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Healthy & Empowered Youth: A Positive Youth Development Program for Native Youth [PDF]

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2017
During 2010-2012, Oregon Health & Science University's Prevention Research Center, a Northwest Tribe, and the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, collaborated to evaluate the Healthy & Empowered Youth Project, a school- and community-based positive youth development program for American Indian and Alaska Native high school students.The Native ...
Craig Rushing, Stephanie N., Hildebrandt, Nichole L., Grimes, Carol J., Roswell, Amanda J., Christensen, Benjamin C., Lambert, William E.   +5 more
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Factors Supporting and Threatening the Adolescence of Transplanted Youth – Resilience, Well-Being, and Difficulty with Chronic Illness

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica
Objective: The present research investigated the proportion of vulnerable and protective factors in terms of mental health in transplanted adolescents compared to the age-matched control group.
Andrea KÖVESDI, Szabolcs TAKÁCS, Sándor RÓZSA, Dóra KRIKOVSZKY, Lajos KOVÁCS, Antal DEZSŐFI-GOTTL, Attila SZABÓ   +6 more
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Contextual and Individual Predictors of Bullying and Victimization in Slovenia: Positive Youth Development Perspective

Erebea, 2020
Bullying and victimization pose a serious risk for youth optimal development due to numerous negative short- and long-term consequences. One of the models with a focus on adolescents that can serve as a theoretical framework in designing prevention and ...
Ana Kozina, Tina Pivec
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Program Quality and Developmental Outcomes Related to Youth Volleyball in Ethiopia: Assessing Relationships and Variations

European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 2021
This study aims to assess program quality and developmental outcomes of a youth volleyball project in one of the regional states in Ethiopia, and further examine variations between groups across gender and project site zones. We applied a cross-sectional
Abdulaziz Mussema, Tefera Tadesse, Zelalem Melkamu   +2 more
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Youth sport programs: an avenue to foster positive youth development [PDF]

Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy, 2005
Concern about the growth in adolescent problem behaviours (e.g. delinquency, drug use) has led to increased interest in positive youth development, and a surge in funding for 'after school programs.' We evaluate the potential of youth sport programs to foster positive development, while decreasing the risk of problem behaviours.
Fraser-Thomas, Jessica L., Cote, Jean, Deakin, Janice   +2 more
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Positive Youth Development in Education [PDF]

, 2021
AbstractPositive youth development (PYD) is an approach to child and adolescent education that provides resources in the school and community to enable youth to reach their full potential and to flourish in a democratic society. The approach draws on various disciplines and legacies in its practices and approaches, ranging from school curricula to out ...
Daniel Romer, David Hansen
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Socio-Demographic Differences in Positive Youth Development in Spanish Undergraduates

Social Sciences, 2023
The positive youth development (PYD) model is a strength-based conceptualization of the transition to adulthood, in which the relationships that individuals establish within this context are essential.
Diego Gomez-Baya, Maria Muñoz-Parralo, Antonio David Martin-Barrado, Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Nora Wiium   +5 more
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Reassessing Bone Marrow Aspirate and Trephine Biopsies in Staging for Paediatric and Young Adult Patients With Ewing Sarcoma and Rhabdomyosarcoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ewing sarcoma (ES) and rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) are aggressive malignancies in children and adolescents where metastases impact prognosis. 18F‐fluoro‐2‐deoxy‐d‐glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG‐PET/CT) and bone marrow aspirate and trephine biopsies (BMAT) are used to identify disease involvement.
Imogen Andrews, Bruce Goodwin, Lauren Buckley, Rick Walker   +3 more
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Positive Youth Development

, 2014
Positive Youth Development (PYD) is a framework used to design and guide programs and services for children and youth. PYD emphasizes the relationship between young people’s strengths and resources and their capacity to live healthy and productive lives. The underlying tenets of PYD suggest that healthy child and youth development is characterized by a
Yolanda Anyon, Jeffrey M. Jenson
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source