The Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS) is one of three sister studies originally funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to study delinquency and drug use. RYDS was initiated in 1986 to specifically study the causes and consequences of delinquency and drug use in an urban sample of adolescents. A sample of 1,000 seventh and eighth grade students were selected from the Rochester, New York public schools during the 1987-1988 academic year to participate in the study.
RYDS participants have been followed through four phases of data collection (Phase 1 - 1988-1992; Phase 2 - 1994-1997; Phase 3 - 2003-2006; Phase 4 - 2021-2025). Phase 4 of RYDS is currently funded by the National Institute of Justice (15PNIJ-23-AG-01491-MUMU). Prior funding for RYDS comes from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (86-JN-CX-0007, 96-MU-FX-0014, 2004-MU-FX-0062), the National Institute of Justice (2020-MU-MU-0017), the National Institute of Drug Abuse (R01DA020195, R01DA005512), the National Science Foundation (SBR-9123299), and the National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH56486, R01MH63386).
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Principal Investigator and Data Manager: Megan Bears Augustyn, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator: Megan Kurlychek, PhD
Investigator: Kimberly L. Henry, PhD
