1. Executive Summary NextGen Fitness will serve North Philadelphia area school age children, helping them to become more productive, while lowering their overall health risk with innovative wellness programs and strategies. Our business is based on two simple facts: 1. Healthy school age children are more productive than chronically ill and overweight children. 2. It costs less to prevent injuries or illnesses than to treat them after they occur. At NextGen Fitness, we tie learning ability
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A Re-entry Programs is defined as any service or program which provides incarcerated individuals with the opportunity to reinsert themselves back into the community after serving time in jail or prison. Only inmates with a good record may obtain access to this type of service even though it is seen as a form of rehabilitation. These specialized programs provide offenders with employment, education, health and social services, including access to housing, work, health care, counseling and job training
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has been around for 49 years. Medi-cal is accepted for payment. If the client does not have Medi-cal the fee will be based on a sliding scale. “No child will be turned down based on there inability to pay. That is a guaranteed. If the child needs treatment it will be provided “(V. Lopez, Adolescent AOD Counselor, September 6, 2012). Valerie Lopez works at McAlister Institute as an Adolescent Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Counselor. The interview method was conducted over the telephone and through e-mails
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CONTROLS 29 4.1 IMPLEMENTATION 30 4.2 MARKETING ORGANIZATION 32 4.3 CONTINGENCY PLANNING 33 5.0 CONCLUSION 34 REFERENCES 35 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Life Coaching /Consulting Services will offer services to inner city youth and young adults. Initially the plan is to offer the services in the St. Louis City, County and outlying Missouri State major cities. Increasingly young people seem to be having difficulty making good choices, from as simple as deciding should they do their homework
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least one night either in a shelter or "on the streets" without adult supervision. On occasion, where warranted by the research being discussed, the term is also used to describe homeless young adults up to age 24. • Homelessness among youth in the U.S. is disturbingly common. With an estimated annual prevalence of at least 5 percent for those ages 12 to 17, adolescents appear to be at greater risk for literal homelessness than adults. Although homeless youth appear throughout the nation, they are
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Perry, M.D., Ph.D.* Kevin Colwell, M.A.** Stephanie Schick, M.Ed.*** For: Encyclopedia of Crime & Punishment Project Director, D. Levinson Berkshire Publishing Group Great Barrington, MA * ChildTrauma Academy, Houston, TX and Children’s Mental Health Programs, Alberta Mental Health Board, Calgary, CA ** ChildTrauma Academy, Houston, TX *** ChildTrauma Academy, Houston, TX Official Citation: Perry, B.D., Colwell, K. and Schick, S. Child Neglect in: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment Vol 1.(David Levinson
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harm to the body. There are three types of diabetes: type I, which is also know as juvenile diabetes that affects most children and young adults have to take an insulin injection everyday to regulate the glucose level. Type II or adult onset diabetes, which is more serious and develops when the body cannot function to make the required amount of insulin, which is diagnosed mostly in would find affecting more adults. In this case the patient has to take both insulin injections and medication by mouth
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Article 34 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is one right that is consistently broken throughout Africa and it is important and should be fixed because children are being mistreated for no apparent reason. Adults are using them for pleasure and do not even think about what they are doing. This activity could impact these children in a bad way and they would not act the same before this happened. This behavior should not be tolerated and anyone who violates this policy should be punished
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Foundations of Human Services Worksheet Tonya Gray BSHS/305 March 31, 2014 Catherine Jenkins, LCSW, NCC University of Phoenix Material Foundations of Human Services Worksheet Answer, in a 50- to 100-word response, each of the following questions: 1. Identify the four themes of human services. The themes of human services are problems in living where humans are not able to meet the needs for providing food, shelter, and medical care for themselves. Self- sufficiency
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Adolescent Substance Abuse Isaiah.R 3/27/14 In society today, a common problem among teenagers is the use of drugs. Teen age years are probably the most challenging periods of life. It is a stage of finding yourself versus confusion of knowing oneself. Belonging and being accepted in a group seems to be very important, as well as being “cool”. Troubled, teens turn to things such as drugs to help Suppress or ease the emotional/mental pain of things such as the common rejection. During these
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