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Download full textAlexandra 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
James D. Scott; Eric Rubenstein; Jason Peake; Nicholas E. Fuhrman; Jori N. Hall – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
Preparing youth, primarily as they become high school graduates, to be ready to enter college and careers, has been a primary driving force in primary and secondary education for over 20 years. However, there lacks consistency in the definition and of the true idea of college and career readiness in the twenty-first century. Additionally, there is…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, College Readiness
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
Direct linkIsaiah Drone III – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how young adult participants, who completed the Inspire-High School Program offered through a parochial school, describe the influences that their internal and external environments had on their ability to complete the program in the southern United States. This study used…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Youth Programs, Prosocial Behavior, Individual Development
Yanhua Shen; Sari Rose; Ben Dyson – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Background: It has been widely accepted that Sports-based Youth Development (SBYD) programs are potentially ideal contexts to develop children socially and emotionally. However, there is a limited empirical examination on how validated models-based practices could be harnessed in SBYD programs to promote children's social and emotional…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Youth Programs, Athletics, Team Sports
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
Dan Wang; Yan Xia; Maria Rosario de Guzman; Jeong-Kyun Choi; Yunqi Wang; Zhenqiao Yang – Journal of Extension, 2024
This study examined the program effectiveness of Health Rocks!, a youth substance use prevention program. Merging data from 128,544 youth participants in 21 states between 2009 and 2021, this study compared self-reported levels of knowledge, skills, and internal and external assets before and after the program. Youth reported significant increases…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Youth Programs
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
Shira B. Taylor; Liviana Calzavara; Sarah Flicker; Pia Kontos; Robert Schwartz – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: Immigrant youth face both unique and disproportionate barriers to sexual health. Targeted sexual health education to redress these disparities requires creative and inclusive approaches that consider personal and community challenges and strengths. This study piloted a novel intervention: SExT: Sex Education by Theatre, a theatre-based,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Barriers, Sexuality, Health Behavior
Hart, Mackenzie J.; Sable, Rahul; Gupta, Arundhuti; Boddu, Jean; McQuillin, Samuel D. – School Psychology International, 2022
We report on the process of planning, adapting, and implementing a brief, instrumental, school-based mentoring curriculum originally developed in the United States, in three cities in India. India has the world's largest population of young adults aged 10-24 years, a developmental period associated with heightened psychosocial stressors and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Development, Mentors, Cultural Relevance
Worker, Steven; McCambridge, Jennifer; Stevenson, Anne; Fields, Jane; Maille, Alexa; Meehan, C. L.; Mondl, Amie; Malone, Charles; Smith, Martin H. – Journal of Extension, 2022
There are many environmental issues surrounding the global production and use of plastics. Three science curricula (Grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8) were developed to introduce youth to the past, present, and future of plastics. Designed using research-based methods and grounded in effective science pedagogy, the curricula provide young people…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Plastics, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment)
Lavyne L. Rada; C. Zane Sheehan; Amy R. Smith; Illana C. Livstrom – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2025
Even with measurable benefits of all three School-Based Agricultural Education (SBAE) components, implementation of each component widely varies. Not all SBAE students experience the benefits of FFA and SAE, resulting in young adults who may not be fully prepared for their careers or to enter the workforce. FFA Affiliation and SAE for All are two…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Career Readiness, Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness
MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2021
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that there are over 400,000 children currently in foster care in the United States. Most youth are in the system for at least a year, with 38% for two years or longer. The most common placement setting for children in foster care is nonrelative foster family homes; about half of youth exit…
Descriptors: Foster Care, At Risk Students, Intervention, Mentors
National Literacy Trust, 2024
Get Islington Reading was a three-year campaign to develop a community of happy, confident young readers aged 9 to 14 across the London Borough of Islington. The campaign was funded by the Charity of Sir Richard Whittington through The Mercers' Company and delivered by the National Literacy Trust and The Reading Agency in collaboration with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Youth Programs, Elementary School Students
Alexandra Sandoval; Edmond P. Bowers – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
Youth participation in community-based, structured out-of-school time programs (OST) has been found to promote positive developmental outcomes by providing youth with resources to build interpersonal relationships and essential life skills. The increasing prevalence and multiplicity of youth participation in these activities leads us to expand the…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Middle School Students, Low Income Groups, Participation
