Customize Mentoring Trainings to Reflect Your Program
March 27, 2024, Durham, NC - When offering training to mentors, mentees, and parents/caregivers of mentees involved your mentoring program, you likely [...]
New Version of Plan My Ride Available Now
March 13, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Plan My Ride [...]
The State of Substance Use Among Adolescents in the United States
March 06, 2024, Durham, NC – As decades of research has shown, trends in adolescent substance use in the United States [...]
iRT Awarded Grant to Identify Characteristics of Effective Mentors of Children of Incarcerated Parents
October 10, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the National [...]
iRT Researchers Present on the Importance of Media Literacy Education-Based Sex Education Programs for the ECHO@edu Program
September 25, 2023, Durham, NC – Research has shown that comprehensive, inclusive, medically-accurate sex education can positively impact youth and [...]
iRT to Develop Virtual Reality Training for Law Enforcement to Detect Impaired Drivers
September 20, 2023, Durham, NC – Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of preventable death for both children and [...]
iRT Reflects on the 2023 National Prevention Network Conference
August 31, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT President Dr. Janis Kupersmidt and Research Scientist Dr. Rebecca Stelter represented Prevention Central, [...]
iRT Publishes Research Related to Implementation of Sexual Health Programming at Community Colleges
October 20, 2025, Durham, NC – Providing sexual and relationship health programming is a key way that colleges can help prevent sexual assault, sexually [...]
Customize Mentoring Trainings to Reflect Your Program
March 27, 2024, Durham, NC - When offering training to mentors, mentees, and parents/caregivers of mentees involved your [...]
New Version of Plan My Ride Available Now
March 13, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce the release of a new version of [...]
The State of Substance Use Among Adolescents in the United States
March 06, 2024, Durham, NC – As decades of research has shown, trends in adolescent substance use [...]
2021 Redesigned iRT Website Release
Durham, NC, March 17, 2021 - innovation, Research & Training (iRT) launched a new website for clients, prospects, and partners to learn more about the [...]
Dr. Stelter Presents at the 2021 Virtual National Mentoring Summit
Dr. Rebecca Stelter, a Research Scientist II at iRT, will be co-presenting at the virtual 2021 National Mentoring Summit https://www.mentoring.org/national-mentoring-summit/ on Intentional program planning to [...]
iRT Awarded NIDILRR Grant to Expand Research on Novel, Web-based Intervention for Teens with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
iRT is expanding research on adolescents with an intellectual and developmental disability (I/DD) with funding from the Administration for Community Living supporting a study on [...]
New iRT Parent-Child Communication Program Proven Effective
Media Aware Parent – iRT’s new program to help parents talk with their pre-teens and teens about sex, relationships, and media – is an effective way to bolster communication and healthy attitudes in teens, according to an article that was published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Media Aware Parent is the latest program in iRT’s Media Aware series, which...
iRT’s Prevention Central Team Publishes Chapter on Sexual Socialization in the International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy
Media literacy education (MLE) is one of the primary strategies used by Prevention Central research teams at iRT to develop innovative, evidence-based programs. Prevention Central scientists are on the forefront of researching the influence of media on adolescents’ sexual attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, and have found that MLE is an effective way to promote adolescent sexual health.
iRT Scientist Contributes to Chapter on Media Literacy and Smoking in the International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy
For more than a decade, scientists at iRT have conducted groundbreaking research on the impact of media literacy education for substance abuse prevention. Recently, Dr. Janis Kupersmidt, an expert on this topic, co-authored a chapter entitled “Media Literacy and Smoking” in the newly-published International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy. The encyclopedia – which is available...
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