News: 2025/04
In adolescence, every experience matters. Let’s make the ones we design count
April 3, 2025In a new op-ed in Youth Today, CDA advisory board member Karen Pittman references CDA research, reacts to the new Netflix show “Adolescence,” and describes how we can support adolescents by increasing structured opportunities for young people to explore their interests with people and in places that matter to them.
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February 25, 2025: Announcing the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent’s 2024 Annual Report
January 17, 2023: New Guides Help Organizations Build Effective Youth Engagement Programs
August 16, 2021: New Report Examines Intersection of Anti-Black Racism on Youth Development
November 30, 2020: Center for the Developing Adolescent Announces New Advisory Board Members
October 1, 2020: Center for the Developing Adolescent Announces New Leadership
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Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
April 2, 2025NSCA Member Candice Odgers is quoted in a Nature article debating the strength of evidence connecting technology to surging rates of adolescent mental illness. “Science to date does not support the widespread panic around social media and [adolescent] mental health,” says Odgers.