Justice.

Erie County, NY - Erie County Legislature Chair Peter Savage is pleased to announce that the Erie County Department of Social Services has issued the 2018 Operation Primetime request for proposals for qualified agencies interested in providing Summer Primetime Programming to at - risk youth ages 5 - 20 residing in Erie County.

Erie County, NY - Erie County Legislature Majority Leader April Baskin is pleased to announce that the Erie County Department of Social Services has issued the 2018 Operation Primetime request for proposals for qualified agencies interested in providing Summer Primetime Programming to at - risk youth ages 5 - 20 residing in Erie County.

Erie County Legislature Majority Leader April Baskin is pleased to announce that the Erie County Department of Social Services has issued the 2018 Operation Primetime request for proposals for qualified agencies interested in providing Summer Primetime Programming to at - risk youth ages 5 - 20 residing in Erie County.

Erie County, NY - Erie County Legislator Pat Burke is pleased to announce that the Erie County Department of Social Services has issued the 2018 Operation Primetime request for proposals for qualified agencies interested in providing Summer Primetime Programming to at - risk youth ages 5 - 20 residing in Erie County.

Click Here to view the Request for Proposal (RFP), # 1807 VF, to Provide 2018 Summer Primetime Programming to at - risk youth ages 5 - 20 and residing in Erie County.

Dowdle and her husband founded The Shepherd's Watch Ministries, which offers summer camp to the community, as well as a year - round residential program for at - risk youths ages 13 - 18, in foster care, on their 60 - acre farm.

Not exact matches

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina shows that loneliness can «vastly elevate» a person's risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer, making it as dangerous to your health as a lack of physical inactivity in youth or diabetes in old age.

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

Those most at risk in our province are our youth aged 16 to 24 who have fled physical, emotional and / or sexual abuse; those who have been forced from their homes; and those who have aged out of foster care.

A 20something's Perspective — San Diego David Miller Age: 25 Occupation: Teacher at Edgewood Children's Ranch, a school for at - risk youth who have been arrested and or kicked out of...

The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress over the past two decades in improving many youth risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death in their age group, car crashes.

Because the potential risks associated with exposure to dust from worn artificial turf (which may contain lead) are not yet known, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that parents of youth athletes, particularly those under age 6, take certain precautions to minimize any potential risk.

Qualified agencies that are interested in providing Summer Primetime Programming to our young citizens, including at - risk youth, ages 5 - 20, can apply to the Erie County Youth Buyouth, ages 5 - 20, can apply to the Erie County Youth BuYouth Bureau.

The program will focus on youth in the city between the ages of 14 - 24 who are at risk for involvement with violence.

«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.

SEATTLE — Some people who have a particular form of a gene that, when mutated, causes Werner's syndrome — a rare disorder characterized by rapid aging in youth — appear to have a relatively low risk of suffering a heart attack.

Research shows that the earlier the age at which youth take their first alcoholic drink, the greater the risk of developing alcohol problems.

They began by teaching at - risk youth in Baltimore's underserved communities and have since expanded to teach private and group classes and workshops for students of all ages, demographics, and levels of experience.

It isn't easy to age in a culture obsessed with youth, media, and selfies, but it's important to be aware of the risks before you decide on seemingly innocuous procedures.

Older youth are at risk of constant transition and detainment — numerous caregiver placements, juvenile incarceration, and transitional housing for youth aging out of the foster - care system.

Seven years ago, IEL created a stem - and career - focused mentoring model for transition - age youth with disabilities involved or at risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system.

After all, you have your youth, and you are in a better position to take personal finance risks than someone who is twice your age.

Twentyfive at - risk youths, ranging from 6 to 12 years of age, attended.

The Warachikuy, officially declared as National Identity Festivity, equivalent to the Inti Raymi, was a warriors» rite, for the young male Incan nobility, who were submitted to hard tests of physical dexterity, risk and courage, to step from youth to mature age.

Maintenance is provided by the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservation Corps, which provides training, education and work experience to at - risk young adults and school - aged youth.

Youth Development Specialists provide support to young people at risk and help them prevent situations such as using drugs or getting pregnant at an young age.

Completed assessments and intakes for at - risk and homeless youth aged 16 - 21 in an outpatient treatment facility

From 2001 to 2010, the risk of death in the U.S. compared to peer nations was 76 % greater for infants and 57 % greater for children and youth age 1 - 19, according to a new Health Affairs study.

