The practical implications of youth programs are periodically subjected to analysis performed by the organization's specialized staff.
Diana Certan, program director at NHF performed a research project on the participants to the New Horizons Foundation's programs VIATA (based on adventure education) and IMPACT (based on service learning) aimed to identify the changes induced by these programs in the levels of social capital displayed by the subjects (in terms of interpersonal trust and cooperation). This research was supervised by Dr. Gabi Badescu, a leading social capital scholar from the University of Babes-Bolyai (Cluj).
Summaries of the research concerning the IMPACT and the VIATA programs are available below:
An International Perspective: „The purpose of this study was to empirically analyze (through a case study) the ability of one camp to increase social capital and civic engagement among its participants...”
