Filed in: Exploration & Risk Taking | Health & Wellbeing | Learning & Education
In this presentation for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, our Co-executive Director Adriana Galván offers insights into adolescent brain development and discusses how better understanding this developmental period can improve programs and services focused on youth well-being.
“The evidence linking sleep and mental health is a lot tighter, more causal, than the evidence for social media and mental health,” Co-Executive Director Andrew Fuligni explains in a new Associated Press article about the importance of promoting healthy sleep during adolescence.
NSCA member Jacqueline Nesi is interviewed in a New York Times op-ed about how AI chatbots might affect young people by taking key peer roles, and why we should consider regulation backed by lawmakers and research. In the article, Nesi suggests that more research is needed on how these new technologies affect young people specifically, and these results may help us better tailor and scaffold their experiences with them.
