Hockey Is Not for Everyone, But It Could Be

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Victoria Kabetu ◽  
Ryan Snelgrove ◽  
Kimberly J. Lopez ◽  
Daniel Wigfield
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Policy Paper ◽  
Developing Strategies

Steve Kroger, president and COO of Hockey Canada, is contemplating how to attract and retain more young people who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in minor hockey (ages 4–18 years). Hockey Canada the governing association for amateur hockey in the country has created programs that make the sport accessible for more people to try, yet Steve recognizes there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to increase participation rates among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color athletes. Drawing on a policy paper for anti-racism in Canadian hockey, Steve tasks his team with developing strategies aimed at making the sport more inclusive and boosting participation.

ELECTION SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
The State ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
High Participation ◽  
Election System ◽  
The Republic

This article discusses the general characteristics of the electoral system of Kazakhstan by the example of elections of the President of the Republic, the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan and deputies of the Mazhilis. The features of dividing this system into majority and proportional are also disclosed. The article analyzes the features of the appointment and conduct of elections and the principles on which they are based. It is also shown how the active activity of the state in the field of legal education of young people and their familiarization with the electoral system affects the high participation rates of citizens in elections.

Advancing Urban Peace: Preventing Gun Violence and Healing Traumatized Youth

Youth Justice ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 147322542110201
Author(s):  
Jason Corburn ◽  
DeVone Boggan ◽  
Khaalid Muttaqi ◽  
Sam Vaughn ◽  
James Houston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Violence Reduction ◽  
Reduction Program ◽  
Trauma Informed

This descriptive article highlights the inner-practices of a trauma-informed, healing-centered, urban gun violence reduction program called Advance Peace. We find that the Advance Peace model uses a unique curriculum called the Peacemaker Fellowship, that offers intensive mentorship, caring, and ‘street love’ to youth at the center of gun violence. The Advance Peace approach is one public safety model that may help young people of color heal from the traumas that contribute to gun violence while also reducing gun crime in urban neighborhoods.

scholarly journals Intersectional Organizing and Educational Justice Movements: Strategies for Cross-Movement Solidarities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Warren ◽  
Andrew R. King ◽  
Bianca Ortiz-Wythe ◽  
Patricio Belloy ◽  
Jose Zapata Calderon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Educational Justice ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
Community Organizers ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Shared Understandings

This article explores intersectional organizing as a strategy to create solidarity across issues, organizations and communities to build a more united educational justice movement. By intersectional organizing, we mean an organizing strategy that centers the experiences and leadership of people who are affected by multiple forms of oppression. We conducted interviews with ten community organizers who engage parents and young people of color to address the profound inequities in public education. We found that the movement is largely siloed into separate issue-based campaigns, although there are promising examples that connect groups and issues. Organizers believe that intersectional organizing can support greater cross-movement solidarity especially when combined with other processes, including building deep relationships, developing conscious leadership with shared understandings of systemic oppression through political education, and building trust through demonstrated long-term commitments to solidarity in practice. Nevertheless, many warn against an “Oppression Olympics” that creates competition rather than solidarity.

LGBTQ+ Latino/a Young People’s Interpretations of Stigma and Mental Health: An Intersectional Minority Stress Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel M. Schmitz ◽  
Brandon Andrew Robinson ◽  
Jennifer Tabler ◽  
Brett Welch ◽  
Sidra Rafaqut
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Gender Policing ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
Social Prejudice

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ+) young people of color encounter interlocking systems of social prejudice and discrimination. However, little is understood about how subjective meanings of perceived structural stigma associated with multiple marginalized social statuses influence mental health. We document how perceived stigma can shape mental health inequalities among multiply marginalized individuals if they also encounter stigmatizing societal frameworks. Data come from in-depth interviews with 41 LGBTQ+ Latino/a young adults in the Rio Grande Valley collected from 2016 to 2017. Utilizing an intersectional minority stress framework, we qualitatively examine how young people conceptualize structural stigma, their multiple social locations (e.g., sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, age), and their mental health. Findings highlight how LGBTQ+ Latino/a young adults experience structural racism, gender policing, and anti-LGBTQ+ religious messages in relation to their mental health. This study showcases the importance of an intersectional minority stress framework for documenting processes that can shape mental health inequalities.

scholarly journals Death by Numbers: Why Evolving Standards Compel Extending Roper’s Categorical Ban Against Executing Juveniles From 18 to 21

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Blume ◽  
Hannah Freedman ◽  
Lindsey Vann ◽  
Amelia C. Hritz
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Current State ◽  
Jury Verdicts ◽  
Death Sentences ◽  
Eighth Amendment ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Juvenile Sentencing

Texas Law Review, ForthcomingNearly fifteen years ago, the Supreme Court held in Roper v. Simmons that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of people who were under 18 at the time of their offenses. The Court justified the line it drew based on legislative enactments, jury verdicts, and neuroscience. In the intervening years, however, much has changed in juvenile sentencing jurisprudence, the legal treatment of young people, and neuroscience. These changes beg the question: Why 18? Is the bright-line rule that the Court announced in Roper still constitutionally valid or do the changes since 2005 now point to a new cutoff at 21? To answer those questions, this Article considers post-Roper developments in the relevant domains to make the case that the 18-year-old constitutional line should be extended to age 21. It does so by applying the Supreme Court’s evolving-standards-of-decency methodology. Specifically, the Article examines all death sentences and executions imposed in the United States post-Roper and looks at the current state of neuroscientific research that the Court found compelling when it decided Roper. Two predominant trends emerge. First, there is a national consensus against executing people under 21. This consensus comports with what new developments in neuroscience have made clear: people under 21 have brains that look and behave like the brains of younger teenagers, not like adult brains. Second, young people of color are disproportionately sentenced to die — even more so than adult capital defendants. The role of race is amplified when the victim is white. These trends confirm that the logic that compelled the Court to ban executions of people under 18 extends to people under 21.

The School-to-Prison Pipeline and the Pipeline Population

2016 ◽  
pp. 126-142
Author(s):  
Shannon Snapp ◽  
Adela C. Licona
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Youth With Disabilities ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
School Practices ◽  
School To Prison Pipeline

The school-to-prison pipeline is a phenomenon that is gaining visibility, yet there is little scholarship that brings together academic, activist, and legal literatures to describe and trouble it. Young people of color, urban poor youth, and youth with disabilities overpopulate this pipeline. There is growing evidence that the pipeline is further populated by LGBTQ youth, gender-nonconforming youth, and youth at the intersection of all of these social locations. In this chapter, the authors work across disciplinary locations to identify school practices and policies that produce what they term the pipeline population. They identify efforts currently under way and call for cross-coalitional strategies to intervene in the pipeline’s production. This chapter serves as a resource for those working within and across academic and nonacademic contexts to better understand, analyze, and theorize the production of the pipeline population and, ultimately, to dismantle the pipeline.

scholarly journals Nurturing the next Canadian generation: The case for labour market research

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Kevin McQuillan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Le Canada

As rates of population and labour force growth slow in Canada, the country faces important challenges in promoting economic growth and sustaining prosperity. Among the most important public issues are increasing labour force participation rates among groups with low or declining rates of work and reforming education to better prepare graduates for the jobs of the new economy. At the same time, Canada needs to respond to the shifting geography of work. The concentration of employment in a limited number of major urban centres is driving young people to seek work in high-cost cities, while many smaller cities and regions face the prospect of economic and demographic decline.Alors que les taux de population et la croissance de la population active ralentissent au Canada, le pays devra relever d’importants défis pour promouvoir la croissance économique et maintenir la prospérité. Les plus importantes questions d’ordre public porteront, entre autres, sur le taux de participation, au sein de la population active, de groupes présentant des taux d’emploi faibles ou en déclin et la réforme de l’éducation afin de mieux préparer les diplômés aux emplois de la nouvelle économie. Le Canada doit, en même temps, aborder la géographie changeante du travail. La concentration des emplois dans quelques grands centres urbains pousse les jeunes à chercher du travail dans les villes où le coût est élevé, alors que les villes plus petites et les régions sont confrontées au déclin économique et démographique.Mots-clés : population et environnement; climat; utilisation d’énergie; pointe de population

