Youth Communication helps teens strengthen the social-emotional learning (SEL) and literacy skills that contribute to school and life success. Our target audience is staff who work with struggling teens, including youth in alternative high schools, youth in the foster care and/or juvenile justices systems, and poor youth living in neighborhoods subject to systemic discrimination and underdevelopment.We create curricula and provide professional development—all based on true stories by teens—that enable educators to become more effective at helping the teens in their schools and programs improve SEL and literacy skills. In addition, since 1980 we have trained youth to write high-quality autobiographical stories about how they use social and emotional skills to manage challenges in their lives. Those stories are the foundation of our curricula and professional development.Specialties: Youth development; professional development; social and emotional learning; literacy for struggling readers; youth voice; engaging struggling teens.
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