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How do conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to low-income families affect youth time use, family interactions, youth academic expectations and motivations, and youth mental health and behavior problems?

To support and help expand NPR's news programming on youth issues.

Support was given to form a working group focused on improving developmental opportunities for American Indian children and youth.

How do school boards understand, weigh, and incorporate various types of research evidence in their policy deliberations and decision-making?

This grant will fund three Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Congressional Fellows over the next three years, all of whom will be scholars interested in youth issues and with a...

Most English-language learners (ELLs) are taught in all-English language classrooms, and we know very little about what features of those classrooms are associated with higher levels of ELL...

What role do the social climates of classrooms and non-instructional settings (e.g., lunchrooms, playgrounds, and hallways) play in predicting youth risk behaviors and outcomes?

The team that developed CLASS will use this grant to develop easy-to-administer tools that assess teacher-student interactions using student and informant (principal/supervisor) surveys.

Getting Out and Staying Out (GO&SO) will use this award to improve and upgrade the database that tracks the activities of their formerly incarcerated clients who utilize their New York City office.

Young Audiences (YA) will use this award to improve its arts residencies programs, which are offered to New York City public schools.

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) will use this award to improve its Trauma Recovery Program, which provides mental health services to youth who have experienced...

Groundswell will use this award to train their teaching artists to better identify and appropriately address the disruptive behavior of some of the program participants.

Rockaway Artists Alliance will use this award to improve and update services offered to children with special needs who attend the KidsmArt After-School program.

Love Heals will use this award to improve the Speakers Bureau Program, which sends health educators and youth speakers to public schools and community organizations to make presentations and conduct...

Support was given to generate awareness of best practices, research, and successful models of after-school programs.