Research andProgram
Youth Connection, Disconnection, and Re-engagement
This research examines what differentiates young people who remain connected to school or work from those who become disconnected. It explores how relationships, community conditions, and experiences across education, workforce, healthcare, housing, transportation, child welfare, and justice systems shape young people’s pathways.
Comparing how connected and disconnected youth experience systems, supports, community, and opportunity.
Career Preparation, Coaching, and Postsecondary Value
This research studies how career coaching, labor-market information, work-based learning, internships, field placements, and the costs of professional preparation influence students’ access to education, health, and human-service careers.
Understanding how paid access, personalized guidance, and hidden preparation costs shape career mobility and workforce pipelines.
Community Dynamics and Public Systems
This work develops a framework for understanding how people, community relationships, social support systems, and public policy interact. It considers how local conditions influence whether programs and policies are understood, trusted, accessed, or experienced as meaningful in daily life.
Refining and applying the Community Dynamics model across place-based assessments, institutional strategy, and local governance.
A New Foundation: Advancing Adolescent Neglect Science Through Measurement Development
This National Institutes of Health-funded project seeks to strengthen how adolescent neglect is conceptualized and measured. The study focuses on forms of unmet need and support that may be overlooked when assessment tools are designed primarily around younger children.
Developing a stronger foundation for identifying and studying adolescent neglect, support, autonomy, and well-being.
Connecticut’s Unspoken Crisis: Elevating the Voices of Young People
This research examines what differentiates young people who remain connected to school or work from those who become disconnected. It explores how relationships, community conditions, and experiences across education, workforce, healthcare, housing, transportation, child welfare, and justice systems shape young people’s pathways.
Comparing how connected and disconnected youth experience systems, supports, community, and opportunity.
Hope That Lights The Way
This research studies how career coaching, labor-market information, work-based learning, internships, field placements, and the costs of professional preparation influence students’ access to education, health, and human-service careers.
Understanding how paid access, personalized guidance, and hidden preparation costs shape career mobility and workforce pipelines.
Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Valley Food Access Assessment
This work develops a framework for understanding how people, community relationships, social support systems, and public policy interact. It considers how local conditions influence whether programs and policies are understood, trusted, accessed, or experienced as meaningful in daily life.
Refining and applying the Community Dynamics model across place-based assessments, institutional strategy, and local governance.
Adult-Youth Mentoring Training Modules for University-Community Engagement Partnerships
This National Institutes of Health-funded project seeks to strengthen how adolescent neglect is conceptualized and measured. The study focuses on forms of unmet need and support that may be overlooked when assessment tools are designed primarily around younger children.
Developing a stronger foundation for identifying and studying adolescent neglect, support, autonomy, and well-being.
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