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The Five A’s to Navigating SEL from the Inside Out with Older Youth

August 1, 2023

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is essential for young people to navigate the ever-increasing challenges of today's world. While many SEL programs and much of the research to date have focused on elementary school-aged children, more recent research shows that middle and high school-aged youth can also show substantial benefits from explicit opportunities for social and emotional development.

Summer for All: How Coordination in Dallas is Making this Dream a Reality Highlights

June 27, 2022

Recently, the Forum's Katherine Plog Martinez spoke with Sergio Garcia, Senior Manager of Learning Systems at Big Thought Dallas, to learn more about how they have built a coordinated network focused on summer and how their learning from the summer space has supported their work to integrate other focus areas, most recently social emotional learning, into their organization and network. Below please find highlights of the conversation.

Understanding Broadband and Equity for Young People

June 8, 2022

Broadband. What is it really, and why do broadband access and equity matter for young people, families, and communities? This blog accompanies the Forum’s primer to help policymakers, young people, and advocates understand the issues and recent developments, and strengthen equitable digital access for all young people.

The Forum Statement on Uvalde School Shooting

May 25, 2022

The Forum for Youth Investment grieves with the school community of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. We join in mourning and offer our condolences in response to this horrific act of senseless violence toward children and their teachers.

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