Word: outreaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Runaways. Some are missing, their earnest young portraits splashed across flyers distributed by desperate parents. Many aren't missed at all. Most youths simply exchange one hell for another. Says Roger Hernandez, outreach coordinator for the Larkin Street Youth Center in San Francisco: "You can literally watch them age, week by week." And die. Living on the streets and on society's margins, runaways are the most vulnerable to the pestilences that kill America's teens: alcoholism, drugs, AIDS, homicide. About 20% of new cases of AIDS are among young adults in their 20s. Given the virus' latency period, that...
...Georgia Tech students are deeply involved in the initiative. In classes, the students are helping to plan traffic direction for the Games, computer systems to coordinate events, and community outreach efforts...
...College offers several resources for students with eating problems. The Bureau of Study Counsel, the University Health Services (UHS) and the undergraduate-run Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) all cater to their needs with counseling, peer groups and medical attention...
...resources will also likely become available this year--including a proposed student outreach organization--filling some voids in the Harvard support structure...
...Kaplan is now trying to found a group to do outreach on the issue around the campus...