The aim of the study is to identify the role that educational youth centers can play in the development of some sports activities and serving the environment, and the role of the youth educational ...centers in activating sports activities to serve the environment and increase environmental awareness, in addition to trying to identify the most important difficulties facing youth centers in activating sports and environmental activities. The researchers used the descriptive method in the survey manner to suit the nature of the study. The study population is affiliated with the youth centers in the city of Ma'an (1235) male and (572) females from (10) centers in Ma'an city. The study sample consisted of (340) male and female participants in the youth centers in Ma'an. The sample was 19% of the total study population, and was chosen randomly. The results showed that the role played by the youth centers in relation to environmental service activities and the formation of environmental awareness came to a medium degree. The role played by youth centers in activating sport activities was high. The results showed that the role of youth educational centers in activating sports activities to environmental service activities and the formation of environmental awareness came to a medium degree. The results showed that the most important difficulties faced by the youth centers in activating sports activities and the environment were the weakness of the material resources and the weakness of the media. The study recommended that the Ministry of Youth must provide financial support to youth centers so that they can promote their activities for youth and that the media must cover the topics related to youth centers and their role in supporting youth and preserving the environment. هدفت الدراسة التعرف إلى الدور الذي يمكن أن تقوم به مراكز الشباب التربوية لتنمية بعض الأنشطة الرياضية وخدمة البيئة، ودور مراكز الشباب التربوية في تفعيل بعض الأنشطة الرياضية لخدمة البيئة وزيادة الوعي البيئي، بالأضافة إلى محاولة التعرف إلى أهم الصعوبات التي تواجه مراكز الشباب في تفعيل بعض الأنشطة الرياضية والبيئية. استخدم الباحثان المنهج الوصفي بالإسلوب المسحي وذلك لملائمته طبيعة الدراسة، تكون مجتمع الدراسة من المنتسبين لمراكز الشباب في مدينة معان والبالغ عددهم (1235) ذكر و(572) انثى من (10) مراكز في مدينة معان. تكونت عينة الدراسة من المنتسبين لمراكز الشباب في مدينة معان، والبالغ عددهم (340) منتسب (ذكور، إناث) تم اختيارهم بالطريقة العشوائية وتمثل العينة ما نسبتة (19%) من مجتمع الدراسة الكلي. توصلت النتائج إلى أنّ الدور الذي تقوم به مراكز الشباب فيما يتعلق بنشاطات خدمة البيئة وتشكيل الوعي البيئي جاء بدرجة متوسطة، وأن الدور الذي تقوم به مراكز الشباب فيما يتعلق بتفعيل بعض الأنشطة الرياضية فقد جاء بمستوى مرتفع، كما بينت النتائج أنّ دور مراكز الشباب التربوية في تفعيل بعض الأنشطة الرياضية لخدمة البيئة وزيادة الوعي البيئي جاءت بمستوى متوسط، وأظهرت النتائج أن أهم الصعوبات التي تواجه مراكز الشباب في تفعيل بعض الأنشطة الرياضية والبيئة كانت ضعف الامكانات المادية وضعف وسائل الاعلام، أوصت الدراسة بان تقوم وزارة الشباب بتقديم الدعم المالي لمراكز الشباب لتستطيع النهوض بأنشطتها المقدمة للشباب، وأن تقوم وسائل الإعلام بتغطية الموضوعات المتعلقة بمراكز الشباب ودورها في دعم الشباب والمحافظة على البيئة.
In this article, we investigate the discursive context of community-based youth centers to critically interrogate ideas and practices concerning leisure, youth, and youth centers. Using publicly ...available documents and data collected with youth at two community-based youth centers, we ask, what is the "good"' they do for young people, and how do young people negotiate these discourses? We argue that youth centers operate in a discursive tension, constructed as a place to change by the (organizational) bodies that establish them, and a place to chill by the (youth) bodies that use them. We trace how these discourses entered into the everyday lived contexts of youth centers, including their program logics, measures of success, and constructions of youthful subjectivities. We close with a discussion of the implications of the research in terms of how youth and recreation practitioners might use youth centers to support young people's leisure.
Food education has become an umbrella term covering various understandings of our relationship with food, originating from diverse research contexts. There is often the need to form a "holistic" ...understanding of what food education is and what it does. In this article, we explore a holistic approach to food education and how an informal learning environment can promote and contribute toward a holistic approach to food education. We conducted our study at four youth centers in Finland. The data were collected from seven focus groups of young people who took part in group discussions and whom we observed. We analyzed our data using content analysis. The young people developed food-related skills when discussing different food choices, planning meals, preparing food, and eating together. They evaluated their skills and talked about the kinds of food they made and why. They displayed "holistic thinking:" they created common meanings for food and considered issues related to the food system and environment. Our results indicate that informal settings comprise an important dimension of a holistic approach to food education. To improve food education in the future, we need not only a holistic approach, but also a more thorough understanding of its meanings and dimensions.
In this work, we attempt to examine the role of strategies like arts sponsorship and culturalism in the solution of immigrant youth issues around a specific immigrant place. This is a case study that ...focuses on the NaunynRitze Youth Centre in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which was presented as a successful example by policy makers and the public in the 1990s when the footsteps of the crisis of multiculturalism had begun to be heard in Germany. Our research shows that the social engineering strategies shaped around a multikulti production base are not permanent or sustainable as long as these institutions are also given the responsibility of eliminating the cycle of crime and violence in addition to promote individual artistic development and subcultural entities. As long as political figures and the public opinion continue to generally see the immigrant youth as a danger to the secure and untarnished development of society, it does not appear possible for the multiculturalism and the immigrant youth work system to develop.
