Resources tagged with term(s) "At-risk youth"

  • At-Risk Youth
    Empowering disadvantaged and at-risk youth to build a better future and lead healthy, productive lives is the focus of many service and volunteer programs across the nation. Following are some of our...
  • National Youth Leadership Training
    Applications due by Friday, May 25 The National Youth Leadership Training is powering the next generation of leaders. While racism, classism, and oppression affect us all, young people are among the...
  • Webinar: Partnerships, Peace-Building, and Youth Engagement
    1:00 p.m. (ET); 12:00 p.m. (CT); 11:00 a.m. (MT); 10:00 a.m. (PT) Learn about youthrive's programming and how it inspires and engages youth and adults through education, leadership, and service to...
  • Webinar: Activating Youth to Tackle Big Issues
    1:00 p.m. (ET); 12:00 p.m. (CT); 11:00 a.m. (MT); 10:00 a.m. (PT) Learn about mobilizing campaigns, service-learning grants, and resources that YSA (Youth Service America) has to help engage youth,...
  • Youth Helping America - Leveling the Path to Participation: Volunteering and Civic Engagement Among Youth From Disadvantaged Circumstances

    This report is the third in the Youth Helping America series, a sequence of reports based on data from the a 2005 national survey of 3,178 American youth between the ages of 12 and 18. The survey...
  • Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants

    Focuses on children under age six who have at least one parent that was born outside the United States. Examines demographics, family structure, poverty and other hardships, health care, and child...
  • Establishing programs to support youth arts entrepreneurship
    An AmeriCorps*VISTA serving a low-income population in rural, south central Missouri collaborated with local volunteers and students to help promote the arts. Together they developed experiential...
  • Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: Identifying Strategies and Best Practices

    Outlines the current federal framework that addresses youth aging out of foster care. Identifies general outcomes for these youth, and highlights model county programs and best practices that are...
  • Aging Out

    Presents an intimate and uncensored view of the problems teenagers face as they age out of the foster care system. Shows three young people applying the resiliency they developed during their...
  • Effective Program Practices for At-Risk Youth: A Continuum of Community-Based Programs

    Describes effective practices of communities addressing at-risk youth issues by explaining the "how to" aspects of managing a project life cycle, sustaining funding for ongoing programs, building...
  • Ralph and Eileen Swett Foundation
    The Swett Foundation primarily funds programs for troubled youth as well as orphaned children, including the promotion of their adoption. Other areas of focus will be considered. No deadlines. Visit...
  • Hasbro Children's Fund
    The Hasbro Children's Fund supports programs that provide respite and access to play to terminal and seriously ill children; educational programs for children at risk; and basics for children in need...
  • Open Society Institute: Criminal Justice
    Primary focus areas are: to help prisoners make a successful transition from incarceration to productive, crime-free lives in the community; and to encourage policies and practices that divert...
  • Janus Foundation
    The Janus Foundation looks to develop partnerships with nonprofit organizations that are innovative, visionary, and forward thinking in their approach in communities throughout the country. The...
  • Allstate Foundation
    The Allstate Foundation's grantmaking priorities fall into three categories: Safe and Vital Communities, Economic Empowerment and Tolerance, Inclusion and Diversity. Deadlines vary. For more...
  • Preparing mentors to work with older foster youth
    Foster youth may have significant needs and issues that can inhibit the successful development of mentoring relationships. Many have experienced separation and loss in their lives, making it...
  • Engaging at-risk youth in leadership development
    For years, the field of youth development has stressed the benefit of cultivating leadership skills in teens — oftentimes among those that are already excelling. However, with appropriate...
  • Mentor Guide for People Working with Children of Promise

    Contains strategies for mentoring children who have an incarcerated parent. Describes stages of mentoring relationships and gives suggestions for activities and for addressing specific underlying...
  • Coping When a Parent is in Jail

    Contains coping strategies for youth who have an incarcerated parent. Includes details about what happens in jail and what visiting is like, what may happen in court, and describes what the...
  • McGruff and Scruff's Stories and Activities for Children of Promise

    Presented in comic book format, this resource is interspersed with game-like activities covering topics such as understanding and coping with difficult feelings, ways to stand up to peer pressure...
  • McGruff's Surprise Party

    Presented in comic book format, this booklet is intended to be used as a preventative resource when teaching about or discussing alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use with a child. Covers topics...
  • Winners Don't Use Drugs!

    Using a comic book format and interspersed with game-like activities, this resource focuses on reducing and preventing drug use among youth. Contains a section intended for parents to use when...
  • City Lights: Ministry Essentials for Reaching Urban Youth

    Covers every aspect of the complex ministry of reaching kids in metropolitan areas, including culture-specific perspectives and proven-effective practices for ministering to urban subcultures....
  • Violence and Young Children: Successful Violence Prevention Strategies

    Features highlights from a 1997 roundtable discussion with national violence prevention experts, plus interviews with young children about their experiences with violence. Part I of the video...
  • Violence and Young Children: Reducing the Risks

    Includes key points from a 1993 conference. Covers developmental effects of both domestic and community violence on young children, how experiencing or witnessing violence can effect feelings and...
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