WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interagency_Working_Group...

    The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP, or Working Group) is a group within the executive branch of the U.S. government, and is responsible for promoting healthy outcomes for all youth, including disconnected youth and youth who are at-risk. The Working Group also engages with national, state, local and tribal agencies and ...

  3. Youth empowerment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_empowerment

    Youth empowerment programs are aimed at creating healthier and higher qualities of life for underprivileged or at-risk youth. [1] The five competencies of a healthy youth are: (1) positive sense of self, (2) self- control, (3) decision-making skills, (4) a moral system of belief, and (5) pro-social connectedness.

  4. Youth organizations in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_organizations_in_the...

    —BSA Troop 97 [is 1] Columbian Squires is a Catholic boys' Scout-like organization run by the Knights of Columbus. The Squires considers itself to be an athletic team, social club, youth and civic improvement group, management training, civil rights group and spiritual development program. Squires history The Columbian Squires were begun in 1925. In December 2012, the Knights of Columbus was ...

  5. Jefferson Parish, Louisiana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Parish,_Louisiana

    Jefferson Parish is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 440,781. [1] Its parish seat is Gretna, its largest community is Metairie, [2] and its largest incorporated city is Kenner. Jefferson Parish is included in the Greater New Orleans area .

  6. Orleans Public Defenders - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orleans_Public_Defenders

    Wainwright, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana created a network of private attorneys to represent poor defendants part-time, for $29,000 a year. It was called the Orleans Indigent Defender Program. An office of public defenders did not exist at this time. Traffic violations and other court fines and court fees funded more than 75% of the program.

  7. Michoud Assembly Facility - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michoud_Assembly_Facility

    The Michoud Assembly Facility ( MAF) is an 832-acre (1.3 sq mi; 3.4 km 2) manufacturing complex owned by NASA in New Orleans East, a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. Organizationally it is part of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is currently a multi-tenant complex [2] to allow commercial and government ...

  8. Commonwealth Youth Programme - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Youth_Programme

    The Commonwealth Youth Programme, also known as CYP, is an international development agency working with young people between the ages of 15 and 29. Part of the Commonwealth Secretariat, CYP is active in the Commonwealth's 54 member countries. CYP has a head office in London with four centres in Africa ( Lusaka, Zambia ), Asia ( Chandigarh ...

  9. New Orleans school desegregation crisis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_school...

    The New Orleans school desegregation crisis was the period of intense public resistance in New Orleans that followed the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. The conflict peaked in 1960, when U.S. Circuit Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered that desegregation in ...