Understanding Youth Social Settings

Funding was given to support the Campaign for Youth.

What explains recent trends in black-white test score gaps for 4th and 8th graders and what role do out-of-school factors play?

Funding was provided for a technical report from a previously funded grant, “Positive Youth Development: Research Synthesis and Dissemination of Key Findings.”

Can the Higher Achievement Program improve the academic performance of low-income students? If so, how does it do so?

Poor and largely minority school districts face an enormous challenge in staffing their schools with effective teachers.

Can trained, informal mentors reduce the rates of substance use among rural African Americans making the transition from adolescence to adulthood? Are informal mentor relationships more effective than simply training families to be supportive of these young adults?

To help support the radio and Internet documentary “Will Power to Youth” which will explore an after-school program and its long-term effects.

This is a special initiative at the Foundation, developed with the Principal Investigators to increase the capacity of practicing social scientists to design and carry out credible group-based intervention studies.

Can a simple, low-cost intervention increase the number of low-income high school students taking the necessary steps to go to college?

Investigators implemented and tested the effectiveness of an autonomy supportive intervention for low-income mothers and visiting nurses.