2007

How does parental provision of structure impact the development of 12- to 14-year-old youth’s competence, achievement, and adjustment among European-American and Latino families?

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.

Support was given for a series of policy forums in Washington, D.C., which will focus on the effective use of research-based knowledge in shaping policy and practice in education.

Is it possible to identify and measure the welfare agency staff practices and service activities that account for the difference in outcomes for children and families involved with child welfare agencies?

The investigator plans to write a book for youth policymakers and practitioners detailing the competencies adolescents need for adulthood in the 21st century.

Using secondary data from two sources, this study aims to enrich our understanding of the social contexts of immigrant adaptation in new receiving communities in North Carolina.

A recent experimental evaluation of the Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) School-Based Mentoring program showed modestly positive results, but BBBS wants to do better.