In fact, according to the National Endowment for the Arts, exposure to the arts tends to promote education, health and well-being and economic prosperity for at risk youth across the board.
Many youth programmes fail because they are simply repeating the same information, reckons Neil Wragg, director of Youth At Risk, a charity that runs mentoring programmes for teenagers.
The programme foresees the implementation of initiatives geared both towards youth at risk and towards adults dealing with youth.
As governments grapple with the fiscal reckoning, they are squeezing the nonprofits they retain to feed the hungry, house the homeless or mentor at-risk youth.
Last spring, in a private meeting with Hispanic bigwigs, she pressed the president to move unilaterally to protect Latino undocumented youth at risk of deportation.
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Our panel included luminaries from a diverse range of fields: Tamika Catchings, professional basketball player, and founder of Catch the Stars Foundation, which works with at-risk youth.
During her incarceration, the site says, Atkins worked to help at-risk youth, violent crime victims and homeless children, among others.
Sandusky molested boys he met through the Second Mile, a charity he founded for at-risk youth.
He molested boys he met through the Second Mile, a charity he founded for at-risk youth.
During her incarceration, the site says, Atkins has worked to help at-risk youth, victims of violent crimes and homeless children.
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Dr. Wolniak and his team at NORC were commissioned by the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans (HAA) in 2010 to advance the understanding of resilience among HAA Scholars and among at-risk youth generally.
Industry magazine Hazards says it is the "novice factor" - inexperience not youth - that puts them at risk.
That spree in the '80s and early '90s of kids killing kids, even at funerals, so shocked the city that leaders of all stripes -- political, religious, business, nonprofit -- initiated a comprehensive, community-based strategy to reach at-risk youth early, and over five years, the rate of youth homicides dropped 80%.
"If we can remove the constant exposure to this behavior as well as to the smoke itself, we also stand a better chance of keeping at-risk youth from beginning to smoke, " Mello says.
Nationwide, 32.8% of students had texted or e-mailed while driving a car or other vehicle on at least 1 day during the 30 days before the Centers for Disease Control conducted its 2011 Youth Risk Survey (PDF).
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