Race and Opportunity Lab
Youth Development

We examine race, opportunity and social mobility with an emphasis on informing policies, interventions and intra-professional practice to improve place-based capacity to reduce inequality in adolescents’ healthy transition to adulthood. The first phase of work focuses on studies that establish baseline measures of regional capacity to ensure healthy youth development for all in the St. Louis region (city and county).
Principal Investigator

Sean Joe
CSD Faculty Director; Washington University in St. Louis
Youth Development: Effective Transitions to Adulthood
- Email: sjoe@wustl.edu
Contact

Lissa Johnson
CSD Associate Director,
Director of Policy Initiatives, Grand Challenges for Social Work
- Email: ejohnson@wustl.edu
Events
HomeGrown STL 4th Annual Regional Summit on Black boys and young men: Disrupting the Systems of Dehumanization
February 29, 2020, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Clark-Fox Forum, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
HomeGrown STL Strategic Networking Breakfast: Mentoring Alliance Initiative
November 14, 2019, 8:00 to 10:00 a.m., Brown Lounge, Brown Hall Washington University in St. Louis
HomeGrown STL Strategic Networking Breakfast: Healing Policies for Black Male Development Initiative
September 19, 2019, 8:00 to 11:00 a.m., Brown Lounge, Brown Hall Washington University in St. Louis
HomeGrown STL 3rd Regional Summit on Black Boys and Young Men: Building Capacity for Community & System Change
February 7, 2019, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Clark-Fox Forum, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
HomeGrown STL Strategic Networking Breakfast
December 13, 2018, 8:00 to 10:00 a.m., Washington University in St. Louis
HomeGrown STL Regional Summit
February 8, 2018, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Brown School of Social Work, Clark-Fox Forum, Washington University in St. Louis
HomeGrown STL Networking Breakfast: Evidence for the Field: Black Males & Employment Opportunity
Thursday, June 8, 2017, 8:00 am to 10:30 am, Brown Lounge, Brown Hall at the Brown School of Social Work
HomeGrown STL Inaugural Summit
February 9, 2017, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall, Brown School
Young, Gifted, & @ Risk Consortium
November 11, 2016, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall, Brown School
HomeGrown STL Networking Breakfast
Thursday, June 9, 2016 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., Brown Lounge, Brown Hall, Washington University in St. Louis
HomeGrown STL Networking Breakfast
Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:00 to 10:00 a.m., Brown Lounge, Brown Hall, Washington University in St. Louis