Greetings from the HYD-PRC!
This newsletter explores recent work of our HYD-PRC faculty, staff, and community partners. Our newsletter will explore how restorative practices and restorative justice approaches are changing the way communities approach safety, look at our core research project in action, highlight some of our adolescent health products, and examine bias-based bullying in schools.
We wish each of you the very best in your daily work and advocacy on behalf of young people.
Rebecca Shlafer
Director, Healthy Youth Development-Prevention Research Center
Restorative Justice and Healthy Youth Development
The question of how society responds to harmful and criminal behavior by young people continues to be up for debate. Most system policies and practices emphasize practices of social control: determining guilt and having an authority figure impose consequences. However, communities looking to take a different approach to safety – one focused on social engagement – are utilizing restorative practices and restorative justice approaches.
Adolescent Health Communication ECHO - PRC Core Research Project in Action
The HYD-PRC, in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), has successfully launched the newly developed ECHO training, "Adolescent Health Communication."
Adolescent Sexual Health - PRC Creates Products to Highlight Barriers and Needs
The Healthy Youth Development – Prevention Research Center (HYD-PRC) has deep expertise and history supporting the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and youth-serving professionals. Annually the HYD-PRC produces two innovative, community-engaged core products: the Adolescent Sexual Health Report and the Adolescent Health Summer Institute.
Safe School Environments Make a Difference in Youth Mental Health
A recent study found that young people with multiple minoritized identities experienced a third to half less emotional distress when they did not experience biased-based bullying and harassment at school.
PRC Highlights, Events & Resources
- 2023 Sex Ed on the Hill
- (Re)Imagining Justice for Youth - Restorative Justice & Restorative Practices
- Adolescent Sexual Health Report Featured on Kare11
- Governor's Children's Cabinet Advisory Council
- State Adolescent Health Resource Center Closes Doors
- Wanted! YouthCHAT Educators
- Sex Education Collaborative - Training & Resource Opportunities