Understanding Youth Social Settings

Funds to identify a school district to include in a randomized study of Making Meaning Reading Comprehension program.

To support a series of radio reports for National Public Radio on healthy youth development.

How do adolescent experiences of daily life change as they transition from the high-school to the post-high school years? How do changes in experiences of daily life relate to changes of emotional well-being?

What are the relationships between children’s health and family daily routines and rituals? What strategies do parents use to construct and maintain family routines and rituals?

To support a citywide group of NYC public and private stakeholders to connect, improve, and scale-up government and privately funded programs for young adults currently disconnected from education and job preparation services.

Under what conditions do youth develop negative (or positive) social relationships with other youth from diverse social groups?

How do the translating experiences of immigrant youth change over time in relation to their changing linguistic and social competencies, and their families’ changing circumstances?

This project aims to explore the sexual landscape today and its impact on young women: their attitudes, behaviors and the implications of those attitudes and behaviors for life-long relationships, emotional connectedness and well-being.

What are the roles of social supports, expectations, and guidance in shaping students’ aspirations and college-going patterns?

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