Sentences with phrase «with african american»

Contextually - relevant validation of peer play constructs with African American Head Start children: Penn interactive peer play scale.

Suppressor effects in coping research with African American adolescents from low - income communities

In a study examining predictors of engagement in both African Americans and Hispanics (Perrino et al., 2001), ethnicity was related to engagement, with African American parents being less likely to engage than Hispanics.

Bridging the Cultural Divide: Innovative Supervision Practices to Impact Disproportionality With African American Clients in Child Welfare (PDF - 99 KB) Parrish & Hargett Protecting Children, 25 (1), 2010 Discusses three models of child welfare supervision and suggests strategies for each type to increase the effectiveness of working with African American families.

Sam Simmons, AA, LADC, has over 27 years of experience working as a behavioral consultant specializing in culturally - sensitive trauma - informed work with African American males and their families, with a focus on addressing chemical dependency, interpersonal violence and historical trauma.

Description: Learn how to work with African American couples using tips and tools to enhance your healthy marriage program.

My specific specialty is working with African American men who have difficulty expressing their emotions in relationships.

Goodrum added, «Our findings suggest that health care professionals working with African American youth evidencing or at risk for externalizing problems should carefully assess the structure and functioning of each family.»

Heather Martarella, PhD: «Considering the Impact of Racism and Oppression When Working with African American Clients» (June 2009) This presentation takes racism and oppression into account when working with couples and families and making diagnoses.

Interestingly, agapic love scores also differed as a function of participant ethnicity, with African American participants reporting lower levels of agapic love than Latino / a, Asian / Pacific Islander, and non-Hispanic White participants.

Cultural competence — Facilitators should have experience working with African American youth and their caregivers.

Filled with evocative clinical material, chapters highlight specific issues to consider when working with African American, Latino, Native American, and Asian American children.

NACAC urges agencies to undertake adequate training for adoption workers to enhance their knowledge of identity, cultural, and ethnic issues in working with African American, Latino, Aboriginal, and Native American children and families.

Social Work With African American Males: Health, Mental Health, and Social Policy Johnson (2010) View Abstract Presents an in depth look at African - American males as an underserved population.

Practitioners should not hesitate to use Triple P with African American fathers, a paper co-authored by US researcher Patricia Kohl, of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St Louis, concludes.

Towards culturally relevant preventive interventions: The consideration of racial socialization in parent training with African American families

I specialize in working with African American and LGBTQ individuals and couples.

Much his efforts have been around working with African American families in support of enhancing their growth and development, to assist them with competent community services that reduce barriers, in a strategic effort to build strong families and safe communities.

Since the present study was conducted in inner - city public high schools, with African American students with high normal blood pressure, empirical evaluation is needed to determine if the findings may be generalizable to other students.

Maintained relationships with African American media outlets and served as a liaison in the office

The Rooney Rule is a diversity success story: The Institute for Diversity and Ethics In Sport consistently gives the NFL an A grade for racial diversity; the NFL applies the rule to all executive - level positions in the league's corporate office; six of the 32 NFL general managers are racial minorities; six of the last eight Super Bowls have featured teams with an African American head coach or general manager; and in the 2013 offseason, when African Americans were not selected for head coaching vacancies, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell proclaimed his disappointment publicly — furthering reiterating the importance of diverse leadership on NFL sidelines.

In combining traditional genres with African American female subjects, Thomas makes a case for opening up the conventional parameters of art history and culture.

Ligon's work is frequently concerned with African American history and its enduring relevance to contemporary understanding of race, identity and sexuality.

Trumpeter - composer Marquis Hill's new body of work takes inspiration from the connection he has with African American poetry.

We need more work by more young, midcareer living artists and certainly African American artists who deal with African American subjects.

In collaborating with the African American Chicago artist Theaster Gates, who opened a new South Side project, the Stony Island Arts Bank, on the biennial's opening weekend, Grima and Herda found a productive way to step outside architecture's hothouse of generational and territorial rivalries.

Founded in 2000, the GM Center for African American Art represents one of the first departments concerned exclusively with African American art at any major art museum.

«By coupling the symbols and phrases most closely associated with the African American story with the abstract expressionist painterly technique in the multi-panel format, Jean - Michel Basquiat created an exceptional masterpiece of history painting.»

Mattel made the doll in a talking version, one with an African American complexion, and one with anatomically correct features.

His work deals primarily with the African American experience and in recent years has focused on the effects of stereotypes and racial politics on American culture.

One can look for clues to the whole question of identity, only starting with African American identity.

Demonstrating his use of what the artist calls «dirty objects» Hammons's Bag Lady in Flight (1975/90) is made of greasy brown paper bags delicately folded into wing - like formations and embroidered with African American hair, evoking the feeling of a phoenix rising from discarded objects.

It's very good to see, actually, in Britain, in London, you are beginning to see more and more exhibitions dealing with African American artists.

But, as former director of the Brooklyn Museum, I've done numerous exhibitions dealing with African American artists, either as large solo exhibitions or in large group exhibitions.

With his unique perspective, Hammons fuses the power of street vernacular with African American culture.

Central to the exhibition is a site - specific installation titled «Storm at Sea» in which the artist utilizes piano keys, an African sculpture and a glitter - covered ship to suggest motifs associated with the African American experience of the trans - Atlantic slave trade.

In addition, Hart is planning collaborative events with local community organizations and will also host a Black Lunch Table conversation with African American artists.

I do vow to see more art in 2017, starting with the African American Artists on View show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which closes February 28th.

A curator and professor of art history and archeology at Columbia University, Kellie Jones spent the past decade researching and connecting with African American artists who got their start in Los Angeles half a century ago.

We are committed to increasing financial literacy within our communities through workshops and events — like #BlackMoneyMattersLA, our Smart Money Summer School Workshops, the OneUnited Mural Project and Money on My Mind symposium with the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA)-- and by offering affordable financial services to meet the needs of urban communities — like UNITY Savings, UNITY Visa secured credit card to rebuild credit and U2 Checking, our second chance checking account.

Shortly before Walter Mosley published Devil in a Blue Dress, I was working with an African American writer in Chicago.

She reluctantly befriends and then falls in love with an African American boy, Wash, who is both brilliant and kind to her younger brother and sister.

The author devoted only about five pages of this five hundred page book, however, to a discussion of King's relationship with an African American woman named Ada.

Identifying and promoting social competence with African American preschool children: Developmental and contextual considerations

This approach takes into account students» four literacy needs — academic, cultural, emotional, and social — and relies on instructional practices that have proven effective with African American males.

Prior to joining NoVo, she taught 9th grade special education and worked as a community organizer with the African American Policy Forum and Girls Justice League.

Furthermore, the program was the most beneficial for teachers» reduction of exclusionary discipline with African American students.

JPS is a majority - black district, with African American students making up over 96 percent of the student body.

Minority students have shared in these gains, with African American, Latino, and American Indian students experiencing the largest high school graduation rate improvements.

This is the first study to show that programs like MTP - S that focus on teacher - student interactions in a sustained manner using a rigorous approach can actually reduce the disproportionate use of exclusionary discipline with African American students.