APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Keeping It Sasc: Promoting Positive Youth Development in a Community Setting
- Alana Keller
Wayne State University - Alana Keller
Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan - Dennis Brown
Michigan School of Psychology - Dennis Brown
Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan - Monique Garrick
Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan
Abstract
The proposed study uses the adapted positive youth development model for girls of color to create a 8-week long program in an out-of-school time community setting. The program is designed to increase a Black girls' (aged 10-14) mental wellbeing while remaining accessible and empirically based.
Cultural Diversity