An exciting wave of brain and behavioral science has emerged, offering profound insights into the critical developmental phase of adolescence. Loosely defined as spanning from puberty to age 25, this period brims with opportunities for exploration, identity formation, and even healing from prior traumas. We owe it to our young people respond to this new frontier with a sense of urgency. Adolescence is a dynamic period of biological, cognitive, and social changes that make youth and young adults especially sensitive to certain types of learning and experiences, creating opportunities to influence lifetime wellbeing, mitigate the effects of earlier adversity, and strengthen communities.
In this scientist-led session, the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent will discuss this rapid period of growth, the social systems that intersect and impact adolescence, and what the philanthropic sector can do to better support young people. We will explore things foundations can do through a funder tool to integrate developmental principles into your grant strategy and decision making. Leading developmental researcher and Co-Executive Director at the Center for the Developing Adolescent, Andrew Fuligni will share the funder tool and explain how to use it. Learn how key developmental goals for adolescence, can help drive change within philanthropy and help advance better outcomes for youth and young adults.
Please join us for this session. Lunch will be served.
The training was made possible thanks to the partnership of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia.