Children in the United States tend to experience a decline in positive self-concept during their adolescent years. A new Child Trends brief, Assessing What Kids Think About Themselves: A Guide to Adolescent Self-Concept for Out-Of-School Time Program Practitioners, provides information on how to assess self-concept among out-of-school program participants. It also suggests specific strategies that program providers can employ to improve an adolescent's self-concept. The brief includes tools for measuring adolescent self-concept and a list of additional resources. See the article attached.

Child Trends, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at every stage of development, has developed short, easy-to-read resources that provide research-based guidance for out-of-school time program providers. Topics range from staff development and cultural competence to implementing evidence-based practices and evaluating program outcomes for youth. All of these resources are available for free download. Click on the link below.

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