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Addressing the Nationwide Addiction Crisis with Media Literacy Education, Mentoring, Mindfulness, and More

By |January 17th, 2024|Categories: Media Literacy Education News Post, Media Literacy News Post, Mentoring News Post, Mindfulness News Post, Parents & Families News Post, Safe Driving News Post, Social-Emotional Assessment & Learning News Post, Substance Use Prevention News Post|

January 17, 2024, Durham, NC – The federal government and medical facilities across the United States have made substantial efforts to impede [...]

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Use the Drugged Driving Essentials Training to Learn About and Prevent Drug-Impaired Driving

By |December 20th, 2023|Categories: Drugged Driving Resources News Post, Safe Driving News Post, Substance Use Prevention News Post|

December 20, 2023, Durham, NC – Many drivers are aware of the dangers of and steps to prevent alcohol-impaired driving due to [...]

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iRT Awarded Grant for Further Development of a High School Media Literacy Education Program for Sexual Health Promotion

By |November 19th, 2018|Categories: E-Learning News Post, Focus Area News Post, Media Aware for High School Students News Post, Media Literacy News Post, Product News Post, Sexual & Relationship Health News Post|

innovation Research & Training (iRT) is honored to announce that it has received a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) to further develop and evaluate the Media Aware program.   Media Aware is a comprehensive sexual health education program for high school students that uses a media literacy education...

iRT Senior Research Scientist to Conduct Training in Berlin on EEPM

By |June 12th, 2018|Categories: Focus Area News Post, Mentoring News Post, Product News Post|

Dr. Janis Kupersmidt, Senior Research Scientist, will be conducting a 2-day, in-person workshop in Berlin, Germany, on June 25 and 26, 2018, for the Netzwerk Berliner Kinderpatenschaften e.V. The purpose of the network is to provide training on how mentoring programs can assess and improve their youth mentoring program quality.  Participants will learn about the program practice standards for...

iRT Researchers and Collaborators Share Research Findings at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence

By |June 12th, 2018|Categories: Disability News Post, Focus Area News Post, Social-Emotional Assessment & Learning News Post|

Research Scientists at innovation Research and Training are continuously working on advancements in research pertaining to improving outcomes for children and adolescents. Some of iRT’s recent findings in the field of adolescent development were presented at the Society for Research on Adolescents (SRA) Biennial Meeting by Senior Research Scientist Dr. Janis Kupersmidt, along with iRT...

iRT Researchers to Present at the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) Annual Meeting 2018

By |June 12th, 2018|Categories: Drugged Driving Resources News Post, Safe Driving News Post, Substance Use Prevention News Post|

Dr. Rebecca Stelter, Dr. Janis Kupersmidt, and Dr. Allison Schmidt from innovation Research & Training (iRT) travelled to Washington DC to attend the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) and to present a poster titled, “Using the Strategic Prevention Framework to Prevent Drugged Driving.” SPR is an international organization of researchers dedicated to a...

Janis Kupersmidt, innovation Research & Training, innovation Research & Training Receives a William T. Grant Research Award

By |December 26th, 2017|Categories: Connected Scholars News Post, Mentoring News Post|

December 18, 2017 New York, NY--The William T. Grant Foundation is pleased to announce that Janis Kupersmidt, innovation Research & Training, Jean E. Rhodes, Dept. of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Sarah Schwartz, Dept. of Psychology, Suffolk University, and Renee Spencer, Dept. of Human Behavior, School of Social Work, Boston University, received a Research Award under the...

Dr. Kupersmidt to Meet with Enrollment and Match Support Specialists at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Moscow

By |November 27th, 2017|Categories: Building the Foundation for Mentees News Post, Building the Foundation for Parents & Guardians News Post, E-Learning News Post, Mentoring News Post, Parents & Families News Post|

November 14, 2017 - Dr. Janis Kupersmidt, President and Senior Research Scientist at iRT and Mentoring Central, met with mentoring program staff in Moscow at the office of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Dr. Kupersmidt presented findings from iRT’s research on their online mentee training program, Building the Foundation for Mentees, and online parent/guardian training, Building the Foundation for...

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