According to the 2001 NYGS respondents, nearly half (49 percent) of all gang members are Hispanic/Latino, 34 percent are African American/black, 10 percent are Caucasian/white, 6 percent are Asian, and the remainder are of some other race/ethnicity (Egley et al., 2006). However, the racial composition of gangs varies considerably by locality. The newest gang-problem areas (i.e.

See the Surveillance Research Program’s Web page, Where can I find Cancer Statistics by Race/Ethnicity?, for links to reports, monographs, and research tools.

Overreliance on one strategy or another is unlikely to produce fundamental changes in the scope and severity of a community's gang problem (Curry and Decker, 2003; Wyrick and Howell, 2004). A balance of prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies and programs is likely to be far more effective (see Esbensen, 2000). For example, the Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) prevention program (http://www.great-online.

There are significant differences in access to mental health services between children of different racial groups; and, consequently, there are differences in medication use. In particular, African American children are much less likely than Caucasian children to receive psychotropic medications, including stimulants, for treatment of mental disorders.

The types of mental illness and the percentage of the population with each illness is the same across cultures. Cultures vary in how mental illness is stigmatized, beliefs about the cause of mental illness, and response to different treatments. Mental Health professionals from many different fields differ in their opinions on this and related questions.

Some of the gangs that have emerged in the past decade are noticeably different from those that emerged before the mid-1980s (Howell, Egley, and Gleason, 2002; Howell, Moore, and Egley, 2002). These gangs are commonly described as having a "hybrid gang culture," meaning they do not follow the same rules or methods of operation, making documentation and categorization difficult (Starbuck et al., 2001).

Although some gangs limit participation to their own native ethnic grouping, in fact there is no major ethnic group within the county that is not represented in one of the major criminal street gangs. It should not be assumed that any ethnic group is more predisposed to membership in a criminal gang.

African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islander Americans are at particularly high risk for type 2 diabetes. In addition, gestational diabetes occurs more frequently in African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, and American Indians than in other groups.

Diabetes can indeed "run in families," meaning that heredity often makes someone more likely to develop diabetes. Researchers believe that certain genes affecting immune response can play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes, while genes affecting insulin function can contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes.

Whites are more than twice as likely as Blacks to be deaf or hard-of- hearing (Table 5). The overall prevalence is 9.4 percent for whites, compared to 4.2 percent for Blacks. Non-Hispanics are also more than twice as likely as Hispanics to be deaf or hard-of-hearing (Table 6). The overall prevalence is 9.1 percent for non- Hispanics and 4.2 percent for Hispanics.

Minority racial and ethnic groups are hardest hit by diabetes and bear a disproportionate share of the burden of the disease. Diabetes is two to four times higher among African American and Hispanic/Latino populations, as well as some sub-Asian Pacific Islander populations. In King County, diabetes prevalence among African Americans is 2.6 times the rate among whites, and the death rate is 3.7 times higher. This pattern is also similar among Hispanic/Latinos.

Since the thing that brings us together is the notion that Big is Beautiful, the ethnic/racial makeup pretty much covers the map. All are welcomed!

In detailing the transition from typical adolescent groupings to established youth gangs, Moore (1998) outlines four community conditions that often precede this transition. First, conventional socializing agents, such as families and schools, are largely ineffective and alienating. Under these conditions, conventional adult supervision is largely absent. Second, the adolescents must have a great deal of free time that is not consumed by other prosocial roles.

The "gang" characterization is sometimes broadly extended to mean terrorist gang, prison gang, or criminal gang as in organized crime, and "in each of these instances, the word 'gang' implies a level of structure and organization for criminal conspiracy that is simply beyond the capacity of most street gangs" (Klein, 2004: 57).

As of January 2006, approximately 61 percent of all state correctional institutional offenders were African American, 20 percent were Caucasians, 18 percent were Hispanic and one percent represented other racial/ethnic backgrounds. (In these tabulations, a Hispanic is an individual of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of skin color.)

AMERICAN INDIAN or ALASKAN NATIVE - A person having origins (ancestry) in any of the original peoples of North America, who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition. ASIAN or PACIFIC ISLANDER - A person having origins (ancestry) in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, or the Indian subcontinent. Included, for example, are peoples of China, Korea, the Philippine Islands, Samoa, and India.

The PC(USA) is mostly White, and therefore, not very diverse. The majority of the church is White (92 percent). Other racial-ethnic groups for which data are collected by the PCUSA are: Black or African American (3.2 percent of all members), Asian (3.0 percent), Hispanic (1.3 percent), and Native American (0.3 percent). (There is also an "other" category, 0.3 percent.

Currently, 49% are Asian American; 28% Multiracial; 20% Caucasian; 2% Hispanic, and 1% African American.

Although STDs like chlamydia, HPV, and herpes are widespread across racial and ethnic groups, STD rates tend to be higher among African Americans than white Americans. Reported rates of some STDs, like gonorrhea and syphilis, are as much as 30 times higher for African Americans than for whites. This disparity is due, in part, to the fact that African Americans are more likely to seek care in public clinics that report STDs more completely than private providers.

We attract slightly more diverse students than the college as a whole, according to 1999-2001 research data. The one exception is Hispanic students, whose numbers lag behind the college's overall percentages by 1.9 percent. At the same time, we draw a higher percentage of females (56.1 percent) than the college as a whole (52.9 percent) ? an encouraging trend, since white males continue to predominate in newsrooms nationwide.

Yes. In October 1997 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued revised federal standards for collecting and presenting data on race and ethnicity. Among other changes, the standards allow respondents when answering the race question option to "mark or select one or more races.

Because the tissue traits that are used to match a cord blood unit with a patient are inherited, a patient's most specific match will be cord blood directly from that child. American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Black and African American, Hispanic and Latino, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and multiple-race patients face a greater challenge in finding a match from a person other than themselves.

Like most organisations, the CRE has a house style of its own that it tries to use consistently in its publications and pronouncements. The CRE makes no recommendations to others on the use of particular terms, apart from recommending that ethnic monitoring terms should relate to the census categories, and that otherwise, as far as possible, people and groups should be referred to by terms that they generally accept. There is no complete consensus about this, so there are no perfect solutions.

The applicants are interviewed in pools from the districts in which they attend school. Applicants from the smaller districts are combined into one pool while applicants from the larger districts compete against students from their own district. This guarantees that students from the smaller districts are equally represented in the selection process. Thus far, Community Scholar alumni have come from every district and just about every high school in El Paso.

No. There is no genetic basis for ethnicity or race. Our MatriLine service identifies your ancient ancestral mother, who lived at a time that pre-dates our notions of ethnicity and race. We know upon which continent all the clan mothers lived, but the modern day descendents of any single clan mother will be from many different countries, ethnic backgrounds and races.

Currently, children without adoptive families include 1,131 African-American children, 647 Caucasian children, 95 Hispanic children and 42 Bi-racial children.

You can contact the Associate for Racial Ethnic Matching and Referrals Jewel McRae or call 1-888-728-7228 ext. 5748 to request matches for Racial Ethnic ministers and congregations. Lists of available interim pastors are not available from CLC. A CIF must be completed and matching PIFs referred to the CIF.

Gang activity is seen to some degree throughout Fairfax County with more dense concentrations in a few specific areas.

ANSWER. The federal government has a standard set of definitions for racial and ethnic minority groups including Blacks/Non-Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, and Alaskan/Native American. Racial/ethnic groups considered underrepresented in the biomedical sciences include African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. ANSWER. No certification process is necessary.