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Impacts on Youth when Involved in Sports Programs: Life-Long Benefits
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At Remember Youth Fund, we strive to engage adolescent individuals in after-school programs, ranging from inspirational art clubs to physical sporting activities. Both programs benefit students in ways that go deeper than creating beautiful portraits or scoring a winning goal. Specifically, research shows that increased activity in sports grants a lifetime's worth of advantages. According …
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More Than Just Violence Prevention: Why After School Programs are Imperative
From the YMCA of Cincinnati, Ohio: "REASONS TO JOIN AN AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM There are endless reasons to join an afterschool program. They present a healthy and safe environment with educational resources so students can thrive. They also provide a community of friends and a support system that will not let them falter or fail. These …
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Catching up: how do we reach out to the youth left behind by the impacts of COVID-19?
Whilst variants of COVID-19 continue to mutate and spread, countries with higher levels of vaccination (predominantly the more economically developed countries) are 'opening up'. What does it mean to open up? Weddings are back on with larger guest counts, domestic tourism is soaring, and in some places schools can drop mask mandates and distancing, to …
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High rates of Black children Detained in Maryland
Inside one of Maryland's Correctional facilities During a momentously challenging period in the USA, there are various epidemics that began long before 2020. One such epidemic is the US prison (or Corrections) system, which has seen years of mass incarceration, privatisation, scandals of prisoners working at near-slavery pay rates and minority groups being vastly over-represented …
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Beyond Masks: the impact of COVID-19 on the young
COVID-19 is often thought of as disproportionately affecting the elderly. Medically speaking, that is accurate: but there are of course wider effects that are intergenerational. There are also effects of the pandemic, and particularly of the incurring lockdowns, which disproportionately affect the young. What are the effects of COVID-19 on children and adolescents? In a …
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Leading Community-Based Alternative to Youth Incarceration/Institutionalization Shares Blueprint for Success
At age 16, Ellana Watson, whose mother battled mental illness, was mourning the death of the grandmother who raised her when a school fight led to an expulsion, arrest and charges of assaulting a police officer. Today, Watson is working, completing community college and volunteers in her spare time. She said Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), …
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An initiative guarantees access to justice from the Government
Located in Misiones, Argentina, the Secretariat of Access to Justice, Human Rights and Family Violence has been operating since 2010. Judicial dependence has the main function of assisting victims of crime. When talking about victim assistance at this point everything is included. From listening, first of all, to the knowledge of the status of the …
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"This is one way to build a safe community"
New program for Federal Way athletes aims to build character, prevent violence. Advancing As Leaders and Coaching Boys Into Men offer weekly discussions on understanding consent, healthy relationships and more. Source: www.federalwaymirror.com/sports/new-program-for-federal-way-athletes-aims-to-build-character-prevent-violence/
Redefining public safety. Oakland's Restorative-Justice Hub
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There are more than 3,000 local jails in the United States and another few thousand courthouses. In some people's eyes, these institutions are monuments to public safety; to others, they represent the forces driving mass incarceration. Source: www.citylab.com/design/2019/08/oakland-incarceration-restorative-justice-job-training/595198/
Event: An international conference on Access to Justice
In June 2019, the Rule of Law Collaborative partnered with the Secretariat of the g7+ (a voluntary alliance of 20 countries that are engaged in or recently emerged from conflict) to host an international conference on Access to Justice for All in Conflict-Affected Countries. The ministers of justice or attorneys general from most g7+ member states …
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RYF Mission
Our mission is to enhance public, private, civil society and academic partnerships of entities from across the world to reduce youth violence and crime and to strengthen youth access to justice in the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia.
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