D. Wayne Osgood

After-school programs are designed to provide safe venues for academic enhancement, recreation, and positive youth development. They can be a place in children’s communities that can foster supportive relationships with adults and positive interactions with their peers.

Can researchers create cost-effective measures to assess how teacher practices are related to student norms regarding academics, or which students are seen by their peers as leaders?

In what ways do combined family- and school-based programs positively alter peer networks, consequently lowering youth substance use and delinquency?