Entries by Jean Rhodes

Intersecting Inequalities: Research to Reduce Inequality for Immigrant-Origin Children and Youth

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(from WT Grant Foundation) As the proportion of our nation’s children of immigrant origins increases, new research is essential to understand and intervene in shifting patterns of disparity. Over 40 million (approximately 12.5 percent) of people residing in this country are foreign born, and 25 percent of children under the age of 18, a total […]

Are you a mid-career researcher, practitioner, or policy maker? This grant might be for you.

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Due Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 The William T. Grant Foundation’s Distinguished Fellows Program is accepting applications from researchers investigating how youth settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved. Eligible applicants include: Influential mid-career practitioners Policy makers Researchers Learn more about this opportunity.  Funding Opportunities Category:

Discrimination-Related Stress Affects Mental Health of Latino Teens, Particularly Those Born in the United States to Immigrant Parent

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Sirin, S.R., Rogers-Sirein, L., Cressen, J., Gupta, T. Ahmed, S.F., and Novaoa (2015). Discrimination-Related Stress Affects Mental Health of Latino Teens, Particularly Those Born in the United States to Immigrant Parents. Child Development. Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States, comprising 15 percent of the total U.S. population, one third […]

The ABC of peer mentoring – what secondary students have to say about cross-age peer mentoring

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Willis, P., Bland, R., Manka, L., & Craft, C. (2012).  The ABC of peer mentoring – what secondary students have to say about cross-age peer mentoring in a regional Australian school, Educational  Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 18 (2), 173-185. Cross-age peer mentoring Problem: Cross-age peer mentoring is a community-based […]

Executive Function: What is it and why does it matter?

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From Search Institute: The term executive function is familiar to researchers who study child development, but many parents and educators are probably reminded of what CEOs do in corporate offices–rather than what children develop during their critical early years of life. Click on the video below to learn about executive function and why it matters. […]

OJJDP funding opportunity for re-entry mentoring program

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Due Monday, March 2, 2015 The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention is accepting applications (PDF, 117 KB) from programs that will help ensure that the transition young fathers make from secure confinement facilities and out-of-home placement back to their families and their communities is successful and promotes public safety. Programs will be able to […]

New study shows that nearly half of US children have experienced trauma

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from APA.org Nearly half of U.S. children have experienced trauma, according to a study by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers examined data from more than 95,000 children from birth to age 17 and found that 48 percent had encountered at least one of nine types of adverse experiences, including: physical […]

New study explores how teenagers understand inequality

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By Connie Flanagan (originally posted at http://wtgrantfoundation.org/) Young people’s ideas about economic inequality have received scant attention in research despite the fact that we now have several generations for whom an unequal society with an eroding safety net is the world they’ve known. To gain some insights into teenagers’ theories about inequality, my colleagues and I […]

Exploring a mentoring program for Latino college freshmen

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  Phinney, J. S., Campos, T., Cidhinnia, M., Padilla Kallemeyn, D. M., & Kim, C. (2011). Processes and outcomes of a mentoring program for Latino college freshmen. Journal of Social Issues, 67(3), 599-621. Background Latino youth and young adults are the largest and fastest-growing racial/ethnic population in the United States, but Latino students have lower levels of […]

A funny thing happened on the way to the Summit

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by Jean Rhodes Senator Al Franken addressed a gathering at the Library of Congress last week and shared some good news and a funny story. First the good news. Senator Franken (D, MN) assured the crowd that we will soon see the passage of The Child Protection Improvements Act (CPIA), which will enable all programs to access […]