Youth-Nex Projects
In order to generate new understanding and provide direction about the most useful practices and appropriate policies for youth development, the center focuses on multi-investigator, cross-disciplinary systematic research efforts. Below are categories that relate to the focused work at Youth-Nex since our founding in 2009. These research projects represent the current and on-going work at Youth-Nex by all our researchers.
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Avoiding Risk
- Boys of Color Collaboration - Studying What Goes Right
- Preventing Delinquency
- GREAT Schools and Families
- Success 360
- Statutory Rape or "Normal" Teen Love?
- Motivating Youth Through the Humanities
- Driving Safety: Asperger's and Autism
- Developmental-Ecological Studies of Development & Prevention in City Settings Secondary Data Analyses
- The Virginia Violence Project
- Reducing Risky Behaviors As Associated with 21st Birthdays
- Effects of Physical Activity, Executive Function, and Risk-taking in Life and Behind the Wheel
- Reproductive Health Among Sexual Minority Youth
- Engaging Students in an Environmental Community Service Learning Intervention
- Understanding and Supporting Safe Driving of ADHD Teenagers with Auditory Feedback
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Healthy Lifestyles
- Compassionate Schools Project
- Healthy Living Curriculum
- ADHD and PYD: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Reduce Deficits and Improve Capabilities
- Improving Nutrition and Exercise Competence in Obese Schoolchildren
- Vascular Disease in Adolescent Type 1 Diabetes
- Supporting Food and Exercise Counseling for Overweight Children
- Impact of School Architecture on School Practices and Healthy Eating
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Supportive Relationships
- Influences of Classroom-level Social Settings on Language and Content Learning in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
- Study of Important Youth-Adult Relationships (YAR Study)
- Young Women Leaders Program Technology
- Measurement of Mentoring Processes
- Motivating Youth Through the Humanities
- Mentoring
- Classroom Connections
- Domestic Violence Intervention
- A Study of Positive Youth Development Among High School Students
- Languages Across Borders: Building Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Networks in High School