APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Keeping It Sasc: Promoting Positive Youth Development in a Community Setting

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Clinical Science

  • 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

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