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Changing Settings to Foster Adaptive Development Among Adolescents

What are the critical mechanisms in social settings that create positive youth development? By what means can we improve these positive settings?

What are the critical mechanisms in social settings that create positive youth development? By what means can we improve these positive settings? To address these questions, this project brings together select groups of scholars and practitioners. These meetings will be held in 2005.

About This Grant

Principal Investigator Marybeth Shinn, New York University
Grant Period December 2004 – August 2007
Programs Capacity-Building and Communications
Focus Areas Understanding Youth Social Settings
Topics Public Policy Broadly
Grant Amount
$79,749.00

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