(SEL) Social-emotional Learning

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) workshops and groups are designed to equip youth with the skills and tools necessary to maintain healthy relationships, have a positive sense of self, and set ambitious goals for their futures.

Mentors and facilitators establish a safe place to discuss topics and situations that may be hindering their ability to successfully navigate their day-to-day lives. With an array of different subtopics such as teen dating violence, weight and body image positivity, managing anxiety, and conflict resolution, youth here from lived experience mentors discuss how some of these issues grew to become reasons for irrepressible, unhealthy, and criminal behaviors. Groups can be conducted with a range of different activities to help youth grasp the topics discussed.

A specialized group for empowering teen girls was formed to face challenges such as cyberbullying, social networking, binge drinking, marijuana use, the stigma of mental health, and to promote self-care and healthy decision-making.

Curriculum/Topics:

Self-Awareness

Youth learn how to accurately recognize emotions, thoughts, and values to accurately assess one's strengths and limitations with a well-grounded sense of confidence, optimism, and a "growth mindset."

Healthy Relationships

Youth develop ways to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals and groups, to communicate clearly, listen well, cooperate with others, and seek and offer help when needed.

Social-Awareness

Youth learn how to take the perspective of and empathize with others to understand social and ethical norms for behavior and to recognize family, school, cultural, and community resources and supports.

Responsible Social Media Use

Youth obtain skills to develop media literacy, digital citizenship, and more accurate information on how to use social media safely and in an emotionally healthy manner. They harness relational strengths to effectively explore the complex intersecting topics of technology, body image, cyberbullying, exploitation, and relationships.