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Initial results from the Remaking Middle School Listening Tour reveal an important theme: adults need to elevate and center the perspectives of youth.

Los Angeles Rams Partner with UVA School of Education and Human Development to Launch Positive Youth Development Training Series for Watts Rams Coaches & LAPD Officers

In an effort to reduce preschool suspensions and expulsions, UVA researchers and their partners are building a system to better teach adults how to support young children’s mental health.

Schools, teachers and parents are still dealing with the pandemic’s aftermath. That’s why librarian Ashley Hosbach launched this project.

In an effort to reduce rates of intimate partner violence, researchers are exploring the influences and contexts of romantic relationships for Black girls.

Assistant Professor Valerie Adams-Bass answers questions about media engagement by youth, the influence of social media, and what adults can do going forward.

One school in Chicago, guided by UVA youth development researchers, put a new model for approaching challenges in middle schools to the test.

While many mentoring programs paused or ended during the pandemic, UVA’s Young Women Leaders Program refocused and built on their foundation of fostering youth competence, connection, and autonomy.

Retiring education professor Patrick Tolan helped push the study of adolescent development toward a strengths-based perspective.

Emma is from Pierz, Minnesota, and is graduating with a master’s degree in Educational Psychology-Applied Developmental Science.