Our SEL Models help build competencies that empower young people.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is a positive youth development framework that refers to the building of skills needed to recognize and manage emotions, develop care and concern for for others, make responsible decisions, establish and maintain positive relationships, and handle interpersonal situations effectively. These capabilities are critical foundations for academic learning and for a person’s long-term personal and professional success.
Our SEL programs are designed to:
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Develop a positive community where students feel a sense of belonging, are significant members of the group, and have fun.
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Teach and reinforce relationship-building skills.
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Promote social interest through sharing, listening, inclusion, participation, and dialogue.
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Model and practice social skills such as cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
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Merge social, emotional, and intellectual learning.
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Model and practice problem-solving and goal setting.
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Promote effective decision-making.
SEL Interventions
Sense of Belonging
Establish an educational and community structure where you feel included.
Relationships with Peers
Provide a dependable, interactive routine, through educational or other sports and arts activities, that requires cooperation and dependence on one another.
Personal Attachments
Enlist teachers, mentors, and coaches who can form caring relationships with youth and foster social integration.
Intellectual and physical stimulation
Enhance cognitive, social and emotional development by providing a variety of learning opportunities through education, arts and sport.
Need to Feel
Valued
Create opportunities for individual and group expression through arts and sports so as to build self-confidence.
Our Models
Both Arts and Sports develop key SEL competencies in individuals.
The communal nature of programs develops healthy (secure and safe) environments that support members’ well-being.
Refugee-Managed Models
Both Sports and Applied Arts Programs empower youth in crisis contexts to drive sustainable models forward. The programs build capacity and develop creativity and autonomy in operationalizing the vision.
Sports Program At a Glance
Addressing the physical dimension of well-being through a structured youth sports program linked to educational interventions.
Sport for Protection
Sport to support mental and physical well-being in stressful living environments (SEL)
Support to life-long learning (SDG 4) and retention of youth in education
Applied Arts Program At a Glance
Addressing the social and emotional dimension of well-being through regular refugee-led art projects in the community.
Art to support mental, emotional (and even physical) well-being in stressful living environments (SEL)
Art to provide inclusive access to formal and informer Higher Education opportunities
How We Connect Students to Learning and Employability
Interests
We work with you to:
Design interest-powered courses
Create action-oriented learning experiences
Give students space to reflect on their learning
Relationships
We spend a lot of time to:
Design collaborative learning experiences
Get youth to create solutions as a community
Have peers evaluate the impact of their solutions
Opportunities
We take a long-term view on learning to:
Design learning that builds employability skills
Create connections to local and digital livelihoods
Reflect on what will strengthen our community