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Assessing Rural Communities' Readiness to Prevent Prescription Drug Misuse among High School Student
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Direct linkPeña-Purcell, Ninfa; Abdoh, Rashid; Hong, Se-Jung; Collins, David; Johnson, Knowlton – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2021
The Community Readiness Model (CRM) developed and validated by the Tri-Ethnic Center was adapted to identify at-risk communities in six rural Texas counties. Five to six key informants per county were recruited from a variety of community sectors to participate in phone interviews. Paired scorers independently analyzed individual interview…
Descriptors: Models, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Rural Areas
Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan – MIT Press, 2017
It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. In this book, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues…
Descriptors: Internet, Barriers, Low Income Groups, High Schools
Van Ouytsel, Joris; Torres, Elizabeth; Choi, Hye Jeong; Ponnet, Koen; Walrave, Michel; Temple, Jeff R. – Journal of School Nursing, 2017
Dating violence is an important public health concern and is considered to be a form of school violence. While digital technologies have enabled perpetrators of dating violence to target their victims online (cyber dating abuse), little is known about how this form of perpetration relates to specific adolescent risk behaviors. This brief research…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Sexuality, Bullying, Behavior Problems
Download full textCunningham, Keith Alan – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
This critical policy ethnography analyzes the McKinney-Vento Act and how the policy is put into practice at a school district within Central Texas. Data comes from conversations with educators occupying key roles within the McKinney-Vento operational bureaucracy at the school district and the researcher's experience as an educator and volunteer at…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Federal Legislation, School Districts, Educational Policy
Fernandez, Chris; Fletcher, Carla; Klepfer, Kasey – TG (Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation), 2016
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TG) provides critical support to schools, students, and borrowers at every stage of the federal student aid process--from providing information on how to pay for a higher education including financial aid options, to facilitating successful loan repayment after graduation. This 2016 issue of "State…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Higher Education, Population Trends
Stovitz, Steven D.; Steffen, Lyn M.; Boostrom, Ardys – Journal of School Health, 2008
Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between weight status and participation in physical activity (PA) among Hispanic and non-Hispanic white (NHW) adolescent boys and girls. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, height and weight were measured and a modified 2001 Youth Risk Behavior Survey was administered to 1302…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Obesity, Team Sports, Physical Activities
