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Education, General, Health, Nonprofit, Parenting, Women, Youth

Spotlight Non-profit: La Alianza Hispana partners with Greater Boston Latinos to strive, excel and achieve

Apr 9, 2010, 12:02 PM 0

LatinaLista — Everybody needs to start somewhere. La Alianza Hispana (LAH), Inc. of Greater Boston strives to do that for their local Latino community. Begun in 1968 by Ana Maria Rodriguez, a teacher of English as a second language…

Children, General, Media, Youth

New bilingual initiatives expand the search for missing & exploited Latino children

Apr 8, 2010, 10:43 AM 2

LatinaLista — “According to Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), about 800,000 children are reported missing every year. Of that total 58,000 are abducted by non-family members and 200,000 are…

General, Health, Women, Youth

Historic low Latina teen pregnancy rates send hopeful message

Apr 6, 2010, 9:05 PM 3

LatinaLista — It never made a whole lot of sense that while more Latinas aspired, went and graduated from college than their male counterparts, they still had the dubious distinction of ranking the highest among all girls when it…

Education, General, Government, Immigration, Palabra Final, Youth

Deported DREAM Act student claims Dept. of Homeland forced him to sign paper barring him from returning to U.S. for 10 years

Apr 5, 2010, 3:42 PM 7

LatinaLista — The story was all too familiar — a young, bright college freshman studying electrical engineering on a full scholarship at a local Dallas university suddenly caught in the rusty wheels of federal bureaucracy, otherwise known as U.S….

Education, General, Guest Voz, Youth

Guest Voz: Motivational Youth Speaker targets three things to ensure Latino students’ success in school

Apr 2, 2010, 11:33 AM 3

LatinaLista — Fabian Ramirez is a youth motivational speaker and regularly speaks to students every year in schools, churches and community events. While his message for all students is to stay in school, his main focus is to reach Latino…

Children, Environment, General, Health, Youth

Low-income Latino and black children hit especially hard with Vitamin D deficiency

Mar 31, 2010, 4:47 PM 1

LatinaLista — If having the biggest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes weren’t enough, now low-income Latinos and African Americans have something else to worry about — not getting enough Vitamin D. Vitamin D is an invisible benefit from…

Children, General, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Youth

GOP’s inaction on immigration enables OK lawmakers to make felons out of undocumented children

Mar 26, 2010, 1:08 PM 8

LatinaLista — Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is hopping mad — just like the rest of his party over the passage of the President’s healthcare bill. The only difference between Graham’s anger versus his colleagues is that he’s going to…

Children, Education, General, Nonprofit, Youth

Spotlight Non-profit: The LAYC goes beyond academics to ensure success in life for low-income Latino youth

Mar 19, 2010, 5:48 AM 0

LatinaLista — If an organization has been able to last for 42 years then it’s obvious they’re doing something right. There’s no truer example of that than with the D.C.-based Latin American Youth Center (LAYC). Founded in 1968 and…

Education, General, Youth

New report finds colleges bear half of the blame for low Latino graduation rates

Mar 18, 2010, 8:57 AM 0

LatinaLista — A new report released today by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research titled Rising to the Challenge: Hispanic College Graduation Rates as a National Priority documented the fact that Latino students who don’t graduate from college…

General, Government, Palabra Final, Youth

Illinois bill assumes all Latinos and blacks are gang members

Mar 15, 2010, 6:06 PM 5

LatinaLista — When it comes to guns, I’m not a fan. Yeah, I’ve heard all the “Constitutional arguments” for them and even saw that the Texas State Board of Education felt the need to emphasize the right to carry…

Children, Environment, General, Health, Nonprofit, Parenting, Youth

Spotlight Non-profit: Casa de los Niños keeps children safe from child abuse

Mar 12, 2010, 4:31 PM 0

LatinaLista — Child abuse seems to be in the headlines more and more every day. Whether it’s due to parents under stress from a bad economy or the fact that some people have no business being parents, the bottom…

Books, Children, Education, General, Youth

Latinos comprise largest share of “Below Basic” literacy rates

Mar 2, 2010, 5:18 PM 1

LatinaLista On the heels of the President’s address of the dismal dropout rates, the nation is supposed to be observing today Read Across America Day 2010. For those students who have dropped out of school or who are struggling…

Causes, Education, General, Money, Women, Youth

Actor Edward James Olmos spearheads donations request to help “Stand and Deliver” teacher Jaime Escalante

Mar 2, 2010, 2:48 PM 2

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,…

Children, Education, General, Palabra Final, Youth

President’s dropout recovery plan lacks four components to help Latino students

Mar 1, 2010, 12:23 PM 4

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…

Children, General, Parenting, Youth

Study reveals some Latina mothers unwittingly chart an obese future for their children

Mar 1, 2010, 10:48 AM 0

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…

General, Nonprofit, Social Justice, Youth

Spotlight Non-profit: Helping former student gang members shed inked skin

Feb 26, 2010, 10:32 AM 0

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…

Education, General, Health, Parenting, Women, Youth

When it comes to Latina teen pregnancies, California’s doing something right

Feb 22, 2010, 3:53 PM 3

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…

Books, General, Youth

Life’s lessons prove to be a challenging class to master for one young man

Feb 20, 2010, 6:01 PM 0

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…

Books, Children, General, Parenting, Youth

Creating healthy relationships from broken homes

Feb 20, 2010, 5:39 PM 0

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…

Children, General, Palabra Final, Parenting, Social Justice, Youth

Just the Facts: The growth of Latino children in foster care system

Feb 19, 2010, 4:55 PM 3

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…

Economy, Education, General, Money, Multimedia, Online, Youth

Online site aims to break the cycle of financial illiteracy among young Latinos

Feb 16, 2010, 1:57 PM 0

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…

Children, General, Government, Health, Immigration, Palabra Final, Social Justice, Youth

Research finds immigration enforcement exacts a hefty toll on children of the undocumented

Feb 10, 2010, 4:30 PM 34

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…

Culture, General, Media, Women, Youth

New Girl Scout study reveals young girls want reality from fashion industry and advertising

Feb 10, 2010, 3:15 PM 0

LatinaLista When it comes to body image, it’s long been known that the fashion industry has a hand in determining for the rest of us what and who is beautiful or feo (ugly). Thanks to size 0 models, or…

Children, Education, Fitness, General, Government, Health, Nonprofit, Youth

First Lady pushes the nation to get moving on combating childhood obesity

Feb 9, 2010, 11:14 AM 1

LatinaLista — Childhood obesity is a BIG problem in the Latino community that is only getting worse. The severity of the problem was underscored this morning with President Obama signing a presidential memorandum establishing the first-ever government-wide Task Force…

Children, Education, General, Music, Nonprofit, Youth

Spotlight Non-profit: Opening the doors to top-tier American orchestras for Latino and Black student musicians

Feb 5, 2010, 9:17 AM 0

LatinaLista Among the nation’s classical musical orchestras, blacks and Latinos only constitute 5% of the musicians. A man by the name of Aaron P. Dworkin vowed to change those dismal statistics. With a vision to make classical music reflect…

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