Youth homelessness in the UK A decade of progress? Deborah Quilgars‚ Sarah Johnsen and Nicholas Pleace An evaluation of the progress being made to address youth homelessness in the UK. There have been significant policy developments across the UK to address youth homelessness in recent years‚ most particularly the extension of priority need groups and a new emphasis on the prevention of homelessness. This study‚ the first UK-wide review of youth homelessness for a decade‚ explores whether
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PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction The youth‚ which by legal definition includes those who are 15 to 30 years old‚ comprises almost one-third of the country’s population (NYC‚ 1998). As such‚ the Filipino youth increasingly play an important and vital role in the development of the Philippine society. Their attitudes‚ values‚ mind-set‚ and priorities will determine the progress of the country in the future. Nowadays‚ the Filipino youth are experiencing a serious decline of discipline
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address the needs of vulnerable and high-risk groups of young people‚ including injecting drug users (IDUs)‚ whose high-risk behaviour has been identified as a driving force behind HIV transmission in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. UNFPA strives to build on and expand rights-based policies and programmes that promote healthy adolescent development and provide them with age-appropriate knowledge and tools to make informed choices. UNFPA-supported programmes emphasize behaviour change‚ including abstinence
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Creating Strong Brands Sue Dean Interbrand’s Top Global Brands http://www.interbrand.com/best_global_brands.aspx Group Discussion Think of a powerful brand What factors make it successful? Brands - Many definitions….. “A brand is a product or service made distinctive by its positioning relative to the competition and by its personality” Hankinson & Cowking Building Strong Brands • Strong brands have a strong identity / personality which are built on a unique set of
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the YOUTH ENVIRONMENT Chapter 5. & INTRODUCTION overview of the condition of the world’s environment and variations in environmental quality around the globe. It then addresses the adequacy of existing policy responses‚ which provides a context for exploring the roles youth can play in environmental affairs. It examines how these roles might be strengthened through such means as environmental education‚ whose importance and shortcomings are analyzed. The chapter then turns to the role
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15-17 owning mobile phones (Australian Communications and Media Authority‚ 2010‚ ₱4). Today’s teens are also overexposed to sexual content in many aspects of the media (Burton‚ L‚ 2012). This highly sexualised digital culture has transformed the way youth relate to one other (Walker. S.‚ Sanci‚ L. & Temple-Smith‚ M‚ 2011).One phenomenon that has emerged from the increased accessibility of these devices and sexual exposure is the practice of ‘sexting’ (Society Pages‚ 2013‚ ₱1). The term ‘sexting’
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Making Strong Passwords Name University Professor Name Course Name Date Making Strong Passwords In today’s society‚ computer-based user accounts that require a username and password are very common in workplaces‚ schools‚ and homes for various applications. E-mail accounts‚ online bank accounts‚ social networking profiles‚ and many other instances of private information are all secured by user created passwords. With so much data at risk‚ it should be safe to assume people would generate
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Section 1:Youth Culture and Sub-cultures Youth defined as a separate social category from children and adults only became the subject of sociological and media interest in the 1950s. Early theories focused on the concept of youth culture‚ i.e. the idea that young people in general shared a common culture and identity which set them apart from adult culture. 1. The development of youth sub-cultures Introduction The idea that youth subcultures are a product of social class
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Application of satellite remote sensing technology effectively harnessing the natural resource potential is the prime objective of present day’s remote sensing programmes. The space-based sensors are utilized to provide a wide range of information available in the electromagnetic tapes‚ in a synoptic or more frequent manner for sustainable development and utilization of natural resources. In India‚ though this technology has taken its birth from late sixties using Hassle blad camera as the source
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Cyber Media and Moroccan Youth As-Swat Shabab Abstract Street smart communication technologies (blogs‚ podcasts and vlogs) are creating new opportunities to engage youth in participative and pluralistic media in Morocco. Using tools readily available to them‚ this project will engage young Moroccans in producing multimedia content for the Internet. Based out of Tanmia’s community Internet access centers and using innovative low cost hardware donated by the US Corporation GENESI and Sun Microsystems
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