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Grace Outreach provides GED preparation, coaching, and mentoring for low-income women in the South Bronx to build their academic skills and help them transition to higher education, vocational...

Through the Teen Leadership Program, Girls Quest works with teenage girls to develop social, academic, and leadership skills. The goal is to prepare them to successfully navigate their challenging...

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...

Friends of the Children NY provides full-time mentors (called “Friends”) to work one-on-one with severely at-risk children from kindergarten through high school.

The New York Asian Women’s Center’s Children’s Program (NYAWC) helps youth recover from trauma related to family violence through individual counseling, support groups, case management/advocacy, and...

Operation Exodus-Inner City operates an after-school program that offers homework help, literacy and math skills development, and recreational activities.

Information on instructional content, taken from teacher logs and ratings of teacher assignment quality, can be used separately to predict differences in student achievement.

Through the Blossom Program for Girls, Youth Empowerment Mission (YEM) offers girls ages 11 to 21 counseling, case management, life skills/leadership development, mentoring, internships, educational...

In LINC’s Teen Tutoring Reading Partner Program, middle and high school students read weekly with elementary school children, building literacy skills and creating opportunities for community...

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?

How does parental criminality influence child outcomes? How do attitudes, communications, and everyday parenting practices foster continuities or influence positive changes in youth?

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?

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?

Global Kids provides students throughout New York City with opportunities for civic and global engagement.

Can an organizational intervention alter the culture and climate of mental health service programs for youth and result in improvements in staff attitudes, services delivered, and outcomes for...

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

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

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