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Direct linkElizabeth Casline; Grace S. Woodard; Elizabeth Lane; Scott Pollowitz; Susan Douglas; Jill Ehrenreich-May; Golda S. Ginsburg; Amanda Jensen-Doss – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2025
Measurement-based care (MBC) is an evidence-based practice (EBP) focused on regularly administering outcome measures to clients to inform clinical decision making. While MBC shows promise for improving youth treatment outcomes, therapist adoption remains low. Clinical consultation is one strategy that improves MBC implementation, but our limited…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Consultants, Counseling Techniques, Program Implementation
Download full textMercy Valentine Owan; Chinedu Ositadimma Chukwu; Peter Owogoga Aduma; Valentine Joseph Owan – Pedagogical Research, 2025
This study is an evaluation of the national youth service corps (NYSC) program of the federal government of Nigeria. It assessed the input, process and output indices of the programs to determine the extent to which the program has been successfully implemented and what it has achieved so far. To the researchers' knowledge this study is the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Federal Programs, Attitudes
Rachael Botting; Jacob Sorenson; Karen K. Melton; Rob Ribbe Jr. – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
As research on summer camp continues to expand and both scholars and practitioners gain a better understanding of the impact of the experience, it has become important to explore how the experience of summer camp is connected to the larger ecology of youth development. This study explores strategies of Christian summer camps for impacting faith in…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Summer Programs, Camps, Christianity
Jessica Sperling; Megan Gray; Victoria Lee; Lorrie Schmid; Nicholas Malinowski – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
There has been increased focus within the evaluation field on the value of community-engaged research (CER) methods; however, CER is not easily seen as compatible with experimental evaluation methods (or randomized controlled trial, RCT). For instance, in an experimental design, researchers leverage randomization to create a counterfactual; this…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Research Methodology, Randomized Controlled Trials, After School Programs
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
William Wilton; Claudia Mincemoyer; Jill Lingard; Maria Walker – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
CLOVER by 4-H is an online learning platform that creates a space for youth to explore interactive learning experiences across a range of 4-H program areas. This article provides an overview of a pilot conducted around the implementation of CLOVER by 4-H to provide positive youth-development experiences in 4-H programming. As a result of the…
Descriptors: Youth Clubs, Blended Learning, Best Practices, Youth Programs
Simone H. Schriger; Steven C. Marcus; Emily M. Becker-Haimes; Rinad S. Beidas – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2025
Developing tailored implementation strategies to increase the use of evidence-based practice (EBP) requires accurate identification of predictors of their use. However, known difficulties with measuring EBP use complicates interpretation of the extant literature. In this proof-of-concept study, we examined whether the same predictors of use of…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Youth, Evidence Based Practice, Predictor Variables
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
Jodi L. Smith; Jamie Mullins; Lisa Ingram; Brenda Pruett; Allison Nichols; Carole Scheerbaum; Lorrie Wright; Amanda Johnson – Journal of Extension, 2024
We examined the impact of 4-H participation on workforce readiness skill development, including personal, work, communication, and problem solving/decision-making. The study examined two levels of 4-H activities: county-level and state-level. The online survey instrument contained questions about demographics, skill development and 4-H…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Job Skills, Skill Development, Program Effectiveness
Emily D. Irwin; Rachael Jewell; Jessika C. Boles; Tisha Coggin Clay – Continuity in Education, 2024
Innovations in medicine have allowed children with cancer to attend school more frequently by increasing survival rates and improving access to outpatient therapies. Children with cancer still miss a significant proportion of school attendance and participation during treatment, thereby disrupting their educational experiences. "Monkey in My…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Cancer, Learner Engagement
Sarah Cusworth Walker; Lawrence Wissow; Noah R. Gubner; Sally Ngo; Peter Szatmari; Chiara Servili – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2024
Numerous influential policy and scientific bodies are calling for more rapid advances in the scale-up of child and youth mental health services (CYMHS). A number of CYMHS innovations hold promise for advancing scale-up but little is known about how real-world efforts are progressing. We conducted a scoping review to identify promising approaches…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Youth Programs, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Dan 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
Joseph R. Anthes – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
A growing divide in physical activity amongst youth, fueled by the privatization of youth athletic programs, most negatively impacts underrepresented students. Intramural-sports programs hold the potential to engage more of our youth in physical activity, including those from marginalized populations. Utilizing a collective impact approach,…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, School Districts, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education
Robert P. Lubeznik-Warner; Michael Froehly; Taylor Wycoff; Victoria Povilaitis; Luke Cloward; Shannielle Taylor; Seunghee Moon – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: Summer camp is an experiential learning setting that supports youth development. Due to high fees, youth from low-income backgrounds often have fewer opportunities to attend. Subsequently, there is little literature about these youth's camp experiences. Purpose: This research examined growth and the characteristics supporting growth in…
Descriptors: Camps, Low Income Groups, Summer Programs, Experiential Learning
Charlotte Silke; Bernadine Brady – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Internationally, the number of young people who experience significant mental health issues is increasing. It is argued that flexible, community-based initiatives can help support mental health services to address the mental health needs of young people. Youth mentoring is a community-based model, which has been found to act as a…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Services, Access to Health Care, Mentors
