CYP Now - Preparing Youth to Thrive: Methodology and Findings from the Social and Emotional Learning Challenge

This US project was a research and practice partnership that aimed to identify "promising" practices for building social and emotional learning skills with vulnerable young people.

Authors C Smith, G McGovern, S. C. Peck, R Larson, B Hillaker and L Roy Published by Forum for Youth Investment (2016)

This US project was a research and practice partnership between the Susan Crown Exchange (SCE), staff teams from eight exemplary out of school time (OST) programmes and the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality (CYPQ).

It aimed to identify "promising" practices for building social and emotional learning (SEL) skills with vulnerable young people. Here, "promising" indicates practices that have some supporting evidence of effectiveness but where further evidence of higher rigour has yet to be collected. The project also aimed to develop detailed descriptors of high-quality staff behaviour and young people's experience to allow for application and replication in other contexts.

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