Barriers, support, and resilience of prospective first-in-family university students: Australian high school educators' perspective.

First-in-family (FiF) university students-or first generation students-are recognised to have disadvantages and lack social and cultural capital compared with non-FiF students. The challenges FiF students encounter at university are well understood, however, their journey begins while still in high school. We call this high school cohort prospective FiF (PFiF) students and young people whose parents never attended university.

The role of adult facilitators in arts-based extracurricular settings: Perceived factors for success of adult-youth relationships.

Extracurricular arts programmes and supportive adult relationships provide youth with opportunities for positive development, however, more research about how relationships within these programmes develop and what factors and practices adults use to guide their work would help to improve youth programmes' outcomes. Eight Film Club facilitators at an after-school film-making club for students in grades 5 through 8 were interviewed about their perceived their role and what practices they successfully utilised. The semistructured interviews were then thematically analysed.

Building youth leadership skills and community awareness: Engagement of rural youth with a community-based leadership program.

Aims: Community leadership programs have the potential to positively impact many aspects of young people's development, as well as the community. This study, therefore, aims to understand the experiences of the young people, particularly rural youth, involved with the Western Bulldogs Youth Leadership Project (WBYLP), a 7-month program for Year-9 and Year-10 students, and if the developmental assets are a good framework to inform future program development.

Method: A transformative mixed-methods design was used and included surveys with 96 participants at two time points, and semistructured interviews with eight participants.

Neurocognitive perspectives in language outcomes of Early Head Start: Language and cognitive stimulation and maternal depression.

A neurocognitive, developmental framework was used to examine the effectiveness of Early Head Start (EHS) programs. Evidence has shown that caregiver variables impact early brain development. This study aimed to better understand this relation.

Individual and contextual effects of school adjustment on adolescent alcohol use.

This paper examines the effect of a student's own school adjustment as well as the contextual level of school adjustment (the normative level of school adjustment among students in a school) on students' self-reported use of alcohol. Using a dataset of 43,465 male and female 8th grade students from 349 schools across the contiguous United States who participated in a national study of substance use in rural communities between 1996 and 2000, multilevel latent covariate models were utilized to disentangle the individual-level and contextual effects of three school adjustment variables (i.e.