The Graduate Training Fellowships in Childhood Obesity Prevention Program targets issues such as the number of obese children in the U.S. tripling in last 30 years.
As students begin middle school, they are vulnerable to a range of academic, behavioral, and social problems. Research has shown that such difficulties tend to reflect both person-environment mismatches and the contributions of multiple developmental factors working as a correlated system.
D.A.R.E.’s transition to the keepin’ it REAL middle school curriculum has been successful. Middle school enrollments in D.A.R.E. during the transition have increased from 125,000 to 130,000. This success led D.A.R.E. to extend its licensing agreement for a new keepin’ it REAL elementary school curriculum. This new curriculum will be taught to the 1.6 million elementary school students enrolled in D.A.R.E.
Award-winning Penn State researchers working to "keep it real".
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), an international education program that seeks to prevent youth substance use, gang participation, and violent behavior, has partnered with Penn State researchers to disseminate the keepin’ it REAL (kiR) program in schools across the United States.
CYFC researcher collaborating with the PA Statewide Afterschool/Youth Development Network (PSAYDN) to study career programming in out-of-school time programs
Educators and policy-makers have been advocating for more and better career programming during in-school and out-of-school time, particularly because many youth are unprepared to contribute to the 21st century workforce.
The SSRI/CYFC Faculty Fellows Program provides social science faculty $15,000 for two course releases over the course of one academic year to develop expertise in a new research area. College of Arts & Architecture
Matthew Kenyon, Assistant Professor of Art: "In-vivo" meets "In-virtual': how real-time gaming can help the study of health
Brian Orland, Professor of Landscape Architecture: An in-situ model for capturing public evaluations of natural rural and urban environment