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Direct linkPariece Nelligan; Daniela DiGiacomo; Phebe Chew; Julian Sefton-Green; Kylie Peppler; Sam Mejias – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2024
The benefit of participating in Out-of-School Time (OST) arts programs has been widely documented in studies that often reflect impact over short timeframes. Youth arts organisations often bear extraordinary claims about the impact of programs, and the value they hold especially in the lives of those who face difficult social circumstances. This…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Late Adolescents
Download full textDan Wang; Yunqi Wang; Maria R. de Guzman; Yan R. Xia; Kieu-Anh T. Do; Zhenqiao Yang – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2024
Youth substance use challenges their health and well-being. There is research and practical need for rigorous evaluation of substance use prevention programs in prompting positive youth development. This study examined the program effectiveness of Health Rocks!, a youth substance use prevention program, with a quasi-experimental two-factor mixed…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Substance Abuse, Health Programs, Program Effectiveness
Jessica Bouchard; Jennifer S. Wong – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Adolescents face many difficulties when transitioning to high school, particularly when it comes to their social circles and maintaining friendships. As these challenges can have long-term consequences, providing support to youth during this period is essential. The YWCA Youth Education Programs (YEP) in Vancouver, BC offer group-based,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, Gender Issues, After School Programs
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
Steven M. Worker; Roshan Nayak; Fe Moncloa – Journal of Extension, 2024
Young people need digital competency and confidence to effectively harness computing power to solve problems and design solutions; a core component is improving young people's computational thinking. Unfortunately, access to computer science education is lacking for all youth, and in particular for youth who live in lower-income households, who…
Descriptors: Youth Clubs, Computer Science Education, Computation, Thinking Skills
Christensen, Julie H.; Elsborg, Peter; Melby, Paulina S.; Nielsen, Glen; Bentsen, Peter – Youth & Society, 2021
The use of peer-to-peer approaches in health promotion interventions targeting youth seems to be a strategy with great potential. The aim of this study was to synthesize and assess the elements and conditions that contribute to the effectiveness of youth-led physical activity interventions. This was done using a scoping review addressing the…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Intervention, Peer Relationship, Physical Activities
Tam T. Nguyen-Louie; Nathan F. Dieckmann; Hanzhe Zhang; Zachary H. Mastrich; Balca Alaybek; Alicia Richmond – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2024
This study characterized the patterns and predictors of pre-post changes in knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and intentions (KABBIs) among 641 youth who completed evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs. At follow-up, 64.0% of youth showed changes knowledge, communication, and attitudes; 22.5% showed changes in knowledge,…
Descriptors: Youth, Disproportionate Representation, Disadvantaged, Minority Groups
Alexandra Skrocki; Gary D. Ellis; Andrea Ettekal; Darlene Locke – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
We examined relations among select components of the 4-H Thriving Model, focusing on youth sparks and four presumed determinants: program quality, developmental relationships, situational engagement, and dosage. Based on our results and results of previous studies, we propose a formal theory of youth program sparks. Three hundred fifty-six Texas…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness, Secondary School Students, Adolescent Development
Ferreira, Johanna G. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2021
This paper reflects on the efficacy of the "kids-in-parks" program offered by various national parks in South Africa. Through transformative research, the objectives of the program are reviewed to facilitate future program assessment. Transformative research requires the use of mixed methods; qualitative input was gained from national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Place Based Education, Parks, Environmental Education
Martin, Diris; Mponji, Doris – Childhood Education, 2021
Mentorship from within the community holds great promise for transforming the lives of young people and helping them to take full advantage of educational opportunities. This article discusses the CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education) Learner Guide program, which provides mentors and role models trained by a pan-African network of women leaders.
Descriptors: Mentors, Womens Education, Role Models, Volunteers
Anne, Denis; Chareyron, Sylvain; L'Horty, Yannick – Education Economics, 2020
We assess the impacts of one of the most intensive youth support and training programs in France: the Voluntary Military Service (VMS), piloted by the army since 2015. Our evaluation allows us to compare the cohort of young people entering the VMS with a cohort of unincorporated young volunteers. Our results indicates that a passage through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Military Training, Volunteer Training
Annick Eudes Jean-Baptiste; Stephanie Giannella; Celine Provini – Journal of Youth Development, 2022
Researchers examined social and emotional learning (SEL) ratings for two samples of 559 and 406 predominantly elementary-age youth of color, who were enrolled in out-of-school time (OST) programs serving communities mostly of high socioeconomic need in Palm Beach County, Florida. Covering the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years in the context of…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Minority Group Students, Elementary School Students, Socioeconomic Background
Jessica Deighton; Abigail Thompson; Neil Humphrey; Emma Thornton; Christopher Knowles; Praveetha Patalay; Kyann Zhang; Sarah Evans-Lacko; Daniel Hayes; Anna March; Rosie Mansfield; Joao Santos; Emre Deniz; Paul Stallard; Emma Ashworth; Bettina Moltrecht; Kirsty Nisbet; Emily Stapley; Carla Mason; Jessica Stepanous; Jan Rasmus Boehnke – UK Department for Education, 2025
The aim of the AWARE (Approaches for Wellbeing and Mental Health Literacy:?Research?in Education) trial was to assess the impact of two interventions that have already been developed and found to be effective in other countries (Kutcher et al., 2015; Wasserman et al., 2015) to see if they might be effective in improving mental health related…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Intervention, Consciousness Raising, Secondary Schools
European Union, 2022
This practical guide was produced following peer-to-peer training on 'Creating pathways of support for vulnerable young people to enter training and the labour market', which took place in February 2021. It builds on the information, tools and techniques shared by training participants. The guide aims to provide European Social Fund (ESF) managing…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Out of School Youth, Unemployment, Transitional Programs
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
