At-Risk Youth
Law Enforcement Referral of At-Risk Youth: The SHIELD Program
... The demand for effective approaches to prevent juvenile delinquency and sub- sequent adult criminal behavior is growing across the Nation. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) actively ...
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Professional Artist as Teachers with At-risk Youth: A Narrative Case Study
... 179). I became interested in knowing the techniques and strategies a professional artist would employ with at-risk youth. After viewing several classes, I decided to narrow the study to examine more closely ...
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A Character Education Program: Moral Development, Self-Esteem and At-Risk Youth
... researchers and others point to the necessity for educators to be more culturally sensitive and provide programming to teachers and administrators about at-risk youth and the role the education system may ...
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The Effects of a Summer Camp Experience on Factors of Resilience in At-Risk Youth
... at-risk youth. In terms of positive identity, youth who attended the summer camp reported significantly greater positive growth in their belief of a good future life for themselves from pre to post ...
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Exploration of the Effects of Telerehabilitation in a School-Based Setting for At-Risk Youth
... 2003). Conversely, such children overcome obstacles when provided with the support of service providers qualified to enhance access to appropriate care (Ungar, Liebenberg, Armstrong, Dudding, & van de Vijver, 2013). ...
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Mentoring Programs on At-Risk Youth
... At-risk youth mentoring programs come in different shapes and sizes but are generally borne of the idea of matching an “older” caring adult with a youth in order to provide guidance and support on a ...
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Guiding at-risk youth through learning to work
... Mentoring projects run by NGOs in Hungary, and subsequently the Roma education fund in countries such as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania and Serbia have shown that mentors can play a key role in ...
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Evaluating an In-School Drug Prevention Program for At-Risk Youth
... Post hoc comparisons revealed positive benefits of the Opening Doors program at posttest (i.e., an adjusted mean frequency value below the value obtained for the control group) but no[r] ...
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Examining the Sensory Profiles of At-Risk Youth Participating in a Pre-employment Program
... the youth who had the combination of high sensation avoiding and low sensation seeking profiles may be less likely to seek sensory stimuli and more likely to avoid stimuli (Brown & Dunn, ...These youth ...
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The Context of Resilience among At-Risk Bahamian Youth
... future-oriented such that the questions were not actually tapping into the behaviours in which the students were currently engaged. Furthermore, the absence of such behaviours was indicative of resilience. With the ...
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Mentoring programs for Indigenous youth at risk
... at-risk youth,—from improved self-esteem and a sense of hope through to increased engagement with school, family and community and reduced participation in risky or criminal behaviours (Farruggia et ...
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The Bond Between Risk Factors and Youth Mentorship
... discusses youth crime. With many of the factors that put youth at risk of committing crime are linked to poor and underdeveloped social bonds, creating new and positive social bonds could be ...
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The Youth Mental Health Risk and Resilience Study (YouR Study)
... Accordingly, the development of biomarkers may require a stronger focus on non-invasive techniques that allow a direct assessment of neuronal dynamics at high temporal resolution. This approach is sup- ported by emerging ...
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Youth at risk for serious mental illness: methods of the PROCAN study
... at risk for SMI, for instance those at risk for psychosis, widespread WM aberrations have been observed in multiple brain regions [29], with fronto-temporal and fronto-limbic connections, including the ...
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Involvement of Male Youth into Accidents in Upper Egypt: Pattern and Risk Analysis
... Safety at all settings has always been a major concern of mankind. Accidents may simply be perceived as an antonym of safety. It is often seen as threat to people’s safety and security, for the damage and loss in ...
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High-Risk Youth and Health: The Case of Excessive School Absence
... Average percentage absence for all 131 exces- sively absent students enrolled in the intervention program for whom attendance data are available for both the quarter of parent interview [r] ...
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Serving High-Risk Youth in Context: Perspectives from Hong Kong
... their youth clients in the exact environment where risks are being experienced (Algado, 2012; Gupta & Taff, 2015; Kronenberg, Algado, & Pollard, 2005; Kronenberg, Pollard, & Sakellariou, ...
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Does school attendance reduce the risk of youth homelessness in Tanzania?
... of youth homelessness internationally, organizations tend to focus on offering ser- vices to assist these “street children” with a goal of remov- ing them from the streets and re-integrating them with their ...
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Insights on Inspirational Education for “High-Risk” Youth Informed by Participatory Action Research (PAR) on Youth Engagement: Short Communication
... homeless youth and categorized their responses to questions about the lives of homeless youth in Edmonton, based on the length of homelessness — short-term, medium-term, and chronic ...homeless ...
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Love letters to services past: risk and outdoor education in youth work
... say, youth workers are now much more likely to work with groups of young people who are labelled in a stigmatising way (such as young people deemed likely to offend) and have no real choice about whether or not to ...
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