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Projects Past & Present

Monitoring School Violence - University of Michigan members collaborate with partners in Israel on a monitoring model to understand violence in schools in order to prepare teachers and school administrators to respond with appropriate interventions and to monitor their effects.
Conflict Resolution - This collaboratory uses a qualitative approach to analyze and describe conflict among youth groups. Sites have been established in South Africa, Israel, Lansing (Michigan) and Muskegon (Michigan).

Noah from Head Start makes a play-do pancake with Gwen. Watch the movie. (32 sec) (Requires Quicktime player.)

Family Development Project - Partners at the University of Michigan and Detroit Head Start work to implement a mental health screening and services assessment tool that is useful and relevant to the Head Start Program, service providers, parents, and researchers.
EZLink - Serves at-risk, economically disadvantaged families and youth in Detroit, Michigan by offering an information and communication technology space that challenges youth not only to complete their secondary education and to gain employment skills, but to become technologically literate.
MexUSCan - Partners in Mexico. Canada and the U.S. study the impact of NAFTA policies on the socio-economic well-being of Latina/o youth in Toronto, Detroit and Monterrey. The impact is assessed using current data focusing on employment, health, education, housing, and crime rate.
Wayne County Foster Care - Working to develop evaluation methods for the Wayne County Pilot Foster Care Initiative, an incentive-based, managed care approach to delivering child welfare services. In partnership with foster care providers and agencies throughout Wayne County.
Youth as Community Builders - This collaboratory is a cross-national project designed to help develop youth participation in creating community change. This project brings together young leaders from four community-based youth organizations in Chile, Paraguy, and New Mexico.

Another Ann Arbor - There are two purposes of this collaboratory: To increase the Internet usage and computer skills of African American youth in Washtenaw County and to create a website that promotes the goals and mission of Another Ann Arbor by providing a means of communication and information for the African American community.
Battle Creek Teen Pregnancy Prevention - This is a broad-based coalition includes all sectors of the community and involved citizens who share the desire that "our daughters not become pregnant while they are still children". An online community and interaction are a supportive component of this effort.
Comnet Community Centers (C3) - The Children and Youth C3 provides an interactive online community tailored in online content, membership, and information technologies for nonprofit professionals serving children and youth.

Poverty and Early Childhood - This collaboratory was an international partnership composed scholars from the United States and South Africa. The scholars involved shared a common interest in the development of policy and service programs for young at-risk children of African descent and their families.

Last updated: 11/18/02

University of Michigan Global Program on Youth, School of Social Work Building, Room 3743
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