Setting-Up The Asian Research Center for Child & Adolescent Development (ARCCADE)
Global Prevention Leaders congratulate Malaysia and Dr Brendan Gomez
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Dr Brendan Gomez speaks about ARCCADE and Mentoring Youth on TV
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The Mentoring Youth Program funded by the United Nations
Mentoring Youth developed by Dr Brendan Gomez is now a model program for the region in Asia
How the work on Positive Youth Development & Prevention Science began
There are 3 focus areas in promoting positive youth development (PYD): positive people, positive places, and positive opportunities.
Go to: http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ772423
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Dr Brendan Gomez speaks and introduces
Positive Youth Development Dr Brendan Gomez & Professor Mark Greenberg at Penn State - speaking on Positive Youth Development
Dr Brendan Gomez with Professors Ed Smith & Linda Caldwell at Penn State - speaking on Positive Youth Development
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Dr Brendan Gomez & Professor Jenn Maggs at Penn State - speaking on Positive Youth Development
Dr Brendan Gomez with Dr Karen Pittman - Award-Winning Leader in Youth Development
Dr Brendan Gomez with Psychologist Dr Peter Benson at Search Institute speaking on Positive Youth Development
Dr Brendan Gomez & Professor Matt Sanders at University of Queensland speaking on Positive Youth Development
Dr Brendan Gomez with Professor David Hawkins at University of Washington speaking on Positive Youth Development
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click on buttons below to see and hear more on large-scale PYD research interventions - CTC, PROSPER, MCAW
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Dr Brendan in the media and community on Positive Youth Development
Hear the Interview here: Adolescent Self-Image, BFM Radio.
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Addicted-2-Life: A Nationally-Recognized Youth Substance Prevention Project
Addicted-2-Life was a psychosocial prevention project that Dr Brendan Gomez had developed and initiated with students from his Substance-Abuse Prevention Class. The project spanned the length of 1999 - 2000. The hand-pledges from thousands of young people across the country formed a Malaysian-Book of Records 2.2km long Banner of Life - Pledges of youth towards a Drug-Free Nation. It got the support of Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohammed in Putrajaya on 30 August 2000. The project was covered by major local and international press, and kept HELP University in the news for months.
Dr B's International Research Publications in Positive Youth Development
Selected Publications
Across publications, my work has been read 3706 times and cited 153 times (as of 11-11-2024). Full list: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brendan-Gomez
Across publications, my work has been read 3706 times and cited 153 times (as of 11-11-2024). Full list: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brendan-Gomez
Community-wide Youth Interventions
Research Impact: How to sustain stakeholder coalitions and online technical assistance to almost 80 communities as 2 key successes of community-wide interventions for youth prevention and PYD.
Recognition received: Penn State’s Prevention Fellowship
Youth Wellbeing & Factors Associated with Positive Youth Development
Research Impact: We now have a tested framework to measure adolescent wellbeing in Malaysia, and associated school social factors
Recognition received: Society for Research in Adolescence Award 2006
Mentoring & Social-Emotional Intelligence for Positive Youth Development
Research Impact: We now have an SEI-infused mentoring program that significantly improves adolescent wellbeing for promising system-wide change
Recognition received: United Nations 2006 – 2007.
Research Impact: How to sustain stakeholder coalitions and online technical assistance to almost 80 communities as 2 key successes of community-wide interventions for youth prevention and PYD.
Recognition received: Penn State’s Prevention Fellowship
- Greenberg, M., Feinberg, M, Gomez, B.J. & Osgood, W. (2009). Testing a Model of Coalition Functioning and Sustainability. A Comprehensive Study of Pennsylvania Communities That Care. In T. Stockwell, P. Gruenewald, T. Toumbourou & W. Loxley (Eds), Preventing Harmful Substance Use: The Evidence Base for Policy and Practice. England: Wiley.
- Validation of an Integrated Web-Based/Technical Assistance Consultant Model. Feinberg, M., Gomez, B.J., Puddy, R.W. & Greenberg, M.T. (2008). Health Education & Behavior, 35 (1), 9-21.
- Sustainability of Community Coalitions: An Evaluation of Communities That Care. Gomez, B.J., Greenberg, M.T. & Feinberg, M. (2005). Prevention Science, 6 (3) 199-202.
- Gomez, B.J., Feinberg, M. & Greenberg, M.T. (2003, June). The readiness of prevention coalitions in a university extension and school partnership project in implementing youth resiliency programs. Presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington D.C.
- Gomez, B.J., Greenberg, M.T. & Feinberg, M. (2002). A Study of 20 Coalitions under Communities That Care. The Communities That Care Recognition Conference, 2002, Hershey, Pennsylvania, attended by The First Lady and Governor of Pennsylvania.
Youth Wellbeing & Factors Associated with Positive Youth Development
Research Impact: We now have a tested framework to measure adolescent wellbeing in Malaysia, and associated school social factors
Recognition received: Society for Research in Adolescence Award 2006
- Measuring Psychosocial Well-being in Malaysian Adolescents. Gomez, B.J. (2006). Presented at the Biannual Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, United States.
- Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning and School Supportiveness in Malaysia. Gomez, B.J. (2005).
- Gomez, B.J. (2003). Positive Psychological Functioning in Adolescents: Psychological Wellbeing, Positive Youth Development, and Universal school-based prevention programs (research completed for doctoral comps, unpublished)
Mentoring & Social-Emotional Intelligence for Positive Youth Development
Research Impact: We now have an SEI-infused mentoring program that significantly improves adolescent wellbeing for promising system-wide change
Recognition received: United Nations 2006 – 2007.
- Promoting Positive Youth Development and Creating System-wide Change. Gomez, B.J. & Ang, P.M. (2007). Theory Into Practice, 46 (2), 97-104.
- Effectiveness of A Preventive Intervention Among Adolescents (in schools): Qualitative Data on The Mentoring Malaysia Programme. Ang, P.M. & Gomez, B.J. (2017). Presented at USM-International Conference on Social Sciences 2017
Other
- Gomez, B.J. & Ang, P.M. (2020). Emotional Intelligence 4.0 – The Mother of All Revolutions. In Gurubatham, M.R. (Ed), Advancing Innovation and Sustainable outcomes in International Graduate Education. IGI Global. Manuscript submitted https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4015
- Ang, P.M. & Gomez, B.J. (2020). Knowledge maps to enhance student learning and experience. Presented at The NUBS International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Jan 2020.
- Gomez, B.J., & Ang, P.M. (2015). Can Psychosocial Factors impact Youth Future Career and Financial Security. The Global Youth Study. Presented at The Australian Academy of Business Social Sciences APCBSS, Kuala Lumpur
- Ang, P.M., Gomez, B.J., Zaharom N. and Subramaniam G. (2012). Youth Pre-marital Sex & Baby Abandonment: Towards Prevention and Action in Higher Education (Findings from a nationwide study of youth across Malaysia). In Y.L. Koo, S. Munir and K. Sarjit, eds., Sustaining Higher Education Policy through Research, pp 123-134. UiTM Press.
- Gomez, B. J. & Ang, P. M. (2011). Youth Spirituality: The Influence of Parents, Campuses & Youth Aspirations. Malaysian Psychology Conference.
- Ang, P. M., Gomez, B.J. & Coatsworth, J. D. (2010). Key Positive Psychological Dimensions of Adolescent Wellness: Voices of Youth Practitioners in Malaysia. 3rd ASEAN Regional Union of Psychological Societies Congress.
- Gomez, B.J. (1997). Parenting Education: A primary prevention approach in the area of mental and emotional health of parents and children (research completed for MA, unpublished)
- Gomez, B.J. (1997). The response of emotionally wounded children in residential treatment using Animal-Assisted Therapy and traditional non-animal intervention (research completed for MA, unpublished)
- Gomez, B.J. (1994). Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and In-situ Hybridization in the Detection of Human Herpesvirus and its association with Oral Carcinoma (unpublished research thesis)
Projects & Grants
- Happy Schools - Social-Emotional Learning within Teaching and the School Environment in Achieving Psychological Readiness for Industry Revolution 4.0. LRGS proposed budget of RM4 million across 4 years. Multi-University collaboration: Gomez (Project Lead), Ang (Nottingham), Krauss (UPM, Hashimah (USM), Greenberg (Penn State U), Coatsworth (Colorado State U), Santiago (Iowa State U), Romeo (Nottingham), Nain (Nottingham), and Loh (HELP). Builds on success of Mentoring Malaysia project with UN in 2006-08. Submitted in 2019 (unsuccessful due to change of gov & then C19 pandemic). Will resubmit. Promising feedback from MOE.
- Global Youth Study: Youth Optimism, Depression and Career Development (2015-2016). Role: Co-Principle Investigator with Dr Patricia Ang. Grant from University of Nottingham.
- Large-scale school-community collaborative partnerships in mobilizing leaders and selecting empirically-tested prevention programs in addressing adolescent problem behaviors (2000 – 05). Title: Communities That Care and PROSPER. Role: Doctoral Coordinator for Communities That Care at the Prevention Research Center at Pennsylvania State University. Grants: PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency, NIDA.
- Pilot mentoring program addressing adolescent psychosocial wellbeing and distress in schools. Title: Mentoring Malaysia. Role: Principle Investigator. Grants from United Nations, Nestle, Canadian Association of Malaysia (2006- 08). Approval by: Ministry of Education.
- Adolescent psychosocial wellbeing and psychosocial distress in Malaysian schools. Title: Malaysian Child & Adolescent Wellbeing (MCAW) Study. Role: Principle Investigator. Grants from Jacobs Foundation, Search Institute, Bennett Prevention Research Center (2003 – 04). Approval by Ministry of Education.