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Abstinence Education for Urban Youth
Journal of Community Health, 2000Teen sexual problems in the U.S. are reaching enormous proportions. Attempts to prevent common problems, pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, are underway through the persistent efforts of community, health, academic and government organizations. Abstinence education is one of the current attempts.
L, Carter-Jessop +4 more
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2021
Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth. Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process. Includes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of racialized youth, urban farmers, and “voluntary risk ...
Julie‐Anne Boudreau +2 more
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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth. Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process. Includes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of racialized youth, urban farmers, and “voluntary risk ...
Julie‐Anne Boudreau +2 more
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Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2007
Although postsecondary employment outcomes for transition-age youth with disabilities have improved over the past decade, minority youth with disabilities continue to lag behind their peers in achieving a job. This study of predominantly minority youth participating in the Marriott Foundation's Bridges From School to Work Program from 2000 to 2005 ...
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Although postsecondary employment outcomes for transition-age youth with disabilities have improved over the past decade, minority youth with disabilities continue to lag behind their peers in achieving a job. This study of predominantly minority youth participating in the Marriott Foundation's Bridges From School to Work Program from 2000 to 2005 ...
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Assessing Exposure to Violence in Urban Youth
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1998This study reports on the development of a structured interview, My Exposure to Violence (My ETV), that was designed to assess child and youth exposure to violence. Eighty participants between the ages of 9 and 24 were assessed. Data from My ETV were fit to a Rasch model for rating scales, a technique that generates interval level measures and allows ...
M B, Selner-O'Hagan +4 more
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Endangered Youth? Youth, gender and sexualities in urban Botswana
Gender, Place & Culture, 2004Age is now recognised as a significant social cleavage in research on youth in the South. Using participatory urban appraisal methodologies, this article explores constructions of sexualities among urban youth in Botswana, a country that is currently experiencing an HIV/AIDS epidemic and high levels of teenage pregnancy.
McIlwaine, Cathy, Datta, Kavita
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Civic Competence in Urban Youth
Applied Developmental Science, 2002Civic competence and obstacles to its development are explored in urban youth. Our review suggests that urban youth lag behind suburban adolescents in civic knowledge and civic participation. These lags may be attributable to low levels of political participation among urban adults, educational failures, and a lack of childhood opportunities to join ...
Daniel Hart, Robert Atkins
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Developing Self-Esteem in urban youth
Community Mental Health Journal, 1984A group of Black, urban, teenage males from the Central Detroit catchment area were certified through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA) Summer Youth Employment Program to participate in a Youth and Self-Esteem project. The project's objective was to expose the participants to older Black males who have made significant ...
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VIOLENT DELINQUENTS AND URBAN YOUTHS*
Criminology, 1986Violent juvenile crime is disproportionately concentrated in urban neighborhoods, and accordingly an understanding of the sources of serious delinquency is con founded by components of urbanism. These milieus usually have high rates of absolute poverty and relative economic deprivation, as well as weak social institutions.
JEFFREY FAGAN +2 more
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Investing in youth in urban America
National Civic Review, 1994AbstractThe fundamental challenge of a renewed American community is attention to the needs of youth, particularly the large and growing proportion living in disenfranchised, urban circumstances. Fortunately, communities across the nation have acknowledged this face, prompting them to launch innovative programs to prevent and stop youth violence.
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African (Urban) Youth Languages
2017A growing phenomena in urban centers on the African continent in the latter half of the 20th century and start of the 21st century has been what have been described as Urban Youth Languages,’ although the ‘urban’ moniker is increasingly being dropped as these phenomena spread out from cities to rural areas. The term tends to refer to language phenomena
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