Today, there are children sleeping under bridges with no food to eat and nowhere to go. Without our help someone's daughter will continue to cry herself to sleep as she sleeps in the woods with only a blanket, someone's son will feed himself with trash from a dumpster, someone's granddaughter sleeping under a bridge will be raped and someone's grandson will commit suicide because he lost all hope. These children need our help. (Enough is Enough, 2022). Although there are some government agencies and organizations that try to identify what can be done to help the homeless youth population, minimal progress is taking place. The United States Government and other organizations are offering some assistance, but more funding is needed to save the lives of this vulnerable population. In addition, homeless youth need to have available access and knowledge that these resources exist and are available to help them fully transition back into society. This study examined the growing reality of youth homelessness and the impact of interventions for housing, mental health, and substance use. The primary goal of this theses is to bring awareness and educate the public on the homeless youth crisis currently being faced throughout our country. In addition, the resource guide that was created with the research found from this study will be distributed in places homeless youth can access such as local schools, shelters, churches, police and fire stations, as well as online databases.

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Grapes (Vitis spp.), globally cultivated for wine and other grape-based products, are susceptible to various diseases, pests, and disorders. These challenges are particularly pervasive in Virginia and viticultural regions in similar climates. Thus, growers routinely use insecticides and fungicides to protect their fruits. However, frequent or excessive use of these chemicals can pose environmental and human health risks and increase the chances of fungicide resistance. Many crop production systems use physical barriers to shield plant surfaces from biotic and abiotic environmental factors, particularly in Asian countries. This study evaluated the efficacy of paper bags, umbrella-style covers, and fruit-zone shelters in mitigating fungal diseases, insect infestations, and other factors that damage grape clusters. A series of field experiments were conducted at four commercial vineyards in Virginia and one research experiment station at Virginia Tech in five years with eight grape cultivars. Our results highlighted the importance of bag and fruit-zone shelter applications. Especially when these protection measures were applied around bloom, we observed reductions in the level of multiple diseases and insect- and bird-related damages. Fruit bagging resulted in significantly lower (P ≤ 0.05) mean severity and incidence of black rot, sour rot, sooty mold, and grape berry moth damage. Similarly, we found a significantly lower mean incidence of black rot, ripe rot, sour rot, and bird damage with the application of fruit-zone shelters. Thus, fruit bagging and fruit-zone shelter can be an effective cultural method for safeguarding grape clusters from different diseases, potentially reducing pesticide use and offering economic advantages to growers. / Master of Science / Grapes are produced for making wine and other grape-based products worldwide. However, grape production often faces challenges from diseases, pests, and environmental factors, especially in humid regions like Virginia. Grape growers use pesticides (insecticides and fungicides) to protect their crops. However, these chemicals can harm the environment and human health; moreover, these disease organisms and pests can become resistant to pesticides. In many parts of the world, especially in Asia, farmers use physical barriers like bags or covers to protect their crops from various harmful factors. In this study, we tested the effectiveness of paper bags, umbrella-style covers, and special shelters around the fruit area of grape plants against fungal diseases, insect problems, and other damages. We conducted a series of experiments over five years in four commercial vineyards and a research station in Virginia, using eight grape cultivars. Our findings showed that using bags and shelters around the grapes, especially during the blooming period, was effective. Bagging the fruit led to significantly fewer cases of diseases (black rot, sour rot, and sooty mold) and grape berry moth damage. Likewise, using shelters around the fruit area resulted in significantly lower diseases (black rot, ripe rot, and sour rot) and bird damage. Therefore, these protective methods could offer more options for grape growers to protect yield from factors damaging their high-value crops.

My Polish background and upbringing have had a profound influence on the way I look at architecture. Growing up I was always fascinated by the interplay of new things that were around me, dancing with the old objects and way of life that were still present. How can these two worlds co-exist? Does the rise of one signify the death of the other? My thesis project explores this dichotomy of old and new and how they interact with each other. The site is near Dupont Circle in Northwest Washington DC. I thought it beautifully poetic the idea of a homeless shelter rising above the ruins of a burned out church. A place for spiritual salvation would now morph into a haven for corporeal redemption. The transformation the space demanded was basically cosmetic; it would remain a place for human beings to rediscover themselves. The lingering eminence of the space made me fall in love with it, and the possibility of what it could become, of what it could turn into, drove my desire. / Master of Architecture

