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Youth Recommend Improvements in Schools

Over the years 2003-2008, the Amy Kohlberg Quinlan Internship Program sponsored by the USF Collaborative for Children, Families and Communities offered teens research-oriented summer internships to study ways to improve the quality of youth development in their communities. As the school year winds to a close, we want to re-cap some of their suggestions for enhancing effective education [more]

Jazz Professor, Composer Awarded One of the Most Prestigious Academic Recognitions in the World

Chuck Owen is the only Guggenheim Fellow in 2009 from a Florida university [more]

Evaluation of WAIT Training [read more about it]

Partners from USF and A Woman’s Place (AWP) will use their combined resources to evaluate WAIT (Why Am I Tempted) Training, a component of IMPACT, a federal and state funded community-based program that reaches over 6,000 youth annually. The WAIT curriculum delivers key health and youth development messages through abstinence only education classes. The evaluation will 1) examine the efficacy of WAIT Training to reduce the number of adolescents who engage in premarital sexual activity; 2) describe characteristics, social capital and assets that influence how teens receive and use WAIT Training messages and 3) assist AWP in strengthening the curriculum and evaluation design in order to seek additional and competitive funding for longitudinal follow-up and evaluation of the program. The evaluation will involve 3,000 teens in Hillsborough County. A pre-post study design will be used and a small subset of volunteer teens will participate in a follow-up survey six months after training.