Children of military personnel face stress when a parent deploys. OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to determine the effect of parental military deployment on the relative rate of outpatient visits for mental and behavioral health disorders in children aged 3 to 8 years.
Researchers aimed to determine the effect of parental military deployment on the relative rate of outpatient visits for mental and behavioral health disorders in children aged three to eight years.
Using data from the state evaluation of Michigan 21st Century Community Learning Centers, this study employed multilevel modeling to examine racial/ethnic and programmatic factors relevant to two aspects of after-school program participation: youths voluntary participation and parents reasons for
This article aims to understand youths’ voluntary participation in afterschool programs (ASPs), as well as reasons their parents’ reasons for enrolling them, taking into consideration: race/ethnicity, program quality, and program policies.