Structured Mentoring: Career and Transition Support: Service for Girls

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary McMahon ◽  
Brigid Limerick ◽  
Jan Gillies
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Guidance Intervention ◽  
The World ◽  
Transition Support

Increased recognition of the complexity of the world of work into which our young people are entering has resulted in calls for greater provision of career and transition support. In addition, concerns have been expressed about girls' low participation rates in growth industries such as retailing and communications/information technology. The present paper describes a short-term mentoring program that focused specifically on these two issues, namely the provision of career and transition support for young people and the promotion of growth industries to girls. The findings indicated that mentoring may be an effective career guidance intervention in schools and that it is an appropriate intervention for promoting career exploration for girls.

Integrating positive youth development and clinical care to enhance high school achievement for young people of color

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyrone Morris Parchment ◽  
Jayson Jones ◽  
Zoila Del-Villar ◽  
Latoya Small ◽  
Mary McKay
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
High School Achievement

Purpose – High school completion is one of the strongest predictors of health and well-being. There is increased public attention on the challenges faced by young people of color and educational achievement. In particular, young men of color must navigate myriad stressors which often undermine their mental health, as well as their academic performance, including likelihood of graduation from high school that fare worse in academic outcomes than their female counterparts. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of Step-Up, a positive youth development and mental health promotion program, created in collaboration with young people of color on their high school achievement as measured by grade point average (GPA). Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory pre-post study employed multivariate analysis of data drawn from a sample of 212 youth of color to examine student’s GPA before their involvement in Step-Up and the number of Step-Up groups they attend in the first year could improve their high school achievement. Findings – Results revealed an association between students participation in Step-Up, specifically having at least ten life skills group contacts, and significant increases in GPA. Research limitations/implications – High school achievement is measured by GPA, which might not be a clear indication of achievement since grades are not truly comparable across schools. The exploratory pre-post research design of this study, and the lack of control group, limits any references to causality but the descriptive changes in GPA demonstrate a statistical significance of Step-Up group participation and improved high school achievement. A potential next step is to design an experimental study that includes psychosocial and developmental mechanisms while examining the treatment effect of Step-Up vs students receiving standard of care. Practical implications – Programs that aid young people of color in increasing their GPA should acknowledge the multitude of stressors that youth in urban environments encounter by creating interventions targeting multiple ecological contexts. These preliminary analyses suggest how programmatic supports that are collaboratively designed with youth, such as Step-Up, may yield promising results in improving young people of color high school achievement. Social implications – To better serve adolescents experiencing serious academic and behavioral health challenges, there needs to be programs that offer intensive, short-term mental health support in school settings. Given the widespread risk factors that adolescents and particularly young men of color are facing, Step-Up is informed by both the developmental assets framework and the social development model and aims to provide youth with opportunities for prosocial interactions and additional resources to combat multiple stressors. Since successful completion of high school is associated with better outcomes as young people transition to adulthood, programs that are developmentally timed to allow for an optimal protective factor during the high school years is necessary. Originality/value – This research contributes to the knowledge base of the importance of providing mental health supports in school settings and may contribute to studies examining the academic achievement of young people of color in school settings.

“We the People”: Epistemological Moves Through Cultural Praxis

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Alberto Quijada Cerecer ◽  
Caitlin Cahill ◽  
Yvette Sonia González Coronado ◽  
Jarred Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
Shared Context

How do young people embody activism and artistic praxis as they commit to community-based participatory action research for social change? We consider how the arts might provide a social and shared context for challenging racialized characterizations. Our analysis draws upon arts-based participatory action research projects conducted by the Mestizo Arts & Activism Collective ( https://maacollective.org ), a social justice think tank led by the urgent concerns of young people of color. Specifically, we engage the arts as integral to the research process—an epistemological move that opens up new ways of understanding and knowing our world and representing ourselves.

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