Connecting With Disconnected Youth

Author : Titus Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736193163

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Connecting with Disconnected Youth - A Practical Guide to Positive Teen Engagement In Connecting with Disconnected Youth, Titus Lee provides practical strategies on how to effectively engage teenagers. Drawing on his many years of youth work experience he shows you how to gain access to hard-to-reach and marginalized teens that may be in your home and community. Whether you are a parent, educator, pastor or youth worker you will be equipped to excel in your efforts meaningful connections with the teenagers around you. Get ready to go to the next level of positive teen engagement with each enlightening principle, story and strategy that is provided in this book. Here are some of the cutting-edge insights that you will learn as you read: How to recognize various types of teen disconnection. Practical steps to bridging the gap with detached and dejected teens. Why some teens avoid interacting with authority-figures. How to convert your pain into passion that makes a difference. Five practical ways to win teens in your home, organization and community. Plus - You receive a positive youth engagement guide to use right away!

Author : Adrienne L. Fernandes
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781437920055

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Contents: (1) Introduction; (2) Background; (3) Overview of Research on Disconnected Youth: Methodology and Number of Disconnected Youth; Other Characteristics; Reasons Associated with Disconnection; (4) Analysis of Disconnected Youth: (a) Overview; Limitations; (b) Findings: Reasons Reported for Youth Not Being in School or Working; Characteristics of Disconnected Youth; Characteristics of Parents Living with Disconnected Youth; Trends Over Time; (5) Discussion: Overview; Poverty, Family Living Arrangements, and Parental Characteristics; Implications for Policy. Charts and tables.

Author : R. MacDonald,J. Marsh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230511750

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Disconnected Youth? by R. MacDonald,J. Marsh Pdf

How do young people get by in hard times and hard places? Have they become a 'lost generation' disconnected from society's mainstream? Do popular ideas about social exclusion or a welfare dependent underclass really connect with the lived experiences of the so-called 'disaffected', 'disengaged' and 'difficult-to-reach'? Based on close-up research with young men and women from localities suffering social exclusion in extreme form, Disconnected Youth? will appeal to all those who are interested in understanding and tackling the problems of growing up in Britain's poor neighbourhoods.

Author : Carrie James
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262028066

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Disconnected by Carrie James Pdf

How young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they encounter when they share and use online content and participate in online communities. Fresh from a party, a teen posts a photo on Facebook of a friend drinking a beer. A college student repurposes an article from Wikipedia for a paper. A group of players in a multiplayer online game routinely cheat new players by selling them worthless virtual accessories for high prices. In Disconnected, Carrie James examines how young people and the adults in their lives think about these sorts of online dilemmas, describing ethical blind spots and disconnects. Drawing on extensive interviews with young people between the ages of 10 and 25, James describes the nature of their thinking about privacy, property, and participation online. She identifies three ways that young people approach online activities. A teen might practice self-focused thinking, concerned mostly about consequences for herself; moral thinking, concerned about the consequences for people he knows; or ethical thinking, concerned about unknown individuals and larger communities. James finds, among other things, that youth are often blind to moral or ethical concerns about privacy; that attitudes toward property range from “what's theirs is theirs” to “free for all”; that hostile speech can be met with a belief that online content is “just a joke”; and that adults who are consulted about such dilemmas often emphasize personal safety issues over online ethics and citizenship. Considering ways to address the digital ethics gap, James offers a vision of conscientious connectivity, which involves ethical thinking skills but, perhaps more important, is marked by sensitivity to the dilemmas posed by online life, a motivation to wrestle with them, and a sense of moral agency that supports socially positive online actions.

Author : Edward DeJesus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 198114062X

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Connecting the Disconnected by Edward DeJesus Pdf

How can we prepare teachers and youth workers to better reach and engage youth? How can we connect the disconnected? What must be done to help young people connect to workforce and educational programs? With 5.5 million disconnected youth in the United States and millions more just struggling to hang on, Edward DeJesus, one of the country's brightest minds in youth development paints a picture of what must be done to connect millions of youth to opportunities beyond the streets. In 290 pages DeJesus reveals the secrets to youth engagement that every organization and professional must master.

Author : Amy Vatne Bintliff
Publisher : Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Alternative education
ISBN : 1433130726

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Re-engaging Disconnected Youth by Amy Vatne Bintliff Pdf

Re-engaging Disconnected Youth profiles a program that succeeds in doing so, one that can serve as a model for others. Drawing on Adult Transformative Learning Theory, the book is an in-depth, qualitative study of the ways the program transformed adult and youth perceptions of trust, connections, schooling and human rights.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : High school dropouts
ISBN : PSU:000065503942

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Disconnected and Disadvantaged Youth by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support Pdf

Author : Peter Smyth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351980883

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Working with High-Risk Youth by Peter Smyth Pdf

