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Texas Youth Commission. The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) was a Texas state agency which operated juvenile corrections facilities in the state. The commission was headquartered in the Brown-Heatly Building in Austin. As of 2007, it was the second largest juvenile corrections agency in the United States, after the Florida Department of Juvenile ...
Technology For All is a nonprofit organization based in Houston, Texas.Developed in 1997 by local entrepreneurs, Technology For All services community-based organizations (such as development centers, YMCAs, and local schools) with computer technology, training, and other digital incentives “to empower under-resourced communities through the tools of technology.”
Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they ...
4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development". [1] Its name is a reference to the occurrence of the initial letter H four times in the organization's original motto head, heart, hands, and health, which was later incorporated into the fuller pledge officially adopted in 1927.
DePelchin Children's Center. DePelchin Children's Center, founded in 1892 in Houston, Texas, is a nonprofit organization focused on supporting and sustaining children and the families who care for them. DePelchin provides a range of services for children and families — it is an accredited foster care and adoption agency, and it also provides ...
Founder, former President. Chris Barbic (SVP) Website. www.yesprep.org. YES Prep Public Schools, Inc.[1] is a network of public, open-enrollment charter schools located in Greater Houston. Its headquarters are located at its Southside campus. [2][3] The YES program is a university-preparatory program for grades K-12.
e. Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ), or New Students for a Democratic Society (New SDS) is a United States student activist organization founded in 2006 in response to the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan with the aim to rebuild the student movement. [ 1] It takes its name and inspiration from the original SDS of 1960–1969, then ...
Positive youth development principles can be used to address gender inequities through the promotion of programs such as " Girls on the Run." Physical activity-based programs like "Girls on the Run" are being increasingly used around the world for their ability to encourage psychological, emotional, and social development for youth.