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Where You're From and Where You're At: One Community Setting as an Incubator for Healthy Communities and the Reduction of High-Risk Behaviors
Research questions ask: (1) in what ways does the program facilitate healthy development among youth? (2) How well does EMPYD predict substance use/risky behaviors among participants at the end of the program? Results suggest that all indicators of healthy development increased, except for character. The most significant increases were in confidence, competence, sense of community and active and engaged citizenship, a community of change. Factors explained 65% of the variability in risky behavior. Findings suggest EMPYD is a promising model for understanding healthy development amidst risk, anchoring youth development and civic engagement strategies, and measuring dynamics between person and environment.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsPlanning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning
Public health or related public policy
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Discuss a new model of healthy development within the context of prior efforts to describe healthy adolescence and the life-course.
Evaluate these model pathways to identify targets for health promotion and prevention.
Explain how youth programming features can coalesce into a community of change that influences the health of multiple communities.
Keyword(s): Adolescents, Community-Based Health
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the principal or co-principal investigator of funded and non-funded research focusing on the principles of positive youth development, strategies to promote adolescent health, and individual and community empowerment. The current research questions are direct extensions of my established line of published research.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.