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America’s Promise Alliance Announces Grants for Five Communities to Support Young People’s Social, Emotional, Cognitive Growth and Development

September 19, 2019

Convenings will focus on supporting and engaging youth, promoting equity, and inspiring action across diverse communities.

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Press Release Type: Press Release

America’s Promise Alliance Announces Effort to Raise Awareness and Catalyze Action around How Learning Happens

April 25, 2019

Today, America’s Promise Alliance announced plans to advance the national conversation about How Learning Happens and highlight the importance of fostering young people’s development and well-being.

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Press Release Type: Press Release

From A Nation At Risk: To A Nation At Hope

March 12, 2019

A growing movement dedicated to the social, emotional, and academic well-being of children is reshaping learning and changing lives across America. On the strength of its remarkable consensus, a nation at risk is finally a nation at hope. Find out more and get involved.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: National Commision on Social, Emotional, & Academic Development

Responding to Trauma through Policies that Create Supportive Learning Environments

January 31, 2019

This brief introduces a Trauma-Informed Policy Framework to Create Supportive Learning Environments to help state officials create supportive learning environments that meet the needs of students ...

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Child Trends

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Edutopia - How Learning Happens Video Series

November 16, 2018

This video series, featuring Linda Darling-Hammond, president and CEO of Learning Policy Institute, and Pamela Cantor, MD, founder and senior science advisor of Turnaround for Children, pairs research insights with a variety of illustrative strategies from schools, all grounded in the science of human learning and development. 

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Edutopia

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Barriers to Wellness

November 29, 2016

This report provides new insights into the obstacles to wellness young people of color face in five cities and brings young people’s voices and views into the discussion about what affects their health and wellness.

Type: Report

TAG: English Learners

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults, Effective Education, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Social and Emotional Learning, Health and Wellness

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign, Youth Voice: Racial Justice

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League

Don't Forget the Families

November 25, 2015

In the midst of growing national interest in strengthening children’s “soft” or social-emotional skills as critical for learning, work, and life, a new study from Search Institute highlights the power of family relationships as a critical, but often neglected, factor in the development of character strengths in children.

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places

channels: Family Engagement, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Search Institute

What is mindset and what does it mean for youth resilience?

November 25, 2015

There is wide agreement that resilience – the ability to respond positively to life’s challenges – is an important asset for positive youth development. However, there is much to learn about how to promote resilience in youth and how to help youth increase resilience. 

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places

channels: Social and Emotional Learning, Thriving

SOURCE: Thrive Foundation for Youth

Don't Call Them Dropouts: Understanding the Experiences of Young People Who Leave High School Before Graduation

May 20, 2014

“Don’t Call Them Dropouts,” a report by America’s Promise Alliance based on research conducted by its Center for Promise at Tufts University, was funded by Target. In the largest nationwide study of its kind to date, young adults who left high school without graduating spoke at length about their experiences and the reasons they did not complete high school on time. As the nation reaches the all-time high of an 80 percent on-time high school graduation rate, this report listens deeply to what the remaining 20 percent say is happening in their lives, and what they need to stay in school.

Type: Resource

TAG: Youth Involvement

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Mentoring, Re-engaging Youth, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

Maryland Child Care Choices Study: Maternal Depression among Applicants for Temporary Cash Assistance

April 15, 2014

This Research Brief examines the prevalence of depressive symptoms among mothers who recently applied for Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) in Maryland. The analysis describes risk factors associated with experiencing depressive symptoms, and the associations between depressive symptoms and maternal stress about parenting.  

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

channels: Health and Wellness, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Child Trends