Current and Upcoming Projects

Promoting Positive Development and Health Among Diverse Youth: From Infancy through Young Adulthood

Click on any of these links to learn more about each project.

4-H Study of Positive Youth Development:
Reconnection and Replication
Funded by National 4-H Council

Character Virtues Among Ugandan Youth
Evaluating Positive Youth Development Intervention Programs Promoting Character Virtues Among Ugandan Youth Living in Poverty: Innovations using Idiographic Methods and Measures
Funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation

The Compassion International (CI) Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD):
Developing Responsible and Fulfilled Youth: A Multi-National Longitudinal Study of the CI Model of Promoting PYD among Children Living in Poverty
Funded by Compassion International

Human Flourishing
The Early Emergence and Development of Human Flourishing: First Steps to Advancing a Developmental Science of Character Strengths
Funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation

The Science of Learning and Development (SoLD):
Measures and Methods in Studying the Development Continuum from Infancy through Young Adulthood
Funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Templeton World Charity: Character Platform, Phase 2
Global Innovations for Character Development
Funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation

The Thanda Study of Character and Health:
Promoting Healthy Development in South African Youth through Thanda’s Character Virtues.
Funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation

Tufts IARYD and Turnaround for Children Collaboration