Preparing Youth to Thrive
The Socia and Emotional Learning (SEL) Challenge was designed in pursuit of two ambitious goals: to identify promising practices for building SEL skills with vulnerable adolescents, and to develop technical supports for use of these SEL practices at scale in thousands of OST settings. The study design included a qualitative methodology, expert practitioners, and performance studies at each of eight exemplary programs. The products of the Challenge – standards for SEL practice and the suite of SEL performance measures – are designed to help OST programs focus deeply on SEL practice, assess their strengths, and improve the quality and effectiveness of their services using a lower stakes continuous improvement approach.
Some of the main reources are:
- Preparing Youth to Thrive: Promising Practices for Social Emotional Learning
- Preparing Youth to Thrive: Methodology and Findings from the SEL Challenge
Download the Executive Summary - A one page overview of the report.
Download the Research Brief - Highlights from the Technical Report, including key findings and discussion.
Download the full Technical Report - Research paper describing the SEL Challenge methodology, findings and discussion.
Technical Report Chapter by Chapter Guide - An introduction and guide to efficient use of the report and other Challenge materials.
Technical Report Research Measures - Download a zipfile of the codebooks, permission forms and measures in the righthand column of the page.