title: How Schools Can Promote Healthy Development for Newly Arrived Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents: Research Priorities.
abstract: The US education system must find creative and effective ways to foster the healthy development of the approximately 2 million newly arrived immigrant and refugee adolescents, many of whom contend with language barriers, limited prior education, trauma, and discrimination. We identify research priorities for promoting the school success of these youth.
  
  
  
  The study used the 4-phase priority-setting method of the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative. In the final stage, 132 researchers, service providers, educators, and policymakers based in the United States were asked to rate the importance of 36 research options.
  
  
  
  The highest priority research options (range 1 to 5) were: evaluating newcomer programs (mean = 4.44, SD = 0.55), identifying how family and community stressors affect newly arrived immigrant and refugee adolescents' functioning in school (mean = 4.40, SD = 0.56), identifying teachers' major stressors in working with this population (mean = 4.36, SD = 0.72), and identifying how to engage immigrant and refugee families in their children's education (mean = 4.35, SD = 0.62).
  
  
  
  These research priorities emphasize the generation of practical knowledge that could translate to immediate, tangible benefits for schools. Funders, schools, and researchers can use these research priorities to guide research for the highest benefit of schools and the newly arrived immigrant and refugee adolescents they serve.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1914 Andy Holt Avenue, Suite 390, Knoxville, TN 37919.
authors.forename: Clea A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: McNeely
authors.affiliation: Innovation, Policy and Research, Bank Street College of Education, 610 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025.
authors.forename: Lyn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Morland
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205.
authors.forename: S Benjamin
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Doty
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1914 Andy Holt Avenue, Suite 390, Knoxville, TN 37919.
authors.forename: Laurie L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Meschke
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1212 Wallingford Road, Knoxville, TN 32923.
authors.forename: Summer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Awad
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Work, Howard University, 601 Howard Place, NW, Washington, DC 20059.
authors.forename: Altaf
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Husain
authors.affiliation: Yarmouk University, Shafiq Irshidat St, Irbid 21163, Jordan.
authors.forename: Ayat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nashwan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D012036:Refugees; D012106:Research; D012574:Schools; D014481:United States
keywords: adolescent health; immigrant youth; immigrants; refugee youth; refugees; school success