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- Child
Trends Data: Youth and Dating
Students in the eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades
are less likely than they were in 1991 to ever date.
The shift in behavior is more pronounced for twelfth
grade students, where the percentage who did not
date at all rose from 14 percent in 1991 to 25 percent
in 2003. The percentage who went on one or more
dates per week declined from 34 percent to 27 percent
during that time period. Between 2002 and 2003,
the percentage of tenth grade students who never
date increased from 34 percent to 37 percent and
the percentage of twelfth grade students who never
date increased from 23 percent to 25 percent.
- More
Than a Label
- My
Voice, My Life, My Future
- PrACTice
Matters - Strengthening Youth Involvement
This issue focuses on Strengthening Youth Involvement
within an organization or community initiative.
We report on ACT for Youth's experience promoting
positive youth development, and lessons learned.
- Research
FACTs and Findings: Adolescent Brain Development
Research now supports what parents have long suspected—that
the teenager’s brain is different than the adult
brain. Recent research by scientists at the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) using magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) has found that the teen
brain is not a finished product, but is a work in
progress.
- Research
FACTs and Findings: Best Practices for Youth Development
Programs
While it is true that research in the field of Youth
Development has lagged behind practice, a lot of
good information is now available. In 2002, the
National Research Council published Community Programs
to Promote Youth Development, a comprehensive review
of available data on community interventions and
programs that promote adolescent health and development.
- Research
FACTs and Findings: Identity Formation in Adolescence
The question, "Who am I?" is especially pertinent
during adolescence. The combination of physical,
cognitive, and social changes that occur during
that time, plus the serious life choices to be faced
(occupation, life partner) spur what Erik Erikson
(1968) famously called an identity crisis.
- Research
FACTs and Findings: Risk, Protection, and Resilience
Why is it that some youth are able to survive difficult
upbringings that place them at-risk and become productive,
responsible adults, while others cannot?
- Research
FACTs and Findings: Social Capital and the Well-Being
of Youth
The term "social capital" suggests an analogy between
the financial "investments" made by individuals
and corporations and the "investments" people make
in social relationships.
- Research
FACTs and Findings: Understanding Youth Development
Principles and Practices
YD stresses the role of communities in creating
what has become widely known as “SOS”: Services,
Opportunities, and Supports (Pittman, et al 2001).
However, although SOS has become common place in
YD, it is not always clear what “services, supports,
and opportunities” look like or how they differ
from what most communities already have in place.
This fACT sheet is designed to review key features
of the YD framework in hopes of fostering a clearly
defined youth development language.
- See
Jane Win for Girls: A Smart Girl's Guide to Success
- Washington
Youth Voice Handbook: the what, who, why, where,
when, and how youth voice happens
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