Youth and Development: At-Risk Youth in the Holland Community

Childhood and adolescence stand out as the most pivotal times of development and growth. During these years, we begin to develop as individuals and our beliefs begin to take shape. For many children, these years are racked with suffering and turmoil and unfortunately many children end up walking down paths that lead to life-altering consequences. This research project addresses atrisk youth in the greater Holland area and the various services such as housing, reintegration, and mentoring that are provided by local organizations. Looking at six major categories that are often associated with at-risk youth—abuse and neglect, delinquency, homelessness, substance and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, and truancy—we researched the organizations, via individual interviews with organization leaders, associated with each category and then matched a specific organization to each of these. We examined the reasons that the founders created these organizations and why they chose to focus on a particular problem in the community. We aimed to find out whether these organizations adequately served the issues facing at-risk youth, and if not, find where these gaps exist. This project culminates in a digital collection of narratives from the people involved in each organization. The narratives displayed on this website present our research in a readily available format for community members to access. This project serves as a base platform for further research concerning the state of at-risk youth in Holland

Spanning subsets of a finite abelian group of order pq

Let G be a finite abelian group, and let S µ G be a subset of distinct nonzero elements of G. If each element g 2 G of the group can be written as a nonempty sum of elements from S, then we say S spans G nontrivially. Denote the maximum cardinality of a subset S which fails to span G nontrivially by e(G), as studied by Griggs in [5]. Griggs noted that the value of e(G) is known for all finite abelian groups G except for G = Z=pqZ where p; q are primes such that p+b2pp ¡ 2c+1 < q < 2p. We determine the value of e(G) for such groups

Reviving “Part Two” of the Power and Control Wheel

The “Power and Control Wheel” is an image with which most of this audience is familiar. But at its inception, it was accompanied by a second part, called “Institutional and Cultural Supports for Battering”—a worksheet that asked survivors to identify the ways in which the abuse in their relationship is supported by institutions and culture. At a moment in history when anti-IPV coalitions are reckoning with their history of indifference to privilege, racism, and other oppressive actions, the authors seek to breathe new life into this forgotten “part two” of the Wheel and the two-part methodology that its creators intended, and provide contemporary academic researchers and advocates with a deeper understanding of why this part disappeared