Give a Boost to Our Youth

Nakia Bracey
EDU 644 Child & Family Welfare
Instructor: Suhad Sadik
10/26/2015

Nakias Vision for Our YOUTH

Nakia Bracey is an environmental youth consultant that analyzes and
creates safe and comfortable environments for our youth and families
who are at-risk. In order for our youth to grow and become leaders for
the generations to come, positive leaders and professionals have to
take time to teach our youth how to become mature individuals that
are responsible and willing to take care of our communities. Children
need role-models who care about their future, provide opportunities for
them to learn, and push for high expectations within them. Children
are in need for guidance and professionals and leaders need to take
time and lead our children along with teaming up with the parents.
These children will be ready to train more children who are growing
and maturing behind them. Together we can create and maintain safe
environments for our children and our community.

Youth At-Risk
Abuse
Delinquency
Poor school
attendance
Exposure to
Violence

Family
perplexities
Availability to
drugs and alcohol
Homelessness
Poverty

At-Risk Attitudes
Childrenin"lowfit"homesdemonstratedpoorerclassroom
behaviorandachievement (Morrison, & Cosden, 1997, p. 7).

Antisocial
Negative

behaviors
self-image

Temperament
Schoolfailureisa
Learning disabilities

Poor academic
success

School Dropouts
Negative
peerinfluence

strongpredictoroflaterdelinquency (Morrison,
&
Cosden, 1997, p. 9).

Anxiety and
depression

When students fall behind at school it may be difficult,

perhaps impossible, to make up lost ground and catch

Reaching Out to Our Youth

Involve Parents

students do better when parents are involved in their

education and stress the importance of high school success.

Providing opportunities like..

Summer School

Programs

Make time

Offering on-line and blended learning

options is a way to meet flexible scheduling goals and help students who are overaged and under-credited catch up.

What Can We Do?

Interve
ne

HELP

Encourage
positiverelationshipswithsignificantadultsan
dsupportiveschoolenvironments (Morrison, &
Cosden, 1997, p. 2).

Providenewopportunitiesf

orstudents
Share Accep
Listen
t
Show support

Share and Play

What can YOU offer to
our youth?

How can YOU be a rolemodel?

Jump once and clap twice for each act of

service you can incorporate towards our youth.

Educators learn how other

communities are successfully
tackling their attendance and
dropout problems, receive guidance
in researching their own state laws
and regulations and begin thinking
about ways to evaluate their
efforts (n.d.).

Volunteer within your community to connect with the youth

(school, church, library, etc.? Jumps___ Claps___

Donate to a homeless family and/or child? Jumps__ Claps__

Listen to stories of the life of at-risk children? Jumps__ Claps__

There were 678,932 victims of

child abuse and neglect reported to
Child Protective Services (CPS) in
2013 (2014).
About 1,520 children died from
abuse and neglect in 2013 (2014).

Show that you care. Jumps__ Claps__

Save a life by putting in 30 minutes of your time into our

youth. Jumps___ Claps___
Total: Jumps____ Claps___

References

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2014).

Child maltreatment prevention. Retrieved from
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childmaltreatment

Morrison, G., & Cosden, M. (1997).

Risk, resilience, and adjustment of individuals with learning disabilitie
s
. Learning Disability Quarterly, 20, 43-60. Retrieved from
http://www.ldonline.org/article/6174/

National Center for School Engagement

(http://schoolengagement.org)

National Center for School Engagement. (n.d.). Serving at-risk youth.

Retrieved from http://schoolengagement.org/school-engagementservices/at-risk-youth