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James Lewis; Sarah Marsden; Anna Stefaniak; James Hewitt – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2025
This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows. (1) Examine whether secondary and tertiary interventions delivered outside of the criminal justice system are effective at countering the cognitive and behavioural radicalisation of children and adolescents by synthesising evidence relating to relevant primary…
Descriptors: Crime, Justice, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Zijun Li; Mina Ma; Yongqi Yang; Yanfei Li; Ke Guo; Minyan Yang; Guanghua Liu; Kehu Yang – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2023
This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives of this review are as follows: (1) What are the characteristics of skills training services for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness? (2) How effectively do the different skills training programs improve employment status, work and life skills, or housing…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Skill Development, Job Training, Homeless People
MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2023
Despite the strength and resilience that military families demonstrate, military youth can experience socioemotional and academic issues as a natural response to frequent change and uncertainty. Amid increased calls to support service members and their families, concerted efforts have been made to develop mentoring programs specifically for…
Descriptors: Youth, Military Service, Mentors, Social Support Groups
MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2021
In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 8% of youth in grades 9-12 reported being in a physical fight one or more times in the 12 months preceding the survey, with more than 7% reporting being threatened or injured with a weapon on school property. Homicide is the 3rd leading cause of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Prevention, Intervention, Violence
Mansfield, Louise; Daykin, Norma; O'Connell, Neil E.; Bailey, Daniel; Forde, Louise; Smith, Robyn; Gifford, Jake – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2023
This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The proposed systematic review question is: What is the effectiveness of arts interventions for at-risk and offending children and young people (8-25 years)? There are three objectives: (1) To evaluate evidence on the effectiveness and impact of arts interventions on keeping children safe from…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Children, Young Adults, Intervention
MDRC, 2020
The skills and abilities children develop in their earliest years lay the foundation for their future well-being. Likewise, early negative experiences can undermine them in later life. Parents play a central role in shaping their children's development, so helping them overcome their own sources of stress is a powerful way to improve how families…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Home Visits, Integrated Services, Young Children
Shaw, Sara – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
During the first year of life children are at the greatest risk for experiencing homelessness (Perlman & Fantuzzo, 2010). Unfortunately, data on the number of infants and toddlers experiencing homelessness are extremely limited, and any data available are inadequate for a variety of reasons. There is minimal information on how many young…
Descriptors: Data, Infants, Toddlers, Homeless People
Wartella, Ellen, Ed. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2018
With decades of evidence to support early childhood development (ECD) programs and policies, investment in early childhood policies has expanded globally. The development of about 250 million children is at risk due to extreme poverty or stunting. Effective programs can support children's development, but must target risk level and be implemented…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Program Implementation, At Risk Persons
Dixon, Daniel; Tahmaz, Onur – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Intercultural Competence for Youth workers (ICY) was a project co-funded by the European Union Erasmus+ programme that ran for 14 months, from spring 2019 to spring 2020, and involved four organisations from Finland, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Engaging youth workers and young people with fewer opportunities, the project helped youth…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Youth Programs, Athletics, Computer Mediated Communication
Petrovich, James C.; Navarro, Cameron – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
To meet the grand challenge of ending homelessness, social work education programs must prepare students to effectively collaborate with other health-related disciplines. This article presents social work and nursing student perceptions of an innovative interprofessional education activity conducted at a day shelter serving people experiencing…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Social Work, Nursing Students, Student Attitudes
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Thorn, Betsy – Future of Children, 2020
Nutrition is vitally important both during pregnancy and during a child's early years. Inadequate nutrition during this critical period can harm children's health and developmental outcomes throughout childhood and into adulthood. Thus, write Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Betsy Thorn, it's particularly important that young children have adequate…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Child Health, Public Policy, At Risk Persons
Tucker, Laura Packard; Dworsky, Amy; Van Drunen, Molly – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2020
The Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP) in Alameda County, California blends service coordination, intensive case management, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help transition-age youth in foster care engage with available support systems and subsequently improve their outcomes. As part of a formative evaluation of YTP, Chapin Hall…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Foster Care, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness
Dodge, Kenneth A.; Goodman, W. Benjamin – Future of Children, 2019
How do we screen all families in a population at a single time point, identify family-specific risks, and connect each family with evidence-based community resources that can help them overcome those risks--an approach known as targeted universalism? In this article, Kenneth A. Dodge and W. Benjamin Goodman describe Family Connects, a program…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Family Programs, Birth, Home Visits
Murray, Desiree W.; Rosanbalm, Katie – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2017
This brief reviews the importance of self-regulation for adolescents and young adults and provides guidelines for supporting self-regulation development for 14 to 25-year-olds. The following questions are answered: (1) Self-Regulation: What is it and why is it important?; (2) Why focus on self-regulation in older adolescents and young adults?; (3)…
Descriptors: Self Control, Adolescent Development, Adult Development, Late Adolescents
McKool, Marissa; Freire, Kimberley; Basile, Kathleen C.; Jones, Kathryn M.; Klevens, Joanne; DeGue, Sarah; Smith, Sharon G. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
Despite advances in the sexual violence (SV) prevention field, practitioners still face challenges with identifying indicators to measure the impact of their prevention strategies. Public data, such as existing administrative and surveillance system data, may be a good option for organizations to examine trends in indicators for the purpose of…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Violence, Prevention, Program Effectiveness