Part one:The Social Indicators Field; Fisher Participant Consultation: Ethical Insights into Parental Permissions and Confidentiality Procedures for Policy-Relevant Research with Youth; PART TWO: ENHANCING INDIVIDUAL - CONTEXT RELATIONS; McAdoo and Martin Families and Ethnicity; Bornstein Positive Parenting and Positive Development in Children; Lamb, Chuang and Cabrera Promoting Child Adjustment by Fostering Positive Paternal Involvement; Mistry, Chaudhuri and Diez Ethnotheories of Parenting: At the Interface between Culture and Child Development; Blanck et al Reforming Education: Developing 21st Century Community Schools; PART THREE: STRENGTHENING POLICIES AND / Foundations of applied development science; Wertlieb and Jacobs Historical and Theoretical Bases of Applied Developmental Sciences; Nelson Neural Development and Lifelong Plasticity; Shatte et al The Role of Positive Psychology in Child, Adolescent and Family Development; Brown and Moore Child and Youth Well-Being.