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Download full textJessica 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
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Based on the purpose of improving the communication power of the computational intelligence short videos of China Communist Youth League, this paper takes six typical computational intelligence short video IDs and their popular computational intelligence short videos of the Communist Youth League at the provincial level as the research object…
Descriptors: Computation, Intelligence, Video Technology, Social Systems
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
Laura Santos; Maria do Rosário Pinheiro; Daniel Rijo – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: Psychological distress is highly noticeable among caregivers working in residential youth care (RYC). Maintaining and enhancing caregivers' professional mental health and quality of life is crucial to achieve effective outcomes in RYC. Nevertheless, trainings to protect caregivers' mental health are scarce. Considering the buffering…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Caregiver Training, Residential Programs, Youth Programs
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
Karatana, Ozlem; Ergun, Ayse; Erol, Saime – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
College women are at more risk in terms of sexual behavior than male students. This study was carried out to determine the effect of the transtheoretical model-based Healthy Youth Program on college women's sexual health knowledge and behaviors. The sample of the study, which was conducted with a one-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Sexuality, Health
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
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
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
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
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
Tirrell, Jonathan M.; Hay, Samuel W.; Gansert, Patricia K.; Le, Trang U.; O'Neil, Bridget C.; Vaughn, Jennifer M.; Bishara, Leanne; Tan, Esther; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; King, Pamela Ebstyne; Dowling, Elizabeth M.; Williams, Kate; Iraheta, Guillermo; Sim, Alistair T. R.; Lerner, Richard M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Programs effective in promoting positive youth development (PYD) involve curricular features termed the Big Three: Positive and sustained adult-youth relationships; life-skill-building activities; and youth contribution and leadership opportunities. Data from 610 adolescents (50% female; M[subscript age] = 16.39 years, SD = 1.83) enrolled in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Adults, Adolescents
Studená, Ivana; Polacková, Zuzana – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2020
This chapter reviews the steps taken in Slovakia to adopt and implement Youth Guarantee (YG) and how they interact with existing policy tools and governance structures. There is a long history of a high unemployment rate amongst the Slovak youth, with the lowly skilled youth in particular suffering the most. Hence, youth employability as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
Gormally, Sinéad; Coburn, Annette; Beggan, Edward – Education Sciences, 2021
Community and youth work (CYW) practice has been articulated as striving towards a more socially just and equal society and is theorised as a catalyst for social change that seeks to overcome power differentials. Yet, despite these claims, there is limited empirical evidence to inform knowledge about the extent to which 'equality work' is featured…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Youth Programs, Social Justice, Foreign Countries
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
