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A warm and relatable resource for teens to reduce anxiety, depression, and panic while developing resilience and confidence with 40 tips and tricks that guide, support, and inspire teens to keep calm and stay mindful while navigating and managing the pressures of everyday life.

Eight-year-old Quinn, a young boy with AS, tells young readers about the achievements and characteristics of his autism heroes, from Albert Einstein, to Lewis Carroll, Benjamin Banneker and Julia Bowman Robinson, among others. All excel in different fields, but are united by the fact that they often found it difficult to fit in-just like Quinn.

This is a book about paying attention to your habitat and how it is connected to the environment. The environment is where you are. To be in a habitat does not require a trip to a rain forest or a national park. To become an eco-tracker, all you need to do is observe and record what you see today, what you see tomorrow, and what is different between those two points in time. Then you look for what caused that change. You can keep the information yourself or you can share it with scientists who use what you see to better understand things like global climate change or how hawks migrate. When you share your findings with scientists, you become a citizen scientist. This book shows you how, as an eco-tracker and citizen scientist, you can learn about and care for a changing planet.

The modern juvenile justice system is failing our society. A literature review reveals resounding criticism of the system at all points—arrest, court processing, and incarceration. The current system does not effectively reduce recidivism, is wrought with racial disparities, operates with a minimal degree of cultural competence, violates human rights norms, and fails to empower and reform individuals who are directly affected. The current system shatters social bonds and does not hold governmental agencies accountable for wrongdoing or ineffectiveness. Community-based approaches more effectively reduce crime, cost less, are more empowering and culturally competent, help ameliorative civic fragmentation, and are more socially responsible. The definition of community-based approaches to juvenile justice entails any, and ideally all, of the following: 1) Empowerment of communities and youth who grapple with mass over-incarceration, poverty, violence, under-performing schools, a lack of mental health and health care services, and a dearth of opportunities for growth and development. Such empowerment should honor the expertise and leadership of those directly impacted by the issues; 2) Cultural competence that merges legal service delivery, capacity-building, and advising with the cultural traditions, methodologies, and linguistic elements of the populations receiving services, while acknowledging the concrete causes of racial disparities and injustice; 3) Support for the formation of social bonds across structural, perceived, and actual adversarial boundaries; 4) Support from the private and public sectors alike; 5) The ability to hold government agencies, especially law enforcement, accountable through legal structures and requirements, community engagement, and varied cultural methodologies; 6) A foundation in human rights laws and norms. The status quo juvenile justice system is developmentally unsuitable for children. Work in the NJ Family Lawyer highlights brain research and US Dept. of Health data, which reveal that teenagers exhibit distinct behavior regardless of their race or socio-economic status. Delinquency is normative, but is criminalized depending on the social location of the youth and community involved. This evidence provides rationale for treating children in far less punitive ways. Moreover, traditional juvenile justice creates generations of “disconnected youth.” Additionally, the status quo system lacks cultural competence. Approaches that call for more professional intervention in the lives of disadvantaged communities, more justice system involvement, significant incarceration, and that fail to recognize the assets and self-determination within these communities, will fail to effect lasting change. The current system transplants children out of their home communities, depletes those communities of social assets, isolates the children in prison, offers them scarce and fragmented services, and expects the children to return home and thrive. Research shows that children are returning home in worse shape than when they departed. Extremely medicalized, evidence-based programs like Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) and Functional Family Therapy (FFT) have proven effective by working with at-risk families and youth in their individual homes, but do not change the disadvantaged surroundings and the dearth of opportunities that the family must grapple with when the program contact ends. Indigenous creation of stronger support systems for those who are tempted to choose crime are the most promising way towards change. Finally, community-based approaches to juvenile justice should be implemented because they cost drastically less than the status quo. There is a host of community-based approaches to juvenile justice that work: Community-based Alternatives To Detention (ATDs) and Alternatives To Incarceration (ATIs); Balanced And Restorative Justice (victim-offender mediation, restitution, peer juries, youth courts, community service) programming; community engagement task forces; other community organizing efforts; Positive Youth Development (PYD); innovative educational programs; and creative ways of addressing police - youth conflict. Further, “Justice reinvestment” is a key to positive outcomes. Overwhelming evidence shows that the current juvenile justice system will not lead to safety, justice, cost-effectiveness, or positive life outcomes for anyone except possibly those corporations and officials who directly profit from it. Community-based approaches need support from all sectors, but especially from the legal community and the private sector. We cannot continue to put stock in the current juvenile justice system without being disappointed at the results.

\"This guide introduces kids and preteens to mindfulness through exercises, meditations, and writing prompts\"-- Provided by publisher.

Present study was designed to explore the significant differences on measures of emotional intelligence among Normal Adolescents and Juvenile Delinquents. To realize the main objective of the study, sample of 300 male participants (150= Normal Adolescents and 150= Juvenile Delinquents) with age ranging between 14 to 18 years was included in the study. All participants were administered on Emotional Intelligence Scales (Sharma, 2010) by applying the rules of respective manual. Obtained data was analysed by applying Descriptive Statistics (Mean, SD, SK, KU) and Z-ratios. Descriptive statistics reveal the normalcy of data distribution except some minor discrepancies. Z-ratios depicted that normal adolescents significantly scored higher on all the measures of emotional intelligence, i.e., Self-Awareness (Z=15.10p<.00), Managing Emotions (Z=12.31p<.00), Motivating Oneself (Z=9.70p<.00), Empathy (Z=13.62p<.00) and Handling Relationship (Z=10.27p<.00) as compare to Juvenile Delinquents. Obtained findings depict that adolescents high on emotional intelligence tend to be low on delinquency. Related review of literature also supports the findings of present study.

\"Describes many aspects of Earth's geography, from wildlife to water supplies, that are under threat from climate change and human actions. Offers many hands-on activities for conservation and recycling\"--Provided by publisher.

Getting kids excited about the library isn't as difficult as media librarians think. All it takes is giving them some control. They'll be surprised at how quickly their attitudes change once they let them play a role in everything from programming and technology to book selection and design. It may take some getting used to, but listening to what they have to say is probably the smartest thing librarians can do. Once teens are hooked on the library's benefits, librarians have lifelong users who'll pass that love on to their kids. One foolproof way to get a library buzzing with teens is with technology--and the more of it, the better. Of course, more traditional programming can also be enticing. Indeed, when school and public libraries join forces, the collaboration can lead to wonderful results. Also, school libraries that encourage young adults to play active roles in running, supporting, and promoting library-related events quickly gain the support of higher-ups. This article offers some surefire ways to make sure that a library is teeming with teens: (1) Offer good leadership; (2) Actively recruit teens; (3) Plan meetings and training sessions carefully; (4) Include fun activities; (5) Make your meeting times and days consistent; (6) Offer perks and benefits; (7) Keep communication open; and (8) Encourage challenging opportunities.

\"When children experience difficult feelings, show them how they can help themselves feel better by pausing and being mindful in the moment. Pairs with the fiction title Isaac's Tree\"-- Provided by publisher.