Supporting Youth in the Context of Family

Dr. Velma McBride Murry, a professor at Vanderbilt University, talks with Dr. Andrew Fuligni about her extensive research on African-American parents and youth, and how she has used this information to develop and implement the Pathways for African American Success Program (PAAS) to enhance families’ skills to help their pre-teens make good decisions as they prepare to enter high school.

To learn more about this subject, check out the following resources:

Study: Longitudinal study of cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth (2021)

Study: Excavating new constructs for family stress theories in the context of everyday life experiences of Black American families (2018)

Study: Pathways for African American Success: Results of 3-arm RCT to test the effects of technology-based delivery for rural African American families (2019)

Video: Co-author Cady Perkel, ASU, describing the PAAS program

Study: It Takes a Village: Protecting African American Youth in the Context of Racism (2009)