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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.

There are many lessons still to be learnt about the treatment of vulnerable youths in state custody.

Rachel Porter, General Manager of Whitelion and author of new book Doin» Time, discusses the issues pertaining to troubled, vulnerable youth in Australia.

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.

Not exact matches

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

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.

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.

Every person at a youth sports event in an official capacity should be subject to certain standards, in the effort of protecting a vulnerable demographic.

Conventional wisdom used to hold that it was the changing sex hormones that made kids «crazy,» but scientists now understand that puberty kicks off changes in the brain that make youth more emotionally sensitive, more sensitive to their social world, more willing to take risks, and more vulnerable to mental illness and addictions.

She said, the current economic hardship, which has led to high unemployment and school dropout rates, has made a large section of the youth vulnerable to the entrapments of some mischievous politicians, who would like to recruit them to engage in violence in the November 7 general elections.

He said, «It is germane at this stage to congratulate the Federal Government which in the last one week commenced the payment of monthly stipends to its successful applicants for the N - Power schemes for the unemployed youths in our country and the payment of monthly stipends of N5, 000 to vulnerable but socially responsible poor in our society.

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 key to our comprehensive plan to change that is to target gang activity by attacking the root cause — youth recruitment — through programs and outreach to protect vulnerable students,» Cuomo said in a statement.

«The placement of vulnerable children and young persons with complex needs in YOIs [youth offenders institutes] may result in increased risk of self - harm and suicide, which are often difficult for staff to manage effectively, even with the benefit of the policies and procedures which are in place.»

The plan itemizes the approach towards investing in people, including promoting social inclusion through social investment programmes for the vulnerable and targeted programmes for the North - East and Niger - Delta, job creation and youth empowerment and investments in human capital while outlining the competitiveness imperatives as enhancing infrastructure (power, roads, rail, ports and broadband services, and leveraging public - private partnerships (PPPs)-RRB-, improving the business environment through the initiatives under the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and promoting digital - led growth.

Louis Tehan, Executive Director of Upstate Cerebral Palsy, said: «The Oneida County College Corps Program is one way that we can help attract and retain young people as well as address the need for a highly dedicated workforce to deliver crucial and pivotal help in shaping the lives of vulnerable children, youth and families.

«Having personal experience with the criminal justice system and now working with at - risk youth to develop consequential thinking skills, this population is extremely vulnerable to the negative influences and trauma of incarceration, resulting in re-offending and potentially prolonged mental and social instability,» explained M.A.D.E Transitional Services Executive Director Toney Earl, Jr..

To reduce suicide among school youth, we might consider paying closer attention to preventing their use of alcohol and cigarettes and implementing these prevention programs in school settings to reach vulnerable adolescents at risk for suicide.»

«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.

«Clearly, pediatricians and other health professionals need to be particularly attentive to screening for binge drinking in these vulnerable youth.»

The researchers noted that previous studies have shown that suicide in youths can be contagious, where one suicide in a school appears to spark the idea in other vulnerable youths to do the same.

«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.

She has taught in prisons, specialized in pre-natal yoga, and supported programs for vulnerable youth.

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.

«We have a collective responsibility to ensure education plans take into account the needs of some the most vulnerable children and youth in the world — refugees, internally displaced children, stateless children and children whose right to education has been compromised by war and insecurity.

LGBTQIA youth may be especially vulnerable in this respect.

This special report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most vulnerable students in the nation's schools, including youths in juvenile detention facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.

Foremost among the vulnerable and victims in the chaos and destruction of war, civil unrest, and natural disasters are children and youth.

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.

She believes the best way to transform education is to do it in partnership with vulnerable youth and their teachers, with evidence and by design.

«There is a huge amount of migration worldwide, not just in the U.S., and in juggling that there are challenges to vulnerable newcomers and the host community alike,» said Visiting Professor Helen Haste, who moderated last week's Askwith Forum, «Youth in the Maelstrom: Newcomers, Identity and Education.»

We recently interviewed Ms Porter to find out a little more about her book and what a career in helping vulnerable youths have taught her about assistance, prevention and rehabilitation.

With your financial support and commitment, AYPF will continue to educate and inform policymakers about strategies that work to help young people, particularly vulnerable youth, succeed in the modern workplace, become lifelong learners, and be engaged citizens.

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They include a «Later to Literacy» program that supports the literacy needs of ESL students; the «Village of Attachment,» where staff, families, and community members create a web of support around the most vulnerable students; «Youth in Transitions,» an after - school program that works closely with students alongside their parents; and «PAWS,» a program designed to help immigrant students who entered the school system late in their high school years develop fundamental skills for success.

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Though we must certainly strive to close racial achievement gaps in mathematics and reading, we run the risk of substituting one form of inequity for another, ultimately denying our most vulnerable students the full liberal arts curriculum our most privileged youth receive almost as a matter of course.

His recent work analyzes the social, educational and cultural experiences of Black male K — 12 teachers who have been effective in addressing the academic and social needs of Black male youth, and how the practices and pedagogy translate to all teachers meeting the needs of vulnerable populations of students.

Localities that do not currently have a community schools should consider designing initiatives that address the needs of vulnerable youth and their families, and LGBTQ youth in particular.

The youth workers who know about vulnerable youngsters are not fully integrated into the NCS model of engaging with local authorities, she claimed, meaning «safeguarding won't happen effectively in your system.»

K - 8 Youth Development provides rigorous academic interventions, college prep workshops, civic engagement projects, STEM / arts enrichment activities, and health / nutrition programming to vulnerable elementary and middle school students in an out - of - school - time setting.

He is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has spent much of his career working with vulnerable youth and communities through Seneca Center, a non-profit agency in the Bay Area, California.

Despite enormous investment in education reform, the achievement gap between poor children and their higher - income peers persists, threatening the economic security of our nation's most vulnerable youth.

Children in poverty, African Americans, foster youth, and other student groups are especially vulnerable to barriers in their school attendance.

Schools and their systems find themselves without human capital and resources to meet the complex academic, emotional and economic realities of vulnerable youth, particularly those in urban and poverty areas.

In an unsentimental portrait of a vulnerable teenager, this poignant coming - of - age story tells of a black youth's discovery of his homosexual longings.

«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.

Skateistan is an NGO working in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa that provides empowerment through skateboarding and education, the project with Paul McCarthy and The Skateroom will hopefully create a skate school that will connect vulnerable youth to educational opportunities and bridging socio - economic differences to the youth of Johannesburg.