Jay A. Mancini

Most CYFAR programs live beyond the end of their five-year funding cycles, according to research from Lydia Marek and Jay Mancini of Virginia Tech Univerwsity.
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But from the time of Mancini and Marek's first sustainability studies in 1996, they suspected that there was more to it.
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Following a dozen years of research into the commonalities of sustained programs, Marek and Mancini define sustainability as "the capacity of programs to continuously respond to community issues."
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Marek and Mancini usually offer sustainability workshops at CYFAR annual conferences, and they are well attended.
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Program staff have also used Marek and Mancini's research when they are devising their own sustainability training.
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This autumn, Marek and Mancini will gather additional data from the same programs they have studied before, extending the data's timeline, and adding additional programs that have gone off-cycle.

Virginia Tech researchers Angela Huebner and Jay Mancini recently published a study after holding 14 focus groups with 107 youths to talk about their views of deployment.

Author: Marek, Lydia; Jay Mancini
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Author: Marek, Lydia; Mancini, Jay A.; Brock, D.J. Description: This sustainability research has found that the original 94 YAR programs continue to provide services to at risk youth and families at two years, three years, and four years post CYFAR/USDA funding (Mancini & Marek, 1998 Marek, Mancini, & Brock, 1999 Marek, Mancini, Earthman, & Brock, 2002).
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Author: Marek, Lydia; Mancini, Jay A.; Brock, Donna J. P. Description: Programs for children, youth, teens, adults, and families have been shown to have positive influences on the quality of community life (Comer & Fraser, 1998 Marek, Mancini, Lee and Miles, 1996; Schorr, 1997).
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Author: Marek, Lydia; Mancini, Jay A.; Brock, Donna-Jean P.
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Author: Marek, Lydia; Mancini, Jay A.; Brock, D.J. Description: This sustainability research has found that the original 94 YAR programs continue to provide services to at risk youth and families at two years, three years, and four years post CYFAR/USDA funding (Mancini & Marek, 1998 Marek, Mancini, & Brock, 1999 Marek, Mancini, Earthman, & Brock, 2002).
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Author: Marek, Lydia; Mancini, Jay A.; Brock, D.J. Description: This sustainability research has found that the original 94 YAR programs continue to provide services to at risk youth and families at two years, three years, and four years post CYFAR/USDA funding (Mancini & Marek, 1998 Marek, Mancini, & Brock, 1999 Marek, Mancini, Earthman, & Brock, 2002).

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Part 2 (30 minutes) - Jay Mancini

Lydia Marek and Jay Mancini, Virginia Tech

In a study supported by the Military Family Research Institute and the Department of Defense Quality of Life Office, researchers Angela J. Huebner, Ph.D and Jay A. Mancini, Ph.D of the Department of Human Development at Virginia Tech, focused on the adaptations of adolescents in military families when a parent is deployed.

"Teens seemed to be struggling to find a balance between wanting to talk about what was happening and wanting to be distracted from it," Jay Mancini, a professor of human development at Virginia Tech, said in a news release.
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"While several participants mentioned that their relationship with the at-home parent improved because they could spend more time together, many others described the parent as 'stressed out' and less available due to other responsibilities and concerns," Mancini said.

But the lengthy operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have ratcheted up the stress on military families, said Jay Mancini, a professor of human development at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. Mancini has studied ways communities can ease the burden on families of soldiers serving overseas.