In the child welfare system some youth do well in their lives, but far too many do not experience positive outcomes by the time they are leaving government services. The youth often feel marginalized and that they were not involved in decisions about their own lives, leaving them with a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. This book focuses on high-risk youth - whose struggles include neglect and abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, the risk of being exploited, mental health issues, and the inability to self-regulate and trust - a population of youth that government child welfare services and community agencies struggle to serve adequately. The focus has traditionally been on punishment-consequence interventions and demanding compliance, but experience and research shows they can be better served through relationship-based practice incorporating harm reduction principles, resiliency and strength-based approaches, community collaboration, and an understanding that these youth typically come from experiences of early trauma impacting their brain development and their ability to form attachments. This book provides an overview of the Get Connected practice framework and philosophy, and provides strategies for engaging and working with the most disconnected, challenging, and troubled youth in society.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309490115

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The Promise of Adolescence by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Neurobiological and Socio-behavioral Science of Adolescent Development and Its Applications Pdf

Adolescenceâ€"beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€"is a critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop. These changes in brain structure, function, and connectivity mark adolescence as a period of opportunity to discover new vistas, to form relationships with peers and adults, and to explore one's developing identity. It is also a period of resilience that can ameliorate childhood setbacks and set the stage for a thriving trajectory over the life course. Because adolescents comprise nearly one-fourth of the entire U.S. population, the nation needs policies and practices that will better leverage these developmental opportunities to harness the promise of adolescenceâ€"rather than focusing myopically on containing its risks. This report examines the neurobiological and socio-behavioral science of adolescent development and outlines how this knowledge can be applied, both to promote adolescent well-being, resilience, and development, and to rectify structural barriers and inequalities in opportunity, enabling all adolescents to flourish.

Author : Orlando Patterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674967304

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The Cultural Matrix by Orlando Patterson Pdf

The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel an American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. This interdisciplinary work explains how a complex matrix of cultures influences black youth.

Author : Frank Ridzi,Chantal Stevens,Lyle Wray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031069406

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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators by Frank Ridzi,Chantal Stevens,Lyle Wray Pdf

This volume continues the tradition now established since 2006, of compiling excellent research into the practice and application of community indicators in a single source volume. It focuses on the theme of the Community Indicators Consortium 2020 Summit, as a significant venue for the advancement of the practice and theory of community indicators work. It covers the conference's theme of “community resilience”, which is the capacity of all of a community’s elements to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. In keeping with the practical, “best cases” emphasis of this book series, the editors incorporate a case-based approach to chapters discussing how specific indicators, indices or series of indicators can lead to better decisions and outcomes to help communities adapt and transform in the face of challenges, helping them prepare for both the expected and the unexpected to sustain and improve quality of life, including technology and open source approaches to data sharing and data-focussed collaboration; evolving approaches that use shared indicators to improve overall community well-being and quality of life; research related to community indicators and policy, application, research, and/or practice; and techniques and approaches to measure resilience. This volume is of interest to social scientists, management professionals, social workers and policy makers working on various aspects of community indicators of quality of life and well-being. Chapter “The Cost of Sea Level Rise for the Island Community of Vinalhaven, Maine: Spurring action through collaborative data analysis” is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see licence information in the chapters.

Author : Gregory Dublanc
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Unemployed youth
ISBN : 1608761355

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Disconnected Youth by Gregory Dublanc Pdf

Policymakers and youth advocates have begun to focus greater attention on young people who are not working or in school. Generally characterised as "disconnected", these youth may also lack strong social networks that provide assistance in the form of employment connections and other supports such as housing and financial assistance. Without attachment to work or school, disconnected youth may be vulnerable to experiencing negative outcomes as they transition to adulthood. Like the existing research, the CRS analysis finds that a greater share of female and minority youth are disconnected. However, the analysis evaluates some other characteristics that have not been widely studied in the existing research. For instance, compared to their peers in the general population, disconnected youth tend to have fewer years of education, and are more likely to live apart from their parents and to have children. Disconnected youth are also twice as likely to be poor than their connected peers. This book provides information about the characteristics of disconnected youth, and the circumstances in which they live. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

Author : Jonathan McKee
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310599876

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Connect by Jonathan McKee Pdf

"In an age where teenagers are deeply engaged in virtual communities and social networks, they’re still feeling alone and isolated. It may sound all too simple, but the truth is that you have the opportunity to make a profound impact on the lives of students with the simple act of spending time with them, one-on-one. Whether you’re a volunteer or the lead youth pastor, getting some students to open up and share their lives can be a challenge. In this practical book you’ll learn the importance of connecting with students on an individual basis and get helpful ideas on how to engage a variety of students in meaningful dialogue. You’ll explore and learn more about connecting with six different types of students, including: • The “No Way” Kid • The “Not Interested” Kid • The “Checking Things Out Kid” • The “Stagnant” Kid • The “Growing” Kid • The “Looking for Ministry” Kid Connect will walk you through the steps to lead you into relationships with students that go beyond the youth room and impact them into adulthood."

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1540 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000137276139

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2017 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050682892

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf