Sentences with phrase «with vulnerable youths»

We need to be aware of our own triggers and brain states as we interact with vulnerable youths.

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.

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.

This is a dangerous way of thinking about working with vulnerable youth.

Not exact matches

These capital improvements help with the renovation of youth facilities that provide safe havens for our most vulnerable communities, while also enhancing and improving access to resources for those who need it the most.

«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.»

«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..

The Online Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship Training Programme is part of efforts to equip over 3000 youth, mostly the vulnerable with employable skills by December 2018.

«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.

• Safety and Risk have been the focus of little published research about youth and young adults with autism, although generally people with developmental disabilities are vulnerable to abuse of all kinds.

Here she's genially, even goofily, vulnerable as a woman faintly aware that she has outgrown the hippy idealism of her youth, but hasn't settled on a suitable persona with which to replace it.

This transformation can only happen if society's most vulnerable youth and adults acquire basic literacy skills that equip them with the knowledge and confidence to improve their own lives and build more resilient communities,» Ms Bokova added.

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.

Cultural Caregiving Services must be accessed to the vulnerable groups — the oppressed, those with disabilities, those suffering from trauma, victims of war and disaster, the abandoned, the street kids, the out - of - school youth, the delinquent, the indigenous youth who feel helpless, excluded or desperate.

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.

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.

IEL's Coalition for Community Schools recently sat down with Menlo Park Elementary School Principal Kellie Burkhardt and Community School Coordinator Steven Joinson to take a deeper look at how they are re-writing the script on achievement levels and increasing opportunities for our most vulnerable youth.

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.

Unlike previous generations, emotionally vulnerable youth — with poorly developed coping skills — can not avoid bullies after school and on weekends.

instead of the «BET» channel being utilized for positive, inspirational, educational or meaningful programming — it has mostly broadcast the worst sociopathic, demeaning, undermining junk — promoting gangsterism & exploiting our vulnerable youth with pernicious mind - killing crap.

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.»

The funding will help National CASA release an annual publication of best practices for policymakers and child welfare practitioners, with the goal of improving the lives of the nation's most vulnerable youth.

«I am looking forward to working with her to improve the education of our nation's most vulnerable youth.»

Research shows that the reliance on punitive school discipline like suspensions, expulsions, and school arrests — «school pushout» — deprives students of learning time and takes the greatest toll on nonwhite students, students with disabilities, LGBT youth and other vulnerable student groups.

«Walking away from a publishing deal with HarperCollins was a massive step, but one that has given me the freedom to write what I believe is an important story: the story of Alesha, a vulnerable, disenfranchised young person from a generation of disaffected youth.»

The budget promised the government would work with financial institutions to expand no - cost banking services for youth, students and vulnerable groups.

Radisson Hotel Group and our franchisees often work with schools and non-profit organizations to offer trainee positions and job experience opportunities for young people, including at - risk - youth and other vulnerable members of society.

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.

However, without such a compelling conceptual framework with which to interpret «Untitled 2» (its media, listed as «steel, flat screen, and youth,» are not so enlightening), I can not but read the work in heavy, metonymic terms: the TV as technology, the boy as humanity, the Wall Street Journal as hegemonic power, the nude as vulnerable body — all rather hackneyed dichotomies of the day, made ready - to - hand by the exhibition's press release.

Each of the four MLC clinics provide free legal services to the most vulnerable populations — including people with disabilities and chronic illness, members of the LGBTQ community, undocumented immigrants and refugees, children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and people involved with the criminal justice system.

Finally, funding allows The Project to participate in targeted outreach and trainings to college and university students, faculty, campus law enforcement, and others on the legal rights of victims of sexual assault, leveraging its experience with youth and education law to benefit that especially vulnerable population.»

Implement as soon as possible an evidence - informed public education campaign, targeted at the general population but with an emphasis on youth, parents and vulnerable populations

Welfare reform has disrupted Medicaid benefits for millions of children who need treatment.97, 98 Medicaid enables many youth to receive psychiatric treatment.99 Many parents who left welfare to go to work found their new jobs did not provide insurance or, when available, they could not afford copayments.100, 101 The State Children's Health Insurance Program, designed to offset the loss of Medicaid, did not fulfill its intended purpose.98, 102 Moreover, welfare reform has not substantially decreased poverty103; many poor children have become even poorer.104 Poor children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justice system.

Celebrating over 20 plus years, the FRCSA has extensive experience serving the high need, most vulnerable populations with programs and services that promote responsible fatherhood, strengthen family relationships, support formerly incarcerated individuals, and foster youth and early childhood development.

Youths with poorer glycemic control are likely to experience more frequent out - of - range blood glucose values on their meters, leaving them vulnerable to parental blame and shame and their own distress and disappointment.

Partnering with Insurers in Caring for the Most Vulnerable Youth with Diabetes: NICH as an Integrator.