Awarded Grants

Children’s PressLine operates an after-school journalism program, where adolescent and teen participants work in teams to research story topics and conduct interviews with peers and policymakers on issues that affect young people in the community.

How can we improve the psychometric properties of two classroom-based observation instruments used to gather information about effective teaching?

The newly formed League of California After-School Providers consists of the 50 largest providers of after-school services in California. The award will fund two statewide symposia, conducted by the League.

Cardinal Shehan Center provides a range of recreational, educational, and social services to young people in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Support was given for a paper that will offer education researchers practical guidance on designing and conducting rigorous impact studies.

This award builds on an NIH-funded cluster-randomized trial to test whether providing implementation support through community development teams impacts a county’s decision to adopt the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, an evidence-based child welfare program. With this award, Palinkas will...

This project supports an experimental trial of Family Transition Services (FTS) to deliver evidence-based prevention programs to families undergoing divorce.

Can teaching conflict resolution help reduce the development of unproductive ways of dealing with conflict and result in fewer negative youth outcomes?

Dr. Alexander has reached an agreement with Harvard’s Murray Research Center to store all Beginning School Study (BSS) survey and school record data for future dissemination to the research community.

READ trains middle and high school students to teach reading skills to elementary school students after school and during the summer. Due to competing financial and scheduling constraints, many teen tutors are unable to complete the tutoring cycle.