Promoting Safe Driving in Teens with Plan My Ride: Prevent Opioid Use and Driving
October 15, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is dedicated to preventing distracted and impaired driving and helping drivers, prevention professionals, and community [...]
iRT Researcher Offers Workshops to Empower Parents to Practice Media Literacy Strategies with Their Children
October 07, 2024, Durham, NC – Research has shown that tweens and teens make healthier decisions when their parents have high-quality conversations [...]
Promoting Safe Driving in Teens with Plan My Ride: Plan to Avoid Driving High
September 27, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is dedicated to preventing distracted and impaired driving and helping drivers, prevention professionals, and community [...]
Plan My Ride Program Awarded for Innovative Design, Content, and Video Components
May 08, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce that the Plan My Ride program has received a [...]
Teaching High School Students Research-Based Strategies to Cope with Stress and Reduce Risky Behaviors
May 08, 2024, Durham, NC – A recent meta-analysis found that adolescents are experiencing significantly higher levels of anxiety in [...]
iRT Researchers Discuss Sexual Health and Media Literacy Education at Fact Forward’s Adolescent Health Spring Summit
May 03, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT researchers presented at Fact Forward’s 2024 Adolescent Health Spring Summit last month to [...]
Promoting Safe Driving in Teens with Plan My Ride: Training Young Drivers on Driving Essentials
April 11, 2024, Durham, NC – April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, which provides an important opportunity to spread [...]
College Students Find New Sexual Health Education Program Relevant and Engaging
March 28, 2025, Durham, NC – In a recent study, nearly 40% of community college students reported that they had not received school-based sex [...]
Promoting Safe Driving in Teens with Plan My Ride: Prevent Opioid Use and Driving
October 15, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is dedicated to preventing distracted and impaired driving and helping drivers, [...]
iRT Researcher Offers Workshops to Empower Parents to Practice Media Literacy Strategies with Their Children
October 07, 2024, Durham, NC – Research has shown that tweens and teens make healthier decisions when their [...]
Promoting Safe Driving in Teens with Plan My Ride: Plan to Avoid Driving High
September 27, 2024, Durham, NC – iRT is dedicated to preventing distracted and impaired driving and helping drivers, [...]
iRT Researcher Contributes to the Development of a Guide for Youth Seeking Mentoring Relationships
November 29, 2023, Durham, NC - iRT Research Scientist Dr. Rebecca Stelter joined a working group with other researchers from the National Mentoring Resource Center [...]
A Guide to Finding Evidence-Based and Research-Informed Training Programs for Mentoring
November 28, 2023, Durham, NC – Implementing high quality training is an integral step in the process of building and maintaining a successful mentoring program. [...]
iRT Publishes Chapter in Media Literacy and Media Education Research Methods: A Handbook
November 17, 2023, Durham, NC – In an increasingly digital world, youth and adults are consistently exposed to a barrage of media messages. Some media [...]
A Guide to Finding Evidence-Based Programs for Substance Use Prevention
November 17, 2023, Durham, NC – Substance misuse can have many harmful effects on the health and daily lives of young people; however, decades of [...]
iRT to Present at The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality’s Annual Conference
October 31, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT Research Scientists Drs. Christina Dodson and Reina Evans-Paulson will present at the 2023 meeting of The Society for [...]
iRT Releases New Asset-Based, Goal-Oriented Activity Guide for Youth Mentors
October 25, 2023, Durham, NC – iRT is pleased to announce the release of Building Assets Together: A Guide for Youth Mentors. Before and [...]