I have worked with many populations: Severe and Persistent Mentally Ill, Homeless, At Risk Youth, Adolescents, Foster Care Families, Abused Children, School Age Children, Fatherhood, Parenting, Marriages in trouble, Divorce, Couples, The Elderly and Caregivers as well as Substance Addicted Adults and Youth Seeking Recovery.»

«In my practice, I work with all age groups but specialize in working with at - risk youth and their families.

The escalation of antisocial behaviors at this age is evident from the risk factors identified in the youth aggression and violence literature:

Addresses the approaches, methods, and strategies used to identify mental health and substance use problems of high - risk youths (persons whose ages are between birth and 22 years) in settings that serve either a broad spectrum of children and adolescents or a high - risk population.

Identifying Mental Health and Substance Use Problems of Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Child - Serving Organizations (PDF - 2,954 KB) Holt (2011) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services Addresses the approaches, methods, and strategies used to identify mental health and substance use problems of high - risk youths (persons whose ages are between birth and 22 years) in settings that serve either a broad spectrum of children and adolescents or a high - risk population.

The two were matched up by Youth Assisting Youth, an organization that links «at risk» children aged 6 to 15 who are experiencing social, emotional, behavioural or cultural adjustment problems with volunteers aged 16 to 24 who can help them.

Participants included 81 immigrant and refugee youth aged 12 — 20 years (M age = 15.68; 54.3 % female) who completed self - report questionnaires assessing gang involvement and multiple risk and protective factors.

They are designed to be used by parents and caregivers with children and youth of all ages and risk levels.

Treatment needs to be targeted at major modifiable risk factors and its outcome measured objectively.26 It should preferably be at an early age as conduct disorder can be reliably detected early, 5 has high continuity, 27 is amenable to treatment at a young age, 4 and is very hard to eradicate in older children.28 In this section I discuss interventions for general aggressiveness only in children under 12; interventions targeting youth crime have been excellently reviewed by Farrington.29

They are designed for use with children and youth of all ages and risk levels.

Brief Strategic Family Therapy ® (BSFT ®) is a culturally - competent family therapy intervention for children and adolescents ages 6 to 18 years, who exhibit behavior problems including but not exclusive to substance abuse, associations with antisocial peers, bullying, truancy, and other recognized youth risk factors.

Project STRIVE is a 5 - session family - based intervention intended to reduce sexual risk behaviors, substance use and delinquency among youth ages 12 to 17 who have recently run away from home.

To improve the immediate and long - term social, economic and health outcomes for youth between the ages of 16 and 19 who are identified to be at risk.

These youth are at high risk for chronic delinquency, drug abuse, and HIV / AIDS and are particularly vulnerable to detrimental social, health, and mental health outcomes including chronic offending, drug dependence, and contracting HIV, as well as for a host of additional problems as they age (e.g., AIDS, physical and mental health problems, incarceration, early death).

The five risks at Wave 1 were never used a condom (10 %), drinking during either first or most recent sex (15.5 %), using drugs during either first or most recent sex (7.9 %), ever has sex for drugs or money (2.5 %), and early onset of sexual activity [< 13 years old, 11.6 % (age from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Brener et al., 2002)-RSB-.

However, these studies were not conducted with adolescents in high - poverty urban settings, where early sexual initiation is more normative than in lower - poverty settings.20 In a high - risk sample of African American youths aged 9 to 15 years, Romer et al21 found that parental monitoring was related only to very early sexual initiation (aged ≤ 10 years) and not to subsequent initiation of sex or condom use.

First, our study included a community sample that was assessed from early to late adolescence, and may not generalize to high risk or clinical samples, or to older ages as youth transition out of the teen years.

METHODS: Participants were 186 minority youth at risk for behavior problems who enrolled in long - term follow - up studies after random assignment to family intervention or control condition at age 4.

Measures assessing demographics and risk behaviors were administered to 134 youth (ages 12 — 19) in psychiatric treatment.

This study explored relations between components of cumulative risk and adjustment in a sample of 324 South African youth (M age = 13.11 years; SD = 1.54 years; 65 % female; 56 % Black / African; 14 % Colored; 23 % Indian; 7 % White), and tested competing models of emotion dysregulation as a mediator or moderator of risk — adjustment links.

Participants were 152 community - based early adolescent individuals (72 female, 80 male; mean age 12.6 years, s.d. 0.4 years; range 11.4 — 13.7 years), from a larger sample of 2479 grade 6 students (from 97 separate schools, representative of Victorian school sector type and socioeconomic classification) as part of a broader adolescent development study conducted at Orygen Youth Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, the aim of which was to investigate risk factors for psychopathology during adolescence.