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The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development Integrating and Promoting Health and Well Being with Positive Youth Development Patrick Tolan, Ph.D. Youth-Nex Center, University of Virginia
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The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
Integrating and Promoting Health and Well Being with Positive Youth
Development
Patrick Tolan, Ph.D.
Youth-Nex Center, University of Virginia
The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
Most complex problems have a simple solution….
…it just happens to be wrong! - Mark Twain
The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
Lessons Learned
• Priorities-70% no Recess• Early and Often-Habits• Multiple Opportunities• Built In Opportunity-
Nudges• Health Care, Education,
Community/After School• Messaging
Challenges
• Clear Goals-Mantras• Get it Right vs. Get It
Done• Agency Needs, Agenda
vs. Collaboration Roles• Role of Evaluation• Usability• Type of Evidence
“Coopetition”
The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
Types of Scientific Evidence
• Inferences from Descriptive Studies• Prescriptive Rosters of Programs• Summarize Best Practices -
Guideposts• Benchmarks for Practice• Methods of Managing, Evaluating• Adaptability/Usability
The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
Recognizing Models are Not Actions
It is one thing to call for, as did the prophet Amos,
“Let justice roll down like mighty waters,”
….and quite another to work out the irrigation
system.
-William Sloane Coffin
The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
Key Opportunities
• Fitness May Promote Brain Health
• Eating as Health Behavior-Must Eat
• Connection to Self-Control
• Parental Aides/Empowering
• Youth Capability• Quick Fix Lifestyle
• Micro Environments/ Retrofits
• Community Messaging• Choice Nudges• Practitioner Guidelines• Empirically Based Tool
Boxes• Business - Food Supply,
Employee Health as Cost
The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
The facts are coming! The facts are coming!
TJ
The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development
Scientific Information is Our Best Hope for Good Practice/Policy
