Location:

Philadelphia, PA

Event Dates:

June 2002

As the first in a series of forums on public policy and health issues, The Sunnylands Trust sponsored a June 2002 conference on "Reducing Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Approach." The meeting brought together over 60 researchers and more than 60 participants from private foundations, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other research centers to synthesize knowledge from across six disciplines about risks to adolescent development. The forum addressed adolescent suicide, gambling, tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse, pregnancy, and HIV and sexually transmitted disease. Its sessions evaluated the idea that many risky behaviors have common developmental pathways and therefore that interventions to help young people could be developed to prevent a range of risks rather than just influence them one at a time. The insights of the conference were digested into a book titled Reducing Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Approach, published by Sage. 

Partner: The American Academy of Political and Social Science