Young Workers: Interdisciplinary Education Program

青年工人：跨学科教育计划

• 批准号: 7130922
• 负责人: CAROL Wolf RUNYAN
• 金额: $ 9.23万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-31 至 2009-08-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7130922
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child psychology; child welfare; clinical research; disease /disorder proneness /risk; health education; health related legal; human data; information dissemination; interdisciplinary collaboration; occupational disease /disorder; occupational hazard; occupational health /safety; training; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Working for pay is a usual part of adolescence throughout North America, with about 80% of high school students employed. A 1998 report of the Institute of Medicine identified issues associated with young worker safety and youth development, making recommendations about surveillance, research and interventions to improve worker safety, relying mostly on public health and youth development literature. Though work can be an important component of development, helping adolescents and young adults acquire work skills, exercise autonomy, and develop a greater degree of competence and financial independence depending, in part, on the nature of the work experience itself, there are many downsides. Laws designed to protect them from work hazards or excessive hours are often breached by employers and enforcement is limited. Even work in conformance with the laws may be dangerous; in part because of poor training and supervision, with supervision frequently provided by other adolescents rather than by adults. Work can distract youth from schoolwork, provide opportunities for undesirable peer influence, and provide disposable income that may be associated with increased substance use. Further education of professionals is needed to facilitate development and dissemination of evidence-based strategies to optimize work experiences for adolescents. Though several disciplines address the benefits and costs of work for youth, how to minimize risks and enhance benefits is unclear. The literatures remain distinct and are neither well synthesized nor applied in practice and there is no integrated training for leaders that draws on existing evidence or disseminates it broadly. Facilitated by a multidisciplinary Joint Organizing Group, this series of educational programs is designed to increase scholarly exchange and advance the education of new leaders in research, occupational health and safety practice, work policy and business so as to improve conditions for young workers. This work, jointly supported by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, addresses one of the major themes of the R25 mechanism; that is, "to facilitate the development of interdisciplinary scientists or the conduct of interdisciplinary science related to population." The project is guided by the following four aims. Aim 1: To enhance interdisciplinary scholarship related to the health and safety effects of youth labor by engaging a diverse group of senior and junior investigators, including doctoral students, with policy and program leaders concerned with various aspects of youth employment; Aim 2: To synthesize and make more accessible to learners the current information addressing how theories and principles of youth development, organization of work, and health and safety practices influence the risks or benefits of youth labor; Aim 3: To engage an array of scholars and practitioners in setting an agenda that will facilitate more integrated approaches to training researchers, practitioners and business leaders in improving the quality of work for young workers; and Aim 4: To develop strategies to improve the continued dissemination of knowledge from research on youth employment to future students, practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and business leaders.

描述（由申请人提供）：在北美，为工资而工作是青少年的普遍现象，约80%的高中生有工作。医学研究所1998年的一份报告确定了与青年工人安全和青年发展有关的问题，主要根据公共卫生和青年发展方面的文献，就改善工人安全的监测、研究和干预措施提出了建议。虽然工作可以是发展的重要组成部分，帮助青少年和年轻人获得工作技能，行使自主权，并在一定程度上取决于工作经验本身的性质，发展更大程度的能力和经济独立，但也有许多缺点。旨在保护他们免受工作危险或超时工作的法律经常被雇主违反，执法也很有限。即使是合法的工作也可能是危险的；部分原因是缺乏培训和监督，监督往往是由其他青少年而不是成年人提供的。工作可以分散青少年对学业的注意力，为不良的同伴影响提供机会，并提供可能与增加物质使用有关的可支配收入。需要对专业人员进行进一步教育，以促进制定和传播循证战略，优化青少年的工作经验。虽然有几个学科涉及青年工作的收益和成本，但如何将风险降到最低并提高收益尚不清楚。文献仍然是不同的，既没有很好地综合，也没有在实践中应用，也没有对领导人进行综合培训，利用现有证据或广泛传播这些证据。在多学科联合组织小组的推动下，这一系列教育项目旨在加强学术交流，促进研究、职业健康与安全实践、工作政策和商业方面的新领导者的教育，从而改善年轻工人的条件。这项工作由安大略省神经创伤基金会共同支持，解决了R25机制的主要主题之一；也就是说，“促进与人口有关的跨学科科学家的发展或跨学科科学的开展。”该项目以以下四个目标为指导。目标1：通过让包括博士生在内的不同群体的高级和初级研究人员与关注青年就业各个方面的政策和方案领导人合作，加强与青年劳动的健康和安全影响有关的跨学科奖学金；目标2：综合并使学习者更容易获得有关青年发展、工作组织以及健康和安全做法的理论和原则如何影响青年劳动的风险或利益的当前信息；目标3：让一系列学者和实践者参与制定议程，以促进更综合的方法来培训研究人员、实践者和商业领袖，以提高青年工人的工作质量；目标4：制定战略，以改善对未来学生、从业者、政策制定者、研究人员和商业领袖的青年就业研究知识的持续传播。