The NH Youth Retention Initiative is a research program designed to deepen understanding of how youth and emerging adults are considered in efforts to retain and recruit young people as a key part of New Hampshire’s community, economic, and workforce development plans. As youth development and education researchers, we contribute to this work by exploring how different cultural and individual factors shape youths’ future planning in ways that expand or restrict the options they believe are available to them. We’re indebted to our community partners and funders who make our research possible.
Scholarly and applied products of this research can be found in this collection.
Submissions from 2024
Outdoor recreation shows promise as an equitable context for youth informal STEM learning in amenity-rich rural areas, Jayson Seaman, Andrew D. Coppens, Cindy Hartman, Amanda Bastoni, Kate Moscouver, Courtney LaChaine, and Janet Gronneberg
“The Hustle’s Real”: Exploring Outdoor Recreation Careers Using the Psychology of Working Theory, Jayson Seaman, Jake Martin, Cindy L. Hartman, and Andrew D. Coppens
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)- Strategies for Engaging Rural Youth Co-Researchers with Informal STEM Learning, Amanda Bastoni, Jayson Seaman, Andrew D. Coppens, Cindy Hartman, Kate Moscouver, and Courtnie LaChaine
"Hyperlocal" Career Pathway Programs in New Hampshire: Collaborating to Support Youth at the Secondary/Postsecondary Transition, Jayson Seaman
STEM Pathways for Rural Youth: Experience Sampling Feedback and Scoring Manual, Amanda Bastoni, Sam Catherine Johnston, Andrew D. Coppens, Jayson Seaman, and Cindy Hartman
Submissions from 2023
Youth identity and postsecondary decision making in a rural state: evidence of a College for All master narrative, Jayson Seaman, Cindy L. Hartman, Andrew D. Coppens, Erin H. Sharp, Sarah Jusseaume, and Molly Donovan
UNH Honors Sustainability Champions at Third Annual Award Event, Keith Testa
NARRATIVE INSIGHT INTO HOW RURAL, FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES ESTABLISH NON-DEFICIT, MULTI-SITED IDENTITIES, Sarah Jusseaume
Tracking Hidden STEM in NH's North Country, Beth Potier
Submissions from 2022
NH’s Workforce: The Youth Retention Initiative For educational, occupational and residential futures in New Hampshire, Andrew D. Coppens, Sarah Jusseaume, Cindy L. Hartman, Jayson Seaman, Erin H. Sharp, and Molly Donovan