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Best Practices for Non-Profit Organizations Using Human-Animal Interaction as an Intervention with At-Risk Youth
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Jai Oni Sly – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Non-profit organizations and community programs work with at-risk youth to teach social-emotional skills like empathy, self-confidence, and self-efficacy. This research aimed to examine best practices for community programs that use human-animal interaction as an intervention for at-risk youth. Specifically, the phenomenological study aimed to…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Intervention, At Risk Persons, Youth
Program Evaluation of a School-Based Support Group for Latinx Immigrant Children
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Bouche, Vicky – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Rates of migration continue to rise in the United States; between 1965 and 2015, new immigrants and their ancestors accounted for 55% of population growth. In Latin America, ongoing violence, extreme poverty, and political instability force many families to migrate north to the United States. Before, during, and after migration, immigrant children…
Descriptors: Immigrants, At Risk Persons, Trauma, Mental Health
An Autoethnography on How a Person Developed the Skills and Attributes Necessary for Benefiting the Education of a People Who Have Been Largely Ignored in Our Society: Those Individuals with Multi Disabilities Who Are Unable to Communicate with Verbal (Spoken) Speech
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Schneck, James A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Using an autoethnographic approach, this dissertation explores the path taken by a person who serves a unique population of individuals--people who not only have more than one disability, but in addition, are unable to communicate using verbal (spoken) speech. Starting with a recap of the history of the use and subsequent oppression of American…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Multiple Disabilities, Communication Problems