Agenda

March 13, 2001

8:15 a.m.–8:45 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

Welcome, Introductions, and Purpose of the Workshop

9:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.

Threats to Adolescent Well-Being: A Conceptual Framework

Q&A and General Discussion

• What do we know about vulnerability?

• What factors predispose adolescents to risk?

• What vulnerabilities do adolescents with special needs face?

• What buffers exist to reduce risk?

• What do recent studies tell us about trends that are associated with poor outcomes?

• What role(s) does the environment play in vulnerability?

• What opportunities exist for promoting adolescent well-being?

• What are the consequences of failure to support adolescent well-being?

• Can a new conceptual model help us to understand and moderate adolescent vulnerability?

10:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.

Modeling the Payoffs of Interventions to Reduce Adolescent Vulnerability

Q&A and General Discussion

• How can social cost be defined?

• What models help us understand lifelong costs and benefits of risky behaviors in adolescence?

• Why should society be motivated to address the problems experienced by adolescents?

• What can we learn about adolescent vulnerability if we view adolescents as individuals, human capital, or a societal value?

• What is the cost of adolescents’ high-risk behavior to society relative to other societal costs?

• What impact can interventions and public investments have on reducing adolescent vulnerability?

11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Quick Lunch

12:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m.

Adolescent Vulnerability: Measurement and Priority Setting

Q&A and General Discussion

• What approaches can be taken to assess the burden of vulnerability?

• What are the components of the full burden of vulnerability?

• What alternative ways can be used to measure and weight risks?

• What indices are useful to monitor progress in reducing vulnerability?

• What values govern funding priorities and mechanisms?

• What social mechanisms can be used to set priorities to reduce adolescent vulnerabilities?

1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Perceptions of Risk and Vulnerability

Q&A and General Discussion

• What data illuminate our knowledge about adolescents’ beliefs about risk and vulnerability?

• What data illuminate our knowledge about adults’ beliefs about adolescents’ risk and vulnerability?

• How do beliefs about risks influence judgments about risk taking?

• What do we know about adolescents’ abilities to manage risk and opportunity?

• How accurate are adolescents’ and adults’ perceptions of risk? How do they compare? What are the important sources of bias in their perceptions?

3:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Opportunities for Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice

Q&A and General Discussion

4:30 p.m.

Concluding Remarks and Adjourn

Robert William Blum, Center for Adolescent Health, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Martha R. Burt, Urban Institute, Washington, DC

Mark Cohen, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

*Susan P. Curnan, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University

Peter Edelman, Law Center, Georgetown University

Baruch Fischhoff, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Beatrix A. Hamburg, Psychiatry Department, Cornell University Medical College

Lloyd J. Kolbe, Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Richard M. Lerner, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University

Ann S. Masten, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Clea McNeely, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Gary B. Melton, Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, Clemson University

Susan G. Millstein, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of California-San Francisco

Elena O. Nightingale, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council, Washington, DC

Shepherd Smith, The Institute for Youth Development, Washington, DC

Matthew Stagner, Population Studies Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC

Heather Weiss, Harvard Family Research Project, Harvard University

Cheryl Alexander, Department of Population and Family Health Services, Center for Adolescent Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health

Nan Marie Astone, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University

Stephani Becker, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, Palo Alto, CA

Jennifer L. Brooks, Child Trends, Washington, DC

Brett Brown, Social Indicators Research, Child Trends, Washington, DC

Sarah Brown, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC

Barney Cohen, Committee on Population, National Research Council

Nancy Crowell, Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council

Marilyn Dabady, Youth Population and Military Recruitment, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, National Research Council

Paula Duncan, Vermont Agency of Human Services

Valerie Durrant, Committee on Population, National Research Council

Glen Elliott, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California-San Francisco

Ellen Fern, National Partnerships and State and Local Action, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC

Bridget Freeman, Healthy Adolescent Project, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC

Beth Frerking, Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families, College Park, MD

Jennifer Gootman, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

Sandra Graham, Department of Education, University of California-Los Angeles

Robert C. Granger, William T. Grant Foundation, New York, NY

Erica Greenstein, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC

Ruth Toby Gross, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University

Umit Guvenc, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Elizabeth C. Hair, Child Trends, Washington, DC

Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of California-San Francisco

Isadora R. Hare, Office on Adolescent Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD

Jamie Davis Hueston, Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD

Renee R. Jenkins, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine, Howard University

Meredith Kelsey, Office of Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Michele Kipke, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

Laura Lippman, National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC

Andrea MacKay, Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD

Jeffrey Merrill, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

Laura E. Montgomery, Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD

Susan Newcomer, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD

James Nonnemaker, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, University of Minnesota-Twin Citites

Catherine Pino, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Holly Reed, Committee on Population, National Research Council

John Roman, Urban Institute, Washington, DC

Patrick Rooney, National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC

Jane Ross, Center for Social and Economic Studies, National Research Council

Donna E. Shalala, Washington, DC

Andrea Solarz, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC

Laura Sessions Stepp, Style Section, The Washington Post, Washington, DC

Elizabeth Sullivan, Development and Finance Assistant, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC

Rochelle Tafolla, Media Program Associate, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC

Ruby Takanishi, Foundation for Child Development, New York, NY

Bill Treanor, Youth Today, Washington, DC

Sharon Vandivere, Child Trends, Washington, DC

Patience H. White, Pediatric Rheumatology, Children’s National Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

Jennifer Widness, Youth Leadership Team, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC

Henry Willis, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Audrey Yowell, Office of Adolescent Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD

Jonathan F. Zaff, Child Trends, Washington, DC

Diana Zuckerman, National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families, Washington, DC

Janine Zweig, Labor and Social Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC