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Direct linkPitzel, Allyson; Kearley, Alison; Jolivette, Kristine; Sanders, Sara – Journal of Correctional Education, 2021
Mentoring programs for incarcerated youth have shown promising outcomes with researchers suggesting that this population can benefit from mentoring relationships. A mentor provides guidance and support to youthful offenders. Having a caring adult involved in the life of a youth at risk may help them overcome adversity and develop the skills…
Descriptors: Mentors, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
McMullan, Crissie; Lucas, Erin; Pokawa, Hindolo – ZERO TO THREE, 2020
Child- and family-serving programs in community-based settings wield tremendous power for improving the lives of infants and toddlers. In this article, three authors, from Ohio, Montana, and Sierra Leone, describe the principles of adaptive leadership and will share their real-world applications. Their stories explore critical questions for…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Innovation, Infants, Toddlers
Smith, Hayley C.; Batten, Rachel; McDonald, Helen; Taylor, Myra F. – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
A broad range of initiatives including early intervention programmes have been implemented in Australia to assist disadvantaged and at-risk Indigenous parents and children. This qualitative exemplar case study details the perspectives of caregivers and service providers of one such early learning intervention programme situated within the remote…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Child Caregivers, Preschool Education, School Readiness
Download full textSchmid, Evi – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Context: Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in reducing early leaving from education and training, and integrating youth at risk in upper secondary education. To ensure that more young people complete upper secondary education, the OECD suggests designing interventions that address the specific needs of youth at risk such as…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, At Risk Persons, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Gómez-Pérez, M. Mar; Calero, M. Dolores; Mata, Sara – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
Growing up in a high family risk (HFR) environment is accompanied by difficulties in executive functions (EFs) and interpersonal skills (IS) that may persist into adulthood. Because preadolescence is a critical period, this study will assess a multicomponent mediational intervention program, to determine the possibility of improving these skills.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Intervention, Preadolescents, Interpersonal Competence
Henkle, Jennifer E.; Dunlap, Jill; Tabachnick, Joan – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2020
This report presents findings from a national survey to ascertain the prevalence of respondent services on college and university campuses, the institutional positionality of those services, and how those support services operate. A joint project of NASPA and the University of Kentucky College of Education, this research provides a landscape view…
Descriptors: Rape, Universities, National Surveys, Campuses
Landry, Susan H.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Taylor, Heather B.; Swank, Paul R.; Williams, Jeffrey M.; Assel, Michael; Crawford, April; Huang, Weihua; Clancy-Menchetti, Jeanine; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Phillips, Beth M.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; de Viliers, Jill; de Viliers, Peter; Barnes, Marcia; Starkey, Prentice; Klein, Alice – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Despite reports of positive effects of high-quality child care, few experimental studies have examined the process of improving low-quality center-based care for toddler-age children. In this article, we report intervention effects on child care teachers' behaviors and children's social, social-emotional classroom activities (RECC).…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, At Risk Persons, Toddlers
Bullock, Lyndal M.; Zolkoski, Staci M.; Estes, Mary Bailey – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2015
In this paper, we review the factors that impact the mental health of children and youth, highlight the magnitude of the mental health problem based on data from selected countries, emphasise the influence that culture has on the development of children and youth, and delineate several strategies and programmes proven to be effective when working…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Needs, Mental Disorders, Cultural Influences
Parker, Andrew; Morgan, Haydn; Farooq, Samaya; Moreland, Ben; Pitchford, Andy – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
Numerous sport-based interventions exist which target marginalised or 'at-risk' young people with the intention of enabling some form of social change for programme participants. Very often, the objective of such interventions is the acquisition and development of qualities associated with 'good citizenship'. However, critical scholars have noted…
Descriptors: Social Change, Disadvantaged Youth, Social Control, Team Sports
Pini, Barbara; Mills, Martin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The majority of the still limited literature on education in non-metropolitan areas adopts an understanding of rurality as a fixed and known geographic entity. This paper departs from such a functionalist perspective to explore how rurality is constructed in a programme for at-risk teenagers in remote Australia. Drawing on a range of texts about…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Foreign Countries, At Risk Persons, Correlation
Johnson, Shannon K.; Velasquez, Mary M.; von Sternberg, Kirk – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Examples of behavioral interventions that are efficacious in the research setting as well as practical and translatable to the "real-world" are critically needed as models for social work researchers and clinicians. This article presents the Changing High-Risk Alcohol Use and Improving Contraception Effectiveness Study (CHOICES)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Alcohol Abuse, Prenatal Influences, Prevention
Redwood, Diana; Provost, Ellen; Lopez, Ellen D. S.; Skewes, Monica; Johnson, Rhonda; Christensen, Claudia; Sacco, Frank; Haverkamp, Donald – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
This article presents the results of a process evaluation of the Alaska Native (AN) Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Family Outreach Program, which encourages CRC screening among AN first-degree relatives (i.e., parents, siblings, adult children; hereafter referred to as relatives) of CRC patients. Among AN people incidence and death rates from CRC are the…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Cancer, Outreach Programs, Screening Tests
Hastie, Peter A.; Rudisill, Mary E.; Boyd, Korey – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Background: Previous studies of mastery motivational climates within physical education have reported that providing students with opportunities to become self-directed leads to a number of positive outcomes, including skill attainment and increased perceptions of ability. Nonetheless, within all of these studies, there has been no account of the…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Physical Education, Child Care Centers, At Risk Persons
Marlowe, Jay M.; Pearl, Nick L.; Marlowe, Mike J. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
Brendtro, Brokenleg, and Van Bockern (2002) describe the Circle of Courage model for creating environments in which all children can thrive. This approach blends youth developmental research, the wisdom of pioneer workers, and Native American philosophies of child care. This model for reclaiming youth at risk posits four elements as essential for…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Safety, American Indians, Urban Youth
Jungmann, Tanja; Ziert, Yvonne; Kurtz, Vivien; Brand, Tilman – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2009
Rigorously evaluated prenatal and infancy home visitation programs for families at risk have proven to effectively prevent the development of early onset and later conduct problems. the German pilot project "Pro Kind" is an adaptation of the US evidence-based Nurse-Family Partnership program. It has been evaluated in a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Child Development, Longitudinal Studies, Pregnancy
