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Youth-Nex The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development

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In order to generate new understanding and provide direction about the most useful practices and appropriate policies for youth development, the center focuses on multi-investigator, cross-disciplinary systematic research efforts.

SEED FUNDING: Youth-Nex also provides its own funding for promising research related to positive youth development through an annual University-wide Request for Proposals. See seed-funded projects.

  • Avoiding Risk
  • Chicago Youth Development Study
  • Civic Life and Political Discourse
  • Driving Safety: Asperger’s and Autism
  • Engaged Citizenship
  • Evaluation of SAFE Children Intervention (SAFE III)
  • Healthy Lifestyles
  • Improving Nutrition and Exercise Competence in Obese Schoolchildren
  • Languages Across Borders: Building Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Networks in High School
  • Mentoring
  • Methods
  • Middle School Mentoring
  • Motivating Youth Through the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Measurement of Violence Effects:  A Developmental Ecological Approach
  • Program Evaluation and Community Consultation
  • Reducing Risky Behaviors As Associated with 21st Birthdays
  • Reproductive Health Among Sexual Minority Youth
  • SAFE Children Effectiveness Trial (SAFE-E)
  • Supporting Food and Exercise Counseling for Overweight Children
  • Supportive Relationships
  • The Role Executive Function Plays in the Driving-specific Risk Behaviors of Novice Drivers
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