We partner with communities to study how their investments in healthy youth development reduce negative health outcomes for young people and promote their well-being.
Since 1996, HYD-PRC investigators have led a series of 5-year adolescent health research projects, including significant analyses of statewide and national youth surveys such as the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), Monitoring the Future survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), and the Minnesota Student Survey (MSS). We not only “crunch the numbers:” we team up with youth-serving organizations in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota to test and improve the HYD programs and services we innovate.