The Unique Abilities and Needs of the Adolescent Brain

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a new report on the developing adolescent brain. In The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth, researchers focus on the outsized ability of the teen brain to learn, grow, and change, a quality that can be leveraged to help adolescents positively shape their lives. The report offers a variety of policy and practice recommendations to help education, health, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems erase inequities and capitalize on this critical stage of development.

Find the full report here: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25388/the-promise-of-adolescence-realizing-opportunity-for-all-youth