Adolescent Engagement: Challenges of Safety and Mental Health

Abstract

There are inequities in safety experienced by youth across different communities. In order to improve these inequities for adolescents, there is a need to increase adolescent civic engagement within their communities. However, levels of neighborhood or school safety may influence their civic engagement, as well as their mental health. The objective of the current study is to examine the association between perceptions of neighborhood, park, and school safety, civic engagement, and mental health within racially diverse adolescents. This cross-sectional study used 2009 data from the California Health Interview …