Sentences with phrase «young people at risk»

SNAICC operates from a membership base of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community - based child care agencies, Aboriginal Children's Services, family support services, foster care agencies, link up and family reunification services, family group homes, community groups and voluntary associations, long day care child care services, pre schools, early childhood education services and services for young people at risk.

The department has a number of support programs and services available for all students including those with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and young people at risk.

Conclusions: The intervention was appropriately targeted to young people at risk for depression, and recruitment via Tumblr was feasible.

Thus, social media may be a new resource to identify, recruit, and intervene with young people at risk for depression.

Mental disorders typically emerge during adolescence and young adulthood and put young people at risk for prolonged socioeconomic dif culties.

We have a means of identifying young people at risk of mental health issues when their parent presents for treatment for their own mental health issues or during baby checks.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Adolescents (MTFC - A)[now called Treatment Foster Care Oregon — Adolescents (TFCO - A)-RSB- compared with treatment as usual (TAU) for young people at risk in foster care in England.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) including the Internet and mobile phones have brought benefits to millions of children, but at the same time ICTs can put young people at risk of violence, exploitation and abuse.

Key actions of Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery include: • Introduction of a pilot supervised injecting facility in Dublin's city centre; • Establishment of a Working Group to examine alternative approaches to the possession for personal use of small quantities of illegal drugs; • Funding for a programme to promote community awareness of alcohol - related harm; • A new targeted youth services scheme for young people at risk of substance misuse in socially and economically disadvantaged communities; • Expansion of drug and alcohol addiction services, including residential services; • Recruitment of 4 Clinical Nurse Specialists and 2 Young Persons Counsellors to complement HSE multi-disciplinary teams for under 18s; • Recruitment of 7 additional drug - liaison midwives to support pregnant women with alcohol dependency; • Establishment of a Working Group to explore ways of improving progression options for people exiting treatment, prison or community employment schemes, with a view to developing a new programme of supported care and employment.

These difficult behaviours put those children and young people at risk of being excluded from the benefits of a stable family environment, creating a cycle of worsening behaviours and catastrophic outcomes.

It will prioritise research into: children who have experienced trauma; young people at risk of offending behaviour; carers — particularly those caring for someone with depression and anxiety; elderly Australians especially those in residential aged care; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, refugees and other potentially vulnerable cultural minority groups.

Justice reinvestment is about shifting spending away from prisons and juvenile detention expansion towards prevention, such as early childhood education in vulnerable communities, targeting young people at risk of school disengagement, intensive case work support with housing and employment support, and job creation.

Many other adults would have left this youngster to go her own way — perhaps even labelling her as «shy» or even «unfriendly» but within five minutes, an unpromising relationship can be transformed by using good skills in engaging young people at risk.

Each Garda District in Ireland has a juvenile liaison office and it is their responsibility to maintain informal contacts with young people at risk and to liaise with teachers, Child and Family Agency staff, school attendance officers and other gardaí in their local area.

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.

In Vancouver, he worked in skid row as a street worker with young people at risk and with homeless adults.

More than # 3.5 million will be invested in mentoring programmes to support thousands of young people at risk of disengaging from education and not fulfilling their full potential at school.

Fish oil protects for up to seven years against psychoses Fish oil offers protection against psychoses, concluded psychiatrists at the Medical University of Vienna a couple of years ago after doing a small study in which they gave young people at risk fish - oil capsules for 12 weeks.

Studies like PREDICT - HD have shown similar findings in young people at risk for HD who have no obvious symptoms.

While it can be severe enough to impair effective communi - cation, language disturbance is more typically a subtle but persistent feature that can be present prior to the onset of psychosis in young people at risk.

These include the mood disorders group, which proposes including bereaved people in the definition of major depression, and the psychotic disorders group, which is considering adding attenuated psychosis syndrome, a controversial diagnosis for identifying young people at risk of developing schizophrenia.

That makes it ethically dicey, some believe, to label young people at risk when not all of them will develop the disease.

«He serves as a mentor to young people at risk of engaging in violence, and he is working with community groups to make them aware of the occurrence of violence... [and] to develop approaches to solving some of the problems.

And because epigenetic changes typically occur early in life, it may one day be possible to identify young people at risk for suicide by studying their methylation patterns and then to treat them with drugs that regulate this mechanism, Szyf notes.

