Yield’s ultimate goal was to promote healthy development and youths’ active participation in society, with a strong focus on research that could directly improve clinical and educational practice.

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Yield brought together nine research programmes from three faculties, combining insights from:

Societal output and activities

Yield’s work extended well beyond academia, with tangible impact in education, healthcare, and policy:

• Prowise Learn: digital training programmes enabling teachers to monitor children’s progress. Data from 2000 schools (1 million responses daily) were also used for scientific research.
• Publications for professionals: training manuals, protocols, and books for clinicians, educators, and the general public.
• Diagnostic instruments: innovations in forensic care, including the National Instrumentation Youth Criminal Justice and policy reports on family networks in youth protection.
• E-health interventions: tools to treat insomnia in adolescents (slimslapen), and various addictions developed in ADAPT lab.
• Media outreach: wide attention through newspapers, magazines, and documentaries, including a public TV documentary on medication versus therapy for ADHD in children.