Implementation Plan
In June 2017, Youth Uprising will create a district wide policy with Alameda County to screen all A.A. students for stress and anxiety (See Appendix A). Starting July 2017, Beauty in the Process program will be the result of the new district-wide policy in Alameda County (See Appendix A). This will be a pilot program for one year at Lincoln Middle School in Alameda, California. Volunteers will be recruited from the school’s Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and in return each volunteer, up to six persons, will receive a school supply grant for $500. Youth UpRising will provide a program coordinator, certified health educator, social worker and guidance counselor from the organization’s program to make the recruitment processes easier.
The program will partner with Flying Yoga Studios in Alameda, since they already have experience teaching yoga and meditation to younger children. The partnership will give student yoga instructors more community hours while assisting a certified yoga instructor. This will ensure students get more attention during sessions with two paid yoga instructors plus additional student instructors. Volunteers will then be fingerprinted and background checked. Art instructor will be recruited through the Alameda County Department of Education to hire an art instructor with teaching credentials.
There are approximately 900 students at Lincoln Middle School, of which around 6% are African American. The students will be given a
Anxiety disorders are not the only people who experience anxiety; in fact, everyone feels it every day or experiences one. Anxiety is what you feel before an important test or before you get married the next day. Anxiety is the source of excitement and it is the butterflies in your stomach. Depending on how you interpret this feeling, it can be a good feeling or your worst enemy.
Also within the school is a very diverse group of children with around fifty-seven percent of students identifying as white, nineteen percent identifying as black or African American, and seventeen percent identifying as Hispanic or Latino.
Audience: 8th grade African American male students, teachers, administration, counselors, and mentors. African Americans, males, and females from different backgrounds that live in urban and suburban
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There have been many discussions about the unnecessary conflict by censoring things it will reduce the amount of conflict and keeping a good relationship with one another. The term unnecessary conflict refers to censoring hates is also help to promote peace. The population of the people is also greatly reduced. For example, freedom of speech opens to everyone there are no right or wrong answers. Legislating by provoking unlawful behavior or urging people to behave unlawfully (19 Ed, 2014). Furthermore, it can also be clearly seen from censorship have the right to preserve free speech. For example, in India people with different skin color makes the topic hypersensitive that might annoy and hurts others religion. Censor will filter all the
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