Lead author Kate Daine, a postgraduate researcher from the Centre for Evidence - Based Intervention, said: «There are no known online interventions to date that specifically target young people at risk of self - harm or suicide and yet we find that adolescents who self - harm are very frequent users of the internet.

«How internet affects young people at risk of self - harm, suicide.»

Rick Henderson, the chief executive of Homeless Link, said: «With the welcome focus on homelessness prevention in the Homelessness Reduction Act coming into force next week, we are pleased the government has listened to us and the sector and taken this important step to remove a barrier to accommodation for young people at risk of homelessness.»

«The constant mantra that all bureaucracy is bad and unnecessary is putting children and young people at risk of serious injury or death.»

«This has to be a top priority for whoever forms the next Government — failing to act will continue to put young people at risk.»

Lucy Faithfull Foundation research found failure to provide high quality age - appropriate sex education left young people at risk of inappropriate sexual behaviour and exploitation.

The new investment announced by Ms Smith today will be used for after - school patrols, the Safer School Partnerships, and Operation Staysafe - a programme where police can use safeguarding laws to remove young people at risk and take them into places of safety.

CARE has been responding after GambleAware said the influx of marketing campaigns is putting young people at risk of addiction.

???? It is going to cost millions of the church members money and they are putting other gullible, young people at risk.

This might be referred to as young people's mediation, or even homelessness mediation, because it could be an intervention that supports a young person at risk of homelessness.

Not exact matches

This is a group of people who refuse to inoculate their children against infectious diseases that ran rampant before vaccines were introduced, putting not only their own children at risk but also others who are too young or too ill to be vaccinated.

Those may not be the best avenues to reach the population at highest risk of becoming lifelong smokers: Young people who get hooked early.

And Elissa, at the risk of sounding old, is enjoying watching the life transitions of all the young people in her and Dave's life: babies and job searches and new homes and engagements and weddings.

Unless we act now to preserve the DACA program, all 780,000 hardworking young people will lose their ability to work legally in this country, and every one of them will be at immediate risk of deportation.

At Space Angels, it is our strongly - held belief that, in our generation, the people who carry the mantle of this «answerable courage» are not only the young men and women who are risking their lives to go into space, but also the entrepreneurs who are putting everything they have on the line to build a future in space for all humanity.

Some are young, and some are old; some want to use their money for retirement, and some want to have it at hand to buy a house; some people have a high tolerance for risk, while still other people's idea of a thrill is watching compound interest accumulate in a savings account.

Why should these young people be put at at unnecessary risk to uphold some intellectual's «Just War Theory»?

«We need to maintain the base of the industry into the future, particularly the younger people, and they're the ones that are most at risk through what's happening with Murray Goulburn and Fonterra.

We are delighted to announce the launch of our brand new online lottery scheme with funds raised going directly to the Leeds United Foundation, the grass roots sports charity who work tirelessly to deliver high level programmes across our region for children, young people, adults, disabled at - risk, the unemployed and the elderly.

In addition to the serious psychological and behavioral issues just mentioned, young people are also at risk for reproductive challenges such as prepubescent menstrual cycles, premature sexual activity, unwanted teen pregnancy, single or repeated abortions, single parenthood, and / or giving birth to an unwanted child.

Pregnant women and young children, among others (e.g., adults 65 years of age and older, people with certain medical conditions) are at high risk of developing flu - related complications.

And we continued to support young people in their passage to adulthood: with Youth Inclusion Programmes for young teenagers most at risk of offending and the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) to give older teenagers the option to stay in full time education.

We work with 50,000 children and young people across the UK and our projects are still seeing increasing numbers of families who are at breaking point and children who are at risk of neglect, entering the care system, or are getting into trouble with the law.

Barnardo's also argues for all people working in children's services to be trained to recognise the signs and take action if they believe a young person is at risk.

When children are not vaccinated, they are at increased risk for diseases and can also spread these diseases to others in their classrooms and community — including babies who are too young to be fully vaccinated, and people with weakened immune systems due to cancer or other health conditions.

Today, we serve more than 2,000 at - risk youth each year from more than 300 zip codes in New York and throughout the tri-state area, and an additional 8,000 young people through outreach efforts — as well as countless lives changed by our advocacy, training and capacity building work around the world.