%0 Journal Article %J Child Youth Serv Rev %D 2016 %T Professional and youth perspectives on higher education-focused interventions for youth transitioning from foster care. %A Salazar, Amy M %A Roe, Stephanie S %A Ullrich, Jessica S %A Haggerty, Kevin P %X

Youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood access and succeed in college at much lower rates than the general population. A variety of services exist to support youth with their postsecondary goals, but few if any have evidence for their effectiveness. As part of a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded intervention development project to design Fostering Higher Education, a structured, testable postsecondary access and retention intervention for youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood, focus groups were conducted with community stakeholders to collect recommendations for how to most effectively structure the intervention. Analyses of focus group findings resulted in four theme groups: (1) general recommendations for intervention development; (2) recommendations for an educational advocacy intervention component; (3) recommendations for a mentoring intervention component; and (4) recommendations for a substance abuse prevention intervention component. These themes offered a variety of important insights for developing interventions in a way that is usable for youth and feasible for communities to implement.

%B Child Youth Serv Rev %V 64 %P 23-34 %8 2016 May %G ENG %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27065508?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.02.027 %0 Journal Article %J Dev Psychopathol %D 2016 %T Time-varying effects of families and peers on adolescent marijuana use: Person-environment interactions across development. %A Epstein, Marina %A Hill, Karl G %A Roe, Stephanie S %A Bailey, Jennifer A %A Iacono, William G %A McGue, Matt %A Kristman-Valente, Allison %A Catalano, Richard F %A Haggerty, Kevin P %X

Studies have demonstrated that the effects of two well-known predictors of adolescent substance use, family monitoring and antisocial peers, are not static but change over the course of adolescence. Moreover, these effects may differ for different groups of youth. The current study uses time-varying effect modeling to examine the changes in the association between family monitoring and antisocial peers and marijuana use from ages 11 to 19, and to compare these associations by gender and levels of behavioral disinhibition. Data are drawn from the Raising Healthy Children study, a longitudinal panel of 1,040 youth. The strength of association between family monitoring and antisocial peers and marijuana use was mostly steady over adolescence, and was greater for girls than for boys. Differences in the strength of the association were also evident by levels of behavioral disinhibition: youth with lower levels of disinhibition were more susceptible to the influence of parents and peers. Stronger influence of family monitoring on girls and less disinhibited youth was most evident in middle adolescence, whereas the stronger effect of antisocial peers was significant during middle and late adolescence. Implications for the timing and targeting of marijuana preventive interventions are discussed.

%B Dev Psychopathol %P 1-14 %8 2016 Jul 15 %G ENG %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27417425?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1017/S0954579416000559