i4Y - Innovations for Youth

On February 5th, 2025, Berkeley Social Welfare announced that its current Interim Dean, Susan Stone, i4Y Steering Committee Member, and the Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Professor of Social Services in Public Education, will assume the role of Dean on July 1st, 2025.

On Monday, February 10th, 2025, i4Y is co-sponsoring a colloquium with the Institute for Human Development (IHD). Please join us for "K-12 as a Key Setting for Human Development: Pathways to Enhancing School Belonging" The colloquium will feature Panelists Sean Darling-Hammond, PhD, JD, Brian F. Villa, DrPH, Devin Corrigan and Allison Firestone, PhD, and Discussant Susan Stone, PhD. It will take place at Berkeley Way West, Room 1102, from 12:10 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The review, “Youth-Led Participatory Action Research and Developmental Science: Intersections and Innovations,” was recently published in an open-access volume of the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology.

In December 2024, i4Y hosted its 2nd Community Engagement Research Network Convening at the Faculty Club at UC Berkeley. There was a great turnout from across campus, including various disciplines and from various key administration offices supporting research. Campus representative speakers included Lok Sui (AVCR), Vicky Plaut (VP Faculty), and Lisa Garcia Bedolla (VP of Grad Studies), as well as campus investigators Khatharya Um, Anna Serra-Llobet and Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos.