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Garcia, Jonathan; Vargas, Nancy; de la Torre, Cynthia; Magana Alvarez, Mario; Clark, Jesse Lawton – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Objectives: Latinos are disproportionately vulnerable to severe COVID-19 due to workplace exposure, multigenerational households, and existing health disparities. Rolling out COVID-19 vaccines among vulnerable Latinos is critical to address disparities. This study explores vaccine perceptions of Latino families to inform culturally centered…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Family Attitudes, Mothers, Adolescents
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López-Cevallos, Daniel F.; Young, Amy W.; Gómez-Diazgranados, Ana; Reyes, Yuridia; García, José R.; Sherman, Jeff; Galaviz-Yap, Gina – Journal of Extension, 2020
Research has shown that more efforts are needed to increase high school completion and postsecondary enrollment among Latino youths. However, little is known regarding efforts that engage both Latino youths and their parents. To address this gap, we surveyed Juntos Oregon participants to examine the school and community context Latino youths and…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Hispanic Americans, Youth, Program Effectiveness
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Galloway, Mollie K.; Ishimaru, Ann M.; Larson, Rob – Journal of School Leadership, 2015
Research has begun to articulate actions of social justice leaders, but as a field we still know little about how a broad range of leaders view and enact equitable practice. In this study, we use a set of "leadership for equity" rubrics to examine how 114 school and district leaders rated and provided evidence of equitable or inequitable…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Justice, Administrator Attitudes, Instructional Leadership
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Glass, Nancy; Perrin, Nancy; Hanson, Ginger; Mankowski, Eric; Bloom, Tina; Campbell, Jacquelyn – Journal of Community Psychology, 2009
This study builds on the existing knowledge of risk factors for lethal intimate partner violence (IPV) and typologies of IPV abusers by exploring patterns of abusive partners' behaviors among known risk factors for intimate partner femicide (i.e., murder of women) and determines if groups of survivors with similar patterns of abusive behaviors…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Harassment, Females, Hispanic Americans
Barton William H.; Butts, Jeffrey A. – Chapin Hall Center for Children, 2008
This report describes the results of an exploratory study of juvenile justice programs where managers and practitioners are attempting to build youth interventions with strength-based, positive youth development principles. Previous researchers have not adequately documented how such reforms take place, let alone whether they produce effective…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Juvenile Justice, Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness