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Andria B. Eisman; Christine Koffkey; Suzanne Brown; Christina Holmes; Barry Schmidt; Eric Swihart; Tracy Robinson; Bo Kim – Prevention Science, 2025
Drug use trends change rapidly among youth, leaving educators and researchers struggling to respond promptly. Widely adopted universal evidence-based interventions (EBIs), such as the Michigan Model for Healthâ„¢ (MMH), and their delivery systems offer an opportunity to reach large youth populations and reduce the onset and escalation of emerging…
Descriptors: Administrators, Teachers, School Counselors, State Officials
Morton, M. H.; Farrell, A. F.; Kugley, S.; Epstein, R. A. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
The Voices of Youth Count initiative's systematic evidence review is the most comprehensive synthesis of evaluation evidence on programs and practices related to youth homelessness to date. This document is one in a series of seven topical evidence summaries derived from the longer evidence review brief. Herein, evaluations of family interventions…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, Homeless People, Family Programs, Intervention
Morton, M. H.; Farrell, A. F.; Kugley, S.; Epstein, R. A. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
The Voices of Youth Count initiative's systematic evidence review is the most comprehensive synthesis of evaluation evidence on programs and practices related to youth homelessness to date. This document is one in a series of seven topical evidence summaries derived from the longer evidence review brief. Herein, evaluations of non-housing case…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, Youth Programs, Homeless People, Evidence
Garringer, Michael; Benning, Chelsea – MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2023
As the youth mentoring field has expanded and diversified in America over the last 30-plus years, many adults who care about getting these valuable relationships to more young people have asked questions about the scope and scale of mentoring in American society. In 2014, MENTOR first started to examine these societal level trends in a seminal…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Role, Youth, Young Adults
Morton, M. H.; Farrell, A. F.; Kugley, S.; Epstein, R. A. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
The Voices of Youth Count initiative's systematic evidence review is the most comprehensive synthesis of evaluation evidence on programs and practices related to youth homelessness to date. This document is one in a series of seven topical evidence summaries derived from the longer evidence review brief. Herein, evaluations of individual…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, Youth Programs, Homeless People, At Risk Persons
Morton, M. H.; Farrell, A. F.; Kugley, S.; Epstein, R. A. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
The Voices of Youth Count initiative's systematic evidence review is the most comprehensive synthesis of evaluation evidence on programs and practices related to youth homelessness to date. This document is one in a series of seven topical evidence summaries derived from the longer evidence review brief. Herein, evaluations of economic and…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, Youth Programs, Homeless People, Intervention
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Golightley, Sarah – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
In the United States, thousands of young people reside in private schools aimed at reforming 'troubled teens'. These 'troubled teens' are young people who are considered to have emotional, behavioural and/or substance misuse problems. Therapeutic boarding schools are programmes that combine educational classes and group therapy in a self-contained…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Youth Problems, Boarding Schools, Rehabilitation
Morton, M. H.; Farrell, A. F.; Kugley, S.; Epstein, R. A. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
The Voices of Youth Count initiative's systematic evidence review is the most comprehensive synthesis of evaluation evidence on programs and practices related to youth homelessness to date. Herein, evaluations of outreach interventions for youth experiencing homelessness are summarized. Outreach is a set of activities in which service providers…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, Youth Programs, Homeless People, Evidence
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Kuyumcu, Fehime Nihal – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This essay is about the evaluation by 12 students and a PCG teacher participated in the Forum Theatre training in a state high school in Istanbul. Answers by participating students and the PCG teacher to the open ended question are evaluated through qualitative research techniques. The answers reveal that Forum Theatre has a positive and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Student Attitudes
Morton, M. H.; Kugley, S.; Epstein, R. A.; Farrell, A. F. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
This Research-to-Impact brief is the eighth in a series from Voices of Youth Count. Voices of Youth Count is a national research and policy initiative designed to fill critical gaps in the nation's knowledge about unaccompanied homelessness among youth and young adults ages 13 to 25. Voices of Youth Count research estimated that nearly 4.2 million…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, Youth Programs, Homeless People, Intervention
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Liao, Minli; Testa, Mark – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objectives: This study evaluated the effects of the Adoption Preservation, Assessment, and Linkage (APAL) postpermanency program. Method: A quasi-experimental, posttest-only design was used to estimate the program's effects on youth discharged from foster care to adoption or legal guardianship. A random sample was surveyed (female = 44.7%; African…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Foster Care, Intervention, Behavior Problems