Residential EE Program Yields Positive Results, Especially for Urban Participants
At the NorthBay Adventure Center on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, urban and rural middle school students attend a five-day residential program that promotes three main outcomes: environmental responsibility; character development and leadership; and positive attitudes toward school. Although character development may be associated with many EE programs, it is not often evaluated in EE settings. Instead, researchers have tended to focus on this outcome in after-school programs, and such outcomes are often referred to as positive youth development (PYD).