Research Grants

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?

How do the contexts in which low-income children and youth reside affect the attitudes of American adults?

How are child, family, school, and neighborhood contexts linked to participation in out-of-school activities, particularly for disadvantaged youth?

Are school-based mentoring (SBM) programs effective in fostering school performance and socio-emotional development?

What organizational practices appear to have the best payoff in terms of improving the quality of after-school program implementation? Which practices are not promising?

Investigators examine the social and economic characteristics of never-married mothers.

What caused the California Youth Authority – regarded as the most enlightened juvenile corrections system in the country as recently as the mid-1970s – to become the focus of national publicity on the widespread abuse of its young inmates?

How do state adolescent health coordinators impact their state’s adolescent health programs and policies?

What factors predict how well youth with disabilities will do after high school?