Youth-Police Interactions and Emotional and Behavioral Health During the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
About This Grant
Emotional and behavioral health (EBH) during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood is critical to long-term health and wellbeing. When EBH is compromised, it places young people at risk for mental health and substance use disorders and other chronic health conditions into adulthood. Adults in the community, including police officers, play an influential role in youth development and EBH. In urban areas of the United States (US), interactions between police and community members are commonplace, and a large portion involve youth and young adults. Young people may have varied responses to these interactions depending on their type and situational features (e.g., whether the interaction is direct or vicarious). Recent data suggests youth-police interactions and their features are tied to adolescents’ psychosocial functioning (e.g., executive functioning, self-regulation). Moreover, psychosocial functioning has been linked to EBH during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood. Yet how youth-police interactions and their features relate to young adult EBH — and the role of psychosocial functioning as a developmental pathway — remains unclear. Informed by the biopsychosocial framework and developmental psychopathology, the proposed R01 will use a convergent parallel mixed methods design to examine associations between youth-police interactions and young adult EBH, focusing on a viable developmental pathway via psychosocial functioning and the role of external protective factors. We will employ data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), a longitudinal birth cohort study of young people across 20 urban US areas (N=2,990). In Aim 1, we will examine associations between youth-police interactions and young adult EBH outcomes (emotional wellness, mental and behavioral health problems, substance use; Aim 1a), and test psychosocial functioning as a mediating developmental pathway (Aim 1b), assessing situational features of youth-police interactions as moderators throughout. In Aim 2, we will evaluate how external protective factors (e.g., teacher support, caregiver-child relationships, neighborhood collective efficacy) moderate associations between youth-police interactions and EBH. In Aim 3, we will conduct life history interviews with 120 young adults (ages 18-24) in urban areas across three states reporting direct or vicarious police interactions to explore how these experiences, their situational features, psychosocial functioning, and protective factors relate to EBH (Aim 3a), and integrate quantitative and qualitative findings to generate data-informed recommendation for improving young adult EBH (Aim 3b). EBH is foundational to health across the lifespan. The EBH of young adults in urban areas who report youth-police interactions remains understudied despite widespread police presence in these settings. Study goals reflect NICHD's scientific priorities of improving adolescent health during the transition to adulthood, elucidating developmental mechanisms tied to health outcomes, and identifying protective factors that promote resilience and EBH across the life course.
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Youth-Police Interactions and Emotional and Behavioral Health During the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood is a NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant providing up to $561K for university, nonprofit, healthcare org. Applications are due 2031-02-28 (open). Check eligibility and apply with FindGrants.
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Up to $561K
2031-02-28
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Youth-Police Interactions and Emotional and Behavioral Health During the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood provides up to $561K per award from NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Actual award sizes depend on the scope of your project, available program funds, and the number of applicants, so build a budget that reflects realistic, allowable costs rather than the maximum figure.
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