Making mental health checkups a routine part of adolescent care would provide at-risk teenagers a critical opportunity to prevent long-term disability and the many other negative consequences that too often result from mental illness.
Last week, 150 employees from Blackstone's New York office sponsored students in the First Day New York program, which provides at-risk New York public school students with backpacks, school supplies and outfits for the first day of school.
People who use or are exposed to PCPs on a professional basis should receive sufficient training and physicians should provide at-risk patients with relevant information.
The COW program is designed to provide at-risk youth with opportunities and tools that will prepare them to achieve success during high school, college, and beyond.
The Urban Corps provides at-risk youth with education programs and job training in environmental conservation and land management.
By providing at-risk youth with real world job experience, Urban Alliance offers them a chance at job success and way to break free of the poverty cycle.
Musician Chad Bernstein, together with his father, Bob Bernstein, founded Guitars Over Guns (GOGO), a mentorship program that provides at-risk students in Miami and Chicago with music education, in 2008.
By allocating more funds to schools, we could provide at-risk students with safer alternatives, such as arts and sports programs.
And to that end, a good chunk of the law focuses on providing at-risk families with prevention services such as parenting classes, therapy and substance abuse treatment.
Their restaurant confronts the epidemic of violence by providing at-risk youth with a variety of career opportunities that would normally not be available.
Organizations such as Alternatives For Girls engage in street outreach and provide at-risk girls and young women with mentoring, lessons in substance abuse prevention, counseling and shelter.
