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F.O.C.U.S.: Forming Occupational and Community Understanding for Success
Stephen Phillips
The social issues our program address revolve around equality and inclusion.
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Project FOCUS
Glen-Marie Quintanilla
Project FOCUS addresses the lack of inclusion within the higher education environment.
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Project 150: High School Is Tough Enough
Jesus Ramirez
Project 150’s social issue is homelessness, mainly focused on youth Homelessness
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Project FOCUS
Sean Rogers
Project FOCUS is an inclusive, accessible, and productive career education program for college-aged students with intellectual disabilities in the Las Vegas area.
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The Latino Youth Leadership Alumni
Maria Sanchez
The social issue the LYLA addresses is young minorities, specifically undocumented youth immigrants.
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Project 150
Shawn Shoshani
Project 150 assists homeless students in high schools within Nevada who don't have access to basic necessities.
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Innovations International Charter School
Rachel Ugarte
Innovations International Charter School was built to be a school where students have the resources necessary to academically succeed.
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LightHouse Charities
Minwhee Jin
The social issue that LightHouseCharities address is the issues of refugees' and at-risk families’ resettlement.
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John D. Jackie Gaughan Boys and Girls Club
Morgan Small
The John D. Jackie Gaughan Boys and Girls Club addresses at risk youth and juvenile deliquency by providing programs and activities geared towards the positive development of at-risk youth.
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The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Ben Brikman
According to J Stuart Elborn (2016), a medical professor from Queen’s University Belfast, youth that grow up with this disease “have shown a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in patients with cystic fibrosis and parent caregivers.” It greatly affects a person when they are feel like it is a burden to take care of themselves. Many affected by psychological distress allows this negativity to affect their adherence to their treatment and experience more frequent exacerbations, which leads to a poor quality of outlook on life.
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J.T. McWilliams Elementary
Anthony Cano
According to Nevada Report Card, 287,550 students in the state of Nevada are identified as minorities.
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John D. Jackie Gaughan Clubhouse
Dakyung Jung
“Alleviating urban poverty depends significantly on economic growth and the nation’s ability to provide more, and better-paying, jobs” (Lemons, 2015).
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Project 150
Jacob McQueen
The social issue that Project 150 seeks to address is the issue of homeless and underprivileged youth.
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Religion Declining
Oscar Pascual
As of today, compared to previous generations there are fewer people going to church or are affiliated with a religion that day practice daily. During my volunteering in my service site, where it was my job to basically teach, or enlighten youths from a Catholic family and show them what their religion means to them and its importance, my fellow teachers and I face the challenge of basically grabbing their interest even worse their attention to the topic.
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Assistant Sunday School TeacherSt. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Nicholas Barbarino
Give the children the necessary information to be able to make a decision about the religion in their future.
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Project 150
Anthony Louie
Homelessness is a major problem in the world we live, but it is even bigger when it happens to youths.
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The Muscular Dystrophy Association
Natasha Ortiz
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a social problem because the people affected by it do not get to live a normal life.
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Mentoring with Core Academy
Danielle Olson
Giving children a chance to have one person who is always rooting for them and having a positive reinforcement in their life.
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Baby's Bounty
Selene Barajas
There are disadvantaged mothers that come from domestic abuse cases, teen pregnancies, unemployment, underemployment, and have mental health issues.
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Youth Homelessness
Sydney Lahown
Approximately 1.7 million homeless teens in the United States (Fernandes).
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Creating the future leaders of tomorrow
Jason T. Meyer
The current state is ongoing, as there is a whole new group of boys who reach scouting age every year who need the support and guidance that in a lot of cases, they cannot receive anywhere else.
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