Context
Conference retranscription “Living in Northern Quebec,” special session “Arctic Housing and Community Planning” organized by Mylène Riva and Geneviève Vachon. Arctic Change 2017 Conference, ...Quebec City, Convention Centre, December 14th, 2017.
El artículo que se presenta a continuación tiene por objeto identificar y analizar los criterios y estándares más relevantes del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos que fundan el derecho a ...un tratamiento especial en la ejecución de la sanción privativa de libertad juvenil respecto de los adultos. El artículo profundiza en los corolarios concretos que se desprenden de la necesidad de una ejecución especializada de jóvenes en la regulación de las etapas y garantías de la ejecución de la sanción de encierro juvenil establecidas en favor de los menores. Para ello, se analiza primeramente la forma en que la protección reforzada de los menores presos es reconocida por el corpus juris del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos (la legislación, doctrina y jurisprudencia internacional), concluyendo que tiene un reconocimiento expreso. Posteriormente, se explica que esa protección reforzada exige diferencias precisas respecto al tratamiento de adultos presos que pueden ser sistematizadas en cinco ejes, que son objeto de análisis pormenorizado: orientación de la ejecución de la sanción privativa de libertad juvenil, condiciones arcelarias, régimen penitenciario, buen orden y mecanismos de control.
Who are the young people reached by peer education programs and/or by youth centers? The present study intends to better know about the activities of the peer educators who are involved in ...organizations that promote reproductive health information and services in three West African countries. A special research tool was created to collect data to evaluate the composition and characteristics of the populations that such programs reach; therefore, to evaluate the populations left behind. We found that the typical profile of individuals in contact with peer educators or attending youth centers tended to be males aged 15 and more, schooled or highly educated, never married, and living in urban areas. We also found a relationship between peer educators' and peers' socio-demographic characteristics in rural Burkina Faso and urban Guinea Bissau. Finally, the main topics discussed included HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, but omitting other aspects of sexual and reproductive health. Quels sont les jeunes que les programmes d'éducation par les pairs et/ou les maisons de jeunes réussissent à atteindre? La présente étude vise à mieux connaître les activités des pairs éducateurs impliqués dans les organisations qui font la promotion de l'information et des services en santé reproductive dans trois pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Nous avons créé un outil de recherche original qui nous a permis de collecter les données destinées à l'évaluation de la composition et des caractéristiques des populations qui participent à ces programmes, et par déduction de celles des populations qui sont laissées pour compte. Nous trouvons que le profil le plus commun des individus qui sont en contact avec les pairs éducateurs ou qui fréquentent les maisons de jeunes sont des garçons âgés de 15 ans et plus, scolarisés ou de niveau scolaire primaire ou plus, jamais mariés, et résidant en milieu urbain. De plus, nos résultats révèlent l'existence d'une relation entre les caractéristiques socio-démographiques des pairs éducateurs et des jeunes en milieu rural burkinabè et en milieu urbain en Guinée-Bissau. Enfin, les principaux sujets de discussion concernent le VIH/Sida et les maladies sexuellement transmissibles, mais les autres aspects de la santé sexuelle et reproductive sont souvent omis.
Parents of AHEC Boyd, Michelle
Journal of best practices in health professions diversity,
10/2017, Volume:
10, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The Charlotte Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is part of the North Carolina AHEC and hosts programs to recruit underrepresented minority students and students who are economically/educationally ...disadvantaged into health careers. One of such programs is the HEROES Health Career Connection: A Teen Health Career Club. This monthly program was established in 2006 and has grown to serve approximately 100 middle and high school students annually. While we were effectively reaching these students, we were eliminating one very influential piece of the minority child career decision-making process: the parent. This led to the implementation of the Parents of AHEC Association, which has been an integral part of our health careers program since 2008. Their participation in our monthly health career club has enhanced our program with tremendous results. Students with parents who are involved in our program, on average, have better program attendance, with overall completion rates increasing from 75 percent to 96 percent between 2006 and 2016. Furthermore, program applications have increased, forcing our program to grow from 65 for 2006-2007 to 102 for 2016-2017, an increase of 56.9 percent. Students are also more engaged in the program activities, with their parents being better informed about best practices for helping their children reach their health career goals, as they have formed an informal information-sharing network and friendships. Involving disadvantaged teenagers in health clubs with parents' participation can increase interest in health career options among minority youths and help to diversify the health professions. The findings were presented at the 2017 North Carolina Health Professions Diversity Conference. Keywords * Area Health Education Center * careers * health careers * parental involvement * teens * youth parents
Growing Up Queer Robertson, Mary
2018, 2018-11-27, Volume:
3
eBook
LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today
Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three ...years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses on the voices and stories of youths themselves in order to show how young people understand their sexual and gender identities, their interest in queer media, and the role that family plays in their lives.
The young people who participated in this research are among the first generation to embrace queer identities as children and adolescents. This groundbreaking and timely consideration of queer identity demonstrates how sexual and gender identities are formed through complicated, ambivalent processes as opposed to being natural characteristics that one is born with. In addition to showing how youth understand their identities, Growing Up Queer describes how young people navigate queerness within a culture where being gay is the “new normal.” Using Sara Ahmed’s concept of queer orientation, Robertson argues that being queer is not just about one’s sexual and/or gender identity, but is understood through intersecting identities including race, class, ability, and more. By showing how society accepts some kinds of LGBTQ-identified people while rejecting others, Growing Up Queer provides evidence of queerness as a site of social inequality. The book moves beyond an oversimplified examination of teenage sexuality and shows, through the voices of young people themselves, the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer adolescence.
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