The Role of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families in the Youth Development Field

Authors

  • Angela Diaz Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
  • David Britt Sesame Workshop, retired
  • James M. Perrin Harvard Medical School and MassGeneral Hospital for Children

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2020.944

Keywords:

Board on Children, Youth, and Families, public policy, peer review, consensus study, evidence-based, youth development, child development, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Abstract

This special issue of the Journal of Youth Development highlights a range of important contributions that the work of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families (BCYF) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, makes to the field of youth development. This issue traces how BCYF peer-reviewed, published consensus reports use transdisciplinary expertise to assemble relevant research, develop evidence-based findings that then undergird policy recommendations, and then communicate them to a wide audience of policy makers, academics, and practitioners. These consensus reports inform and support practice which improves constructive youth development.

Author Biography

Angela Diaz, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center

   

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Published

2020-06-09