Eye Tracking, Food Labs and More – New Funding Announced

Mock up of school whose architecture is designed to encourage healthy habits

Related posts can be found under Research and Seed Funded Research.

By Ellen Daniels, Youth-Nex Communications Director

Youth-Nex has awarded funding to four teams of researchers who will study a range of
issues from how innovative school architecture can affect healthy eating to increasing
bullying awareness through student video production.

This is the third time the center has seeded University faculty research promoting positive youth development in the past three years. Patrick Tolan, center director, said projects were also chosen because of their collaborative nature and potential for growth.

“We are already seeing external funding applications growing out of the first rounds. We think there is great potential for similar success from this excellent set of seed grants which also represent multidisciplinary efforts across U.Va.,” said Tolan.

The 2012 funded projects are: Continue reading

Improving PYD Interventions – YN Panel Video

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Related posts available under YN Working Conference April 2012

We’re lucky enough to have captured on video the Youth-Nex Working Conference —where six panels and 23 scholars congregated to further scientific understanding of how to promote effective youth development through the Positive Youth Development (PYD) lens.

Be a part of the discussion chaired by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn: “Learning from Prevention Science and Developmental-Intervention Approaches to Improve PYD Interventions and Evaluations.”  We welcome your comments.  Video.

In the light of the need to provide research and action that integrates PYD into what we already know, Dr. Tolan recently posited: Continue reading

Optimal Targets for PYD Intervention – Panel Video

Patrick Tolan

Related posts available under YN Working Conference April 2012

We’ve been posting a lot about the Youth-Nex Working Conference held in April. Now you can view the discussion. Here’s the first of the panel videos with an introduction by Patrick Tolan: “Identifying the Fundamental PYD Processes Affecting Development: Optimal Targets for Intervention.” Distinguished panelists are: Stephen Hamilton (chair), Richard Catalano, Richard Lerner, Anne Petersen, and Margaret Spencer. More panel video to come. View Video

Welcome!

Youth-Nex Brochure Cover

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the YN Blog!

We begin with reports from the Youth-Nex working conference, held in early April, “Enhancing the Positive Youth Development Perspective: A Developmental Intervention Science Framework.”  More insights and media from the conference will post shortly, including panel videos.

This week, we also feature reflections from Robert McMahon’s parenting talk and we hear from the SALUD project, an ambitious community intervention focusing on healthy lifestyles. Continue reading