2008

ICD’s Youth Employment Services (YES) program combines educational and vocational services with a focus on mental health to help youth ages 16 to 21 with serious emotional disturbances (SED) transition to independent living.

Among THE POINT’s after-school offerings is the Middle Grades Program, which currently consists of the ICP at the POINT (a photography program) and a more comprehensive program that provides homework help and arts and recreation.

The Bay Area Partnership will work to improve after-school program quality in two distinct arenas.

What are the positive and negative effects of the Internet on the development of sexual health among gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) youth?

When is moving beneficial or detrimental to youth development, and how do changes in family, school and neighborhood contexts condition the effects of moving?

Supplemental support was given for a qualitative and mixed-methods consulting service that will be offered to the William T. Grant Scholars.

How does neighborhood and family violence affect risk for adolescent obesity?

How do political, environmental, and institutional contexts affect African American and Latino undergraduate student success at U.S. universities?

Support was given for a meeting that focuses on the training of future generations of “adolescent medicine physician scientists.”

Support was given for a meeting that brought together youth development researchers and after-school intermediary leaders.