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Emotional skills are now widely recognized to be essential skills for young people to survive and thrive across all aspects of their lives. Teens become able to develop powerful new skills for understanding and managing their emotions. They also are able to learn skills for using the valuable functions of emotions. But this learning isn’t automatic; it depends on experience. The purpose of this webinar is to engage afterschool leaders in thinking about ways to promote emotional learning among teens.

In this webinar, Dr. Reed Larson and his collaborator Dr. Natalie Rusk highlight key elements of youth programs that make them important contexts for youth’s active engagement in emotional learning. They present examples from research on how program staff facilitate youth development of skills to manage and use emotions. Our panel of expert afterschool practitioners respond to their presentation and speak to the relevancy of this research to those who focus on youth of color, the needs of girls, and preparing youth for the workforce.