University-Community-School Intervention

A cutting-edge psychosocial prevention program called PROSPER involving 2 major universities, multiple communities, and multiple schools in the United States. The photos below are of one event that brought together team leaders of various players including the youth in 2004.

Society for Prevention Research: 2004 Conference in Quebec, Canada

Presenting on the Malaysian Child & Adolescent Wellbeing (MCAW) Study.

Adolescent psychosocial functioning and school supportiveness in Malaysia. Note that work has since been advanced.

Dr Brendan worked with a multi-disciplinary team across the United States on project and research management. In Communities That Care (CTC), the team collaborated with about a hundred communities in intervention programming (applied research) for youth development.
Dr Brendan was involved in understanding Risk & Protective Factors, Pre- and Post Testing, Model Building, Data management, empirical Analyses using SAS and SPSS, Result publications and presentations to various stakeholders.

Promoting Positive Youth Development in Schools

This article discusses three focal areas in promoting positive youth development (PYD) in schools: positive people, positive places, and positive opportunities. Given school personnel workload and federal policies that emphasize academic achievement, it remains a goal to focus on holistic adolescent outcomes and school outcomes that increase both adolescent psychosocial wellbeing and societal well-being.
Go to: http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ772423

Nationally-Recognized Substance Abuse Project

Addicted-2-Life was a psychosocial prevention project that Dr Brendan had developed and initiated with his students from the 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.