Frankie Bachelder first entered Long Creek Youth Development Center when he was 14 years old, and lived inside the juvenile ...

In the decade since I left health and human services administration and its issues behind, promising shifts in juvenile justice policy and practice have gained momentum. Perhaps the most significant ...

WASHINGTON — Legal responses to juvenile offending should be grounded in scientific knowledge about adolescent development and tailored to an individual offender's needs and social environment, says a ...

That perspective naturally broadens our interests and responsibilities. We recognise that our contributions do not need to be confined strictly to our industry. Supporting youth development through ...

There are predictable “tasks” or processes that are associated with healthy adolescent development, depending on the adolescent phase. As adolescents progress through developmental phases and tasks, ...

The Certificate in Positive Youth Development equips professionals with an understanding of the theoretical, empirical and experiential bases of the Positive Youth Development (PYD) model. PYD offers ...

The use of mobile technology is among children and adolescents is very diverse, research shows. The work points to great complexity in the effects of that usage. A new special section of Child ...