Targeted Food Marketing to Youth is a no cost, self-paced online training for professionals based on the need for youth to build skills in which they will wisely select and prepare healthful foods.
A two-day training for all professionals who work with adolescent parents offers constructive insights into teen parents, their children, and the issues they all face.
A two-day training for all professionals who work with adolescent parents offers constructive insights into teen parents, their children, and the issues they all face.
Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research has new research brief called Young Adults in the Parental Home and the Great Recession.
"Using data from the 2006 and 2011 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, this profile examines the unemployment rate and subsequent median earnings of young adults in the labor force pre and post The Great Recession. Comparisons are made between young adults coresiding with at least one parent and those who were not living with a parent (i.e., living independently). In addition, data from the Toledo Adolescent Research Study (TARS) provide new insights into young adults’ motivations for co-residing with parents."
A new report presents a conceptual framework for efforts to prepare at-risk youth for healthy adult functioning and self-sufficiency. Produced as part of the Youth Demonstration Development project for the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, the framework explains how we can build our knowledge about what works for at-risk youth, by implementing and testing research-informed interventions to promote youth’s resilience and human capital. An issue brief summarizes the framework.
The Children's Mental Health eReview, provided through the University of Minnesota Extension, Children, Youth & Family Consortium summarizes children's mental health research and implications for practice and policy.
In this issue, learn about research related to the strengths and needs of homeless children, and explore ideas for how to use creative research-based interventions in a variety of settings.
