Activity Description
In 1996, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families established the Forum on Adolescence to sustain and extendthe work begun by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development a decade earlier. With core support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Forum has become a national focal point for authoritative, nonpartisan analysis of research and policy issues that relate to adolescents and their families.
The Forum's success has provided impetus for its evolution into a standing committee within the NRC and IOM; the Committee on Adolescent Health and Development. As a standing committee, this group had greater authority and flexibility. Unlike the Forum, the committee was able to establish ad-hoc committees, convene workshops, and author reports.
The Committee was made up of approximately 20 individuals who represented a wide spectrum of expertise -- adolescent medicine, public health, mental health, adolescent development (cognitive/social), family systems/parenting, neurology/endocrinology, education, youth service organizations, public policy (federal/state), local elected and appointed officials, labor market/economics, community development, religious organizations, social work, criminology, philanthropy, business/private sector, and statistics/methodology.
In March 2005, the Committee was dissolved and its portfolio of activities was integrated into the BCYF agenda.
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