suffering from sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) and girls become pregnant and young mothers. Given the increase in teenage pregnancies and the consequences on the quality of life of the young people, an intervention, is needed starting in the middle schools. According to a study done in late 2009 by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), a pro-choice organization, nationwide, teenage pregnancy rate was 71.5 pregnancies per 1,000 women ages 13 to 19 (Huffington Post 2010). Before intervention, however
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Who is to be blamed for Juvenile Delinquency? suggests juvenile delinquency refers to crimes committed by children and youth. There is an ongoing discussion as to who should be held responsible for such crimes in scholarly publications , case law and the media (Brank et al, 2006; Brown et al, 2009). The responsibility for juvenile delinquency is usually associated with the delinquent (Economist, 1993), parents (Brank et al, 2006), the educational institutions (Brown et al, 2009) as well as the
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GDN Working Paper Series Education, Training and Youth Unemployment in Kenya Joy Kiiru, Eldah Onsomu and Fredrick Wamalwa Working Paper No. 26 October 2009 About GDN The Global Development Network (GDN) is a leading International Organization of developing and transition country researchers and policy and research institutes promoting the generation, sharing, and application to policy of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development. Founded in 1999, GDN is now headquartered in
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thinking: prevention. I will use the Whole School Whole Community Whole Child Model (WSCC) to address this population because this model calls for collaboration across the school, community and family to meet needs and to ensure adolescent success (see appendix for model). The WSCC model is an expanded, updated version of the Coordinated School Health (CSH) approach that was created by the CDC in 1987. The updated approach focuses on the child by emphasizing a school wide focus calling for community collaboration
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heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own." (West).Youth homelessness is becoming an increasing problem in the United States. Youth are either forced out of their homes or leave because a combination of push and pull factors. There are many factors contributing to youth homelessness including abuse, addiction, family breakdown, and PTSD. Abuse in families or relationships is a factor of youth homelessness. "The current body of research indicates that abuse, breakdown
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innocent victims. Internet usage is at an all time high and will continue to increase in the future as more cultures are exposed to the capabilities of the internet. Technological advancements have led to some negative impacts on today’s youth through the increased usage of the internet. One area that the internet has impacted negatively is through plain old fashioned communication, there is no face- to-face interaction required when using the internet. In some households, like Greg’s
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Background of the Study Language is very important in our life. It is used to express our thoughts and ideas to communicate with others. In this modern era, language changes constantly. The language that we use today is getting wider and wider. Nowadays, youth; especially students are fond of using cyber gadgets like cell phones and computers to convey their messages and through these, they learned how to cope and change the way they convey their thoughts and ideas in different forms. Indeed, English proficiency
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country or countries of origin.' (p. 2). 'Children are one third of our population and all of our future.' (Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981). What society puts into the future of the children is also what they can expect to get out of them. There is an increase in juvenile offenders, especially females. According to Wilson, J., (2000), It is difficult to pull statistics on different ethnicity juvenile offenders. (p. 2). For example, to differentiate the statistics on the amount
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sense of belonging, love, attention, compassion; most all of communications form their parents in order to progress mentally, socially and academically. In my past experience working at Wil-Lou Gray opportunity school and volunteering at CIS Community in School, and Olympia alternative School students who mostly come from a single parent home are translations from a group home into a two parent are a single parent home does not have the love and support of their parents or any family member. The lack
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the lives of three adolescents – Tre Styles, Darrin ‘doughboy’ Baker, and Ricky – growing up in the notorious Crenshaw neighbourhood in Los Angeles, California. Style, who is raised solely by his father James Styles, along with Ricky, attempt to stay out of trouble; they even aspire to attend college. In contrast, Ricky’s younger brother ‘doughboy’ is heavily involved in LA street life, much to the disappointment of their mother, who struggles to raise both men on her own. Two of these characters fall
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