Connecting Youth Development with SEL: How City Years’ Work Serves Students

We are excited to share today's episode, where we spoke with Stephanie Wu from City Year! Stephanie is City Year's Senior Vice President and Chief Impact Officer. City Year was established in Boston more than three decades ago as a youth service and leadership development organization. They employ AmeriCorps members, who serve full-time in 320 public schools across the country, partnering with classroom teachers. In today's discussion, we were able to discuss the recent change of the AmeriCorps members being referred to as success coaches, and the incredible impact that the success coaches at City Year have had on the students they serve.

Mentioned Resources:

• City Year’s website: https://www.cityyear.org/about/
• Evidence of City Year’s impact: https://www.cityyear.org/impