Minority Adolescents

Along with that, racial identity is another big contributor to the degradation of African American’s youth mental health, as a weak racial identity results in poorly mishandled ways of coping with racism and stress. African American students as early as middle school engage in introspection of their racial identity, where they begin to discover who they are and the negative stereotypes surrounding their identity (Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, 2007, p.256). The results of a study of 297 African American adolescents by McCreary, Slavin, and Berry found that a strong pride in racial identity was important in handling stress in a positive manner and decreasing poor mental health (Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, 2007, p.256). Students were less likely to internalize negative racial stereotypes that devalue their worth and build resistance towards it. If not, students were more susceptible to succumbing to stereotype threat, racial bias, and a negative self-fulfilling prophecy that could alter their well-being and threaten their mental health. Chronic exposure to this can severely damage African Americans adolescents’ mental health, which is evident by their mental withdrawal in school and loss of interest or motivation to achieve academic success.

The data will be analyzed to identify any demographic trends. Socioeconomic levels of the participants will vary from low to medium to high since the schools selected for this study are from various socioeconomic areas of the state. This group of participants is representative of the general population of Maryland, the schools from which the participants attend are all scattered throughout the state (rural, city, suburb, poor, middle, wealthy) to control for location differences as well as socioeconomic differences.

Racial and ethnic disparities persist in the juvenile justice system leading to disparate impact. In 2011 youth of color represented about 45 percent of total youth in the U.S., but accounted for more than 70 percent of youth detained in the juvenile justice system (JJIE, 2015). In 2014 a partnership between San Diego City Heights residents, Peace Promotion Momentum, and stakeholders within the juvenile justice system in San Diego selected the National Conflict Resolution Center and San Diego Youth Services to pilot the Restorative Community Conference (RCC) as an alternative to the juvenile justice system for youth offenders. RCC has three goals: hold youth offender accountable in a non-punitive way, facilitating victim-centered

When a child reaches the age of ten and up, no matter what gender, their behavior changes. The transition from childhood to adulthood goes through puberty, a period in life where adolescents are inclined to do actions that are risky like smoking, having unprotected sex and drinking alcohol. However these actions vary depending on ethnicities. The objective of this essay will be to compare and contrast risky activities, parental control and peers pressure to two different ethnic groups from America, white and black teens.

Research hypothesis: African American males are more likely to be effected by environmental factors in correlation with college attainment. The Null hypothesis employed in this study assumed that there is no significant difference between the environmental factors within correlation college attainment among African American males, while the alternative hypothesis was that significant differences would exist. Below is a description of a diagram the entitles formulated circles with inner circles inside to explain the environmental levels and influences on a child, of course for this research that is specifically narrowed down to young adult African American males. The description of the figure follows: the different environmental levels and influences on the child. First two inner rings display the microsystem- child’s first environmental contact, mesosystem- immediate environment like family, ecosystem-large social systems like school and community, and macrosytem- the wider society (Stevenson, 2010). This figure describes the overall interactions between the family, school and community, and the society as a whole (Daniels, 2014). This display’s a visual outlook concerning environmental influences toward young adult African American

Ethnographic Study Paper In performing my ethnographic study on my school and community I will be discussing the following, ethnic background, language, age, and educational level of community members, behavioral norms, values, and socioeconomic status. Out of these seven factors the two I feel have a significant effect on the daily personal and professional interactions within the school and community are the educational level of community members and the socioeconomic status. I teach in a very small town called Thermal in California. The population is roughly 2,900 and has one neighborhood. Thermal is listed as 591 largest communities in California. Thermal can be described as a blue-collar town, with almost half of the people working in

1. Growing up I experience, and saw the struggle that my siblings and classmates faced in our community. In a community where resources were scarce and inadequate guidance was provided, pursuing higher education became a challenge. Four out of eight children in my family, including myself, were able to earn a high school diploma. The other four dropped out of high school due to a combination of language barrier and gang affiliation. My research papers sought to examine the reason why so many at risk youth end up dropping out of high school.

The teen years can often times be very difficult in general, but for homosexual teens their problems can turn out to be more than they can deal with. Being gay for many teens is something that they can not live with because society, most of the time, says that homosexuality is wrong. These teens usually have no one to go to with his or her problems for fear of being taunted or harassed. Also, schools rarely have groups for gay students to go to for help and parents are often unaware of what their children are going through. With no place to go and no one to help them, homosexual teens can feel alienated which may force them think of more harmful ways of dealing with their problems, so at times gay teens may turn to suicide rather than

Large portions of the minority youth in the Midwest grow up in low-income communities where risk factors reduce their chances to attend college and excel academically. Project IMPACT is a multicultural academic program created by former Associate Provost of Diversity, Dr. Myra Gordon, to help minority recruitment and retention. Over 4,000 minority students have participated in special campus visits during high school, and a lot of them have decided to attend the university. Each academic school year, the Office of Diversity at Kansas State University hosts “College for a Day”, sponsored by Cargill and ConocoPhillips. There are about 700 students that are influenced by our ten “College for a Day” events throughout an academic school year. The

The concept of “model minority” was defined in 1960s in US. This term intended to describe a minority group (especially Asian-American) in America which achieves a high degree success. This success often reflects in good education, good job and high income. Many people are willing to believe that if they do better job than other, they will no longer suffer from race discrimination. But is that realistic?

GLBT youths were more vulnerable than their peers. In the film, some students talked about their negative feeling about others’ reaction based on their sexual orientation. Thus, teaching GLBT youths how to stay away from others’ judgments would also be vital. Teaching them they are just who they are, and teach how to not to judge themselves by others’ standards.

The main hypothesis was that students who are involved in more campus and club activities would report having a greater sense of school community and social justice engagement. Also, that “year in school would predict social justice and school belongingness”.

The study by sociologists Geoffrey Wodtke and David Harding of the University of Michigan and Felix Elwert of the University of Wisconsin is the first to capture the cumulative impact of growing up in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods on a key educational outcome: high school graduation.

knowledgeable, and skillful. As a counselor, counseling an African American client, they must first understand the client background. In order to understand the client background, the counselor needs to understand the African American culture. Counselors have to understand some of the major issues associated with African American socioeconomic, single parenting household, crime rates, low education achievement. Many African Americans live in poverty and high crime areas. Although many lives in poverty, region plays a big part of their live. Many adolescence of the black community are faced with troubling circumstances. An effective counselor working

Working in a daycare, I see kids, of all kinds, limiting themselves on a daily basis. Whether it be the boy who wants to play dolls, or the girl who wants to play dinosaurs, kids all over the country are restricting their personalities and their imaginations because of what it expected of them.