[pt] O Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente garante a todas as crianças e adolescentes o direito a conviver com sua família e em sua comunidade. Contudo, ao se falar de criança e adolescente com deficiência percebe-se a fragilização deste direito frente às especificidades advindas do cuidado necessário. Isso se dá apesar dos diversos documentos legais apontarem para a importância da centralidade na família na formação de crianças e adolescentes, entendendo-a como espaço de proteção e desenvolvimento social. No entanto, a deficiência requer da família um cuidado maior gerando uma sobrecarga, na maioria dos casos, sobre um membro familiar no que tange ao cuidado. Quando temos a associação da deficiência à pobreza vemos a situação se agravar ainda mais levando, em determinados casos, muitas famílias a buscarem na institucionalização a melhor saída para o cuidado de seus filhos. O processo histórico da institucionalização de crianças e adolescentes com deficiência perpassa dois outros processos: a assistência voltada à infância em situação de risco ou de vulnerabilidade social e ao movimento de ascensão da Psiquiatria no que se refere aos estudos sobre a criança anormal. A cultura da institucionalização de crianças e adolescentes perdurou por muito tempo em nosso país. Com o Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente ganha força a proposta da desinstitucionalização, proposta esta reforçada por diversos documentos no âmbito das políticas públicas anos mais tarde. O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar os motivos que ainda levam à institucionalização, crianças e adolescentes com deficiência no município do Rio de Janeiro, mesmo após duas décadas da promulgação do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente e dos avanços advindos a partir dos novos marcos legais voltados a essa parcela da população. A análise tem como base duas fontes de informação: uma revisitação dos dados colhidos pela pesquisa Do confinamento ao acolhimento: mudando a prática de institucionalização de crianças e adolescentes com deficiência no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (CIESPI, em convênio com a PUC-Rio: CNPq/Ministério da Saúde 2006-2008) e uma nova consulta de dados realizada a partir de visitas e entrevistas com diretores ou representantes das Instituições de Acolhimento localizadas no município do Rio de Janeiro (2010-2011). / [en] The Statute on the Child and the Adolescent guarantees all children and adolescents the right to live within family and community contexts. Nevertheless, when it comes to children and adolescents with disabilities it is clear that access to their rights is not assured due to several specificities resulting from the special care they need. This occurs in spite of the various legal documents that stress the importance of the family context for the full development and protection of children and adolescents. However, children with disabilities require of the family greater attention and health care generating a burden in most cases, to family members. When in addition there is poverty, the burden is heavier and often families feel pressed to seek for alternative care in institutions as a possible best way for the care of their children. The historical process of placing children and adolescents with disabilities in institutions presents two main characteristics: the assistance aimed at children at risk, perceived as socially vulnerable and the establishment of a movement led by psychiatry focusing on the abnormal child. The so called culture of institutionalization of children and adolescents long persisted in our country. With the approval of the Statute on the Child and the Adolescent in 1990s a strong movement against the placement of children in institutions takes place. This movement was then strengthened by several policies approved in the subsequent years. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the reasons that still lead to the placement of children and adolescents with disabilities in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, even two decades after the enactment of the Statute. It also focus on the advances that followed the new legal framework aimed at this segment of the population. The analysis is based on two sources of information: a revisit of the data collected by the study From institutionalization to a family setting: changing the practice of institutionalizing children and adolescents with disabilities in the State of Rio de Janeiro (coordinated by the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood, CIESPI, in partnership with PUC-Rio and sponsored by CNPq/ Ministry of Health, 2006-2008) and new data collected through visits and interviews with directors and representatives of the institutions for children with disabilities in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro (2010-2011).

Intimate partner violence is a global health issue to women’s rights and women can be victims of this violence at an early age. Literature shows that there needs to be a further understanding of the people who support these young women. This article presents a qualitative study where the aim of the study was to explore female youth shelter volunteers’ perspective of the support, they give to victims of intimate partner violence and the support they themselves receive in this role. To investigate this, 12 volunteers from various female youth shelters in Sweden took part in digital semi structured interviews. The material was coded through a thematic analysis where three main themes was displayed. The first theme was (1): Giving support by acknowledging the victim. The second (2) was: Drawing support from social connections with other volunteers. The third (3) theme were: The relation between giving and receiving support is intertwined. These themes included various subthemes. This study can be useful in educating and providing knowledge of the circumstances of female youth shelter volunteers views of the support they provide and themselves see as importance of access to. Findings may be beneficial to authorities, policy makers, volunteering organizations and public health.