Positive Youth, Healthy Adults: Does Positive Well-being in Adolescence Predict Better Perceived Health and Fewer Risky Health Behaviors in Young Adulthood?

This study demonstrates that positive well-being during adolescence predicts better perceived general health and fewer risky health behaviors during young adulthood. Aligned with the goals of the positive youth development perspective, promoting and nurturing positive well-being during the transition from childhood to adolescence may present a promising way to improve long-term health.

This article was taken from Journal of Adolescent Health

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Expecting Success: How Policymakers and Educators Can Help Teen Parents Stay in School

The Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy released The Promise Project Report from findings and policy recommendations based on data collected from teen parents, teen parent service providers, and educators. The research presented in the report reveals that many teens who were headed toward dropping out become re-committed to school once they become parents. The research also demonstrates that too often these youth do not reach their graduation goals, because they need family, schools, and teen parent programs that both support them and set high expectations for their success.

This article was taken from The Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy

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Mobilizing Communities to Implement Tested and Effective Programs to Help Youth Avoid Risky Behaviors: The Communities That Care Approach

Communities that Care (CTC) describes a coalition-based system for preventing a range of adolescent problem behaviors developed by the Social Development Research Group to help narrow the gap between science and community priorities and practices. The brief describes the key components of the CTC system (including the youth survey that assesses risk, protection, and outcomes); the various steps involved in implementing this system; and major findings from a community randomized controlled study of CTC program effectiveness.

This article was taken from Child Trends

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Preventing Multiple Risky Behaviors among Adolescents: Seven Strategies

This brief presents findings from program evaluations and developmental science that identify strategies and programs that have been shown to help prevent or reduce risky behaviors among adolescents.

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Implementation of the Communities That Care prevention system by coalitions in the Community Youth Development Study

The Community Youth Development Study (CYDS) is a randomized, community-level trial of the Communities That Care (CTC) system for promoting science-based prevention in communities. This study compares  community prevention coalitions implementing the CTC system in intervention communities. As hypothesized, the CYDS coalitions implemented significantly more of the CTC core intervention elements, and also implemented significantly greater numbers of tested, effective prevention programs than the prevention coalitions in the control communities.

This article was taken from Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 38, Issue 2, pages 245–258, March 2010

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Measuring resilience and youth development: the psychometric properties of the Healthy Kids Survey

This report summarizes findings from a study of the psychometric properties of the resilience and youth development module, a key component of the Healthy Kids Survey. The study aims to improve resilience assessment and research so that educators can shape the school environment to promote academic resilience.

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Journal of Public Health Management and Practice Supplement on Youth Development

The November 2006 issue of Journal of Public Health Management is devoted to youth development.

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Connectedness as a Predictor of Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes for Youth

This paper reviews research examining the influence of “connectedness” on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH). Connectedness, or bonding, refers to the emotional attachment and commitment a child makes to social relationships in the family, peer group, school, community, or culture.

This article was taken from Science Direct

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Healthy Youth Development: Science and Strategies

This article provides an overview of threats to healthy youth development and challenges we will face in meeting the needs of all youth in the United States in the coming decades. Discussed are the history of resiliency research that gave prominence to the dynamic interplay of the concepts “risk factors,” “protective factors,” and “healthy youth development,” and definitions for each of these concepts.

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