Word: youthe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conducting a literature review of past research, the report found that a lot of risks encountered by youth online are similar to those encountered offline. The task force said that it is often the social circumstances of these minors and not the social networks themselves that facilitate these issues...
...StreetSafe Boston is a new multi-year safety and youth development initiative being sponsored by the City of Boston and a number of local non-profits. Its primary mission is to focus crime-fighting resources on roughly 6,000 young people in Boston, both violent criminals and at-risk youth. The goals are to increase engagement of at-risk youth with community programs and services, develop a feeling of safety and security in the five targeted neighborhoods, and reduce violent crime and homicides...
...StreetSafe Boston is a much-needed mixture of new and old-school approaches to helping violent and potentially violent youth. The program, due to its unusual mixture of public and private partners, will be able to hire 25 new street workers through the Ten Point Coalition (A Boston ecumenical group of clergy and other leaders), therefore bypassing Massachusetts’ Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) laws which prohibit Boston from hiring street workers with a criminal background...
...initiative similar to StreetSafe Boston was able to achieve a glorious reduction in crime now referred to as the Boston Miracle. The street workers of this time were often former gang members or criminal offenders who were able to use their street credibility to persuade violent and potentially violent youth to choose a peaceful path...
...StreetSafe Boston will allow street workers with street credibility to return to the targeted neighborhoods, and will extend hours of operation for proven organizations operating nearby. The idea is to use effective street workers to bring violent and at-risk youth to neighborhood organizations which can provide them with job training and other social services...