Category: Youth
Actor Edward James Olmos spearheads donations request to help “Stand and Deliver” teacher Jaime Escalante
LatinaLista If we were to name the top five all-time family favorite Latino films, a list might include: La Bamba, Real Women Have Curves, Mi Familia, Selena and — Stand and Deliver. Who could forget the teacher Jaime Escalante, played by Edward James Olmos, who inspired a classroom full of East LA kids to believe [...]
President’s dropout recovery plan lacks four components to help Latino students
LatinaLista President Obama outlined a plan today to reduce the high school dropout rate. He deserves kudos for understanding that this educational crisis goes beyond local communities and state jurisdictions, and has serious national implications for the future. According to the President’s statistics: Every school day, about 7,000 students decide to drop out of school [...]
Study reveals some Latina mothers unwittingly chart an obese future for their children
LatinaLista — Even before researchers conducted their study on childhood obesity differences among white, black and Latino children, they hypothesized that black and Latino children would have higher rates of obesity-related risk factors in their early years. It wasn’t a hard hypothesis. In the March edition of Pediatrics, researchers release the findings of their study, [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: Helping former student gang members shed inked skin
LatinaLista According to the latest National Youth Gang Survey Analysis 1996-2007, it’s estimated that there are 788,000 gang members in the United States — the majority are Latino (49%) followed by blacks (35%); whites (9%) and 7% comprised of other “race/ethnicity.” The majority of gang members are adults but in the smaller towns and cities [...]
When it comes to Latina teen pregnancies, California’s doing something right
LatinaLista Something good is happening in California. For a state more accustomed to bad news — a broke state economy, a slashing of public services, an increase in health premiums by the state’s largest health insurer, rising college tuition rates, escalating home foreclosures, crime, etc. — today’s news that the state’s Latina teens are having [...]
Life’s lessons prove to be a challenging class to master for one young man
By Jo Ann Hernandez LatinaLista — Marcelo in the Real World, by Francisco Stork, is the tale of Marcelo Sandoval, a 17-year-old with an Asperger’s-like condition. He is forced to exit his comfort zone when his high-powered father steers Marcelo to work in his law firm’s mailroom (in return, Marcelo can decide whether to stay in special [...]
Creating healthy relationships from broken homes
By Jo Ann Hernandez LatinaLista — In Parents Who Cheat: How Children and Adults Are Affected When Their Parents Are Unfaithful, Ana Nogales, Ph.D., combines her experience from her thirty-five years of clinical practice with her current research, which includes an unprecedented ‘Parents Who Cheat Survey,’ to reveal the profound effects on children and adult children [...]
Just the Facts: The growth of Latino children in foster care system
LatinaLista — The likelihood that a child who goes through the foster care system ends up in jail is high. According to the National Association of Social Workers, 80% of all inmates are former foster children. Couple that sad news with the disturbing revelation that the number of Latino children in foster care more than [...]
Online site aims to break the cycle of financial illiteracy among young Latinos
LatinaLista — Financial literacy is an issue that is increasing in importance among the Latino community as the economy still teeters, jobs are still lost and people are still losing their homes. For too long, Latinos, and those who speak a language other than English, have been considered fair game by unscrupulous credit card and [...]
Research finds immigration enforcement exacts a hefty toll on children of the undocumented
LatinaLista — One aspect of illegal immigration that doesn’t get the coverage it deserves, but for many immigrant advocates is the heart and soul of the push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, is what happens to the children of undocumented immigrants. On February 4, the Urban Institute released the study Facing Our Future: Children in the [...]
