Biography:
Kate Fogarty is an associate professor and youth development specialist with the University of Florida’s Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences. Kate’s community outreach work specializes in preventing adolescent risk and promoting resiliency through relationships (with parents, mentors, schools, communities, including artificial intelligence). Her scholarly work focuses on understanding program features and processes to promote positive youth development and adolescent risk/resilience. Specific areas of her research are: 1. features of nonformal educational programs (e.g., mentoring) that prevent risk and promote positive youth development and 2. contextual predictors of risk behaviors and resilience outcomes among adolescents and emerging adults.
Title : The vaping ecosystem: Social, school, and media predictors of e-cigarette use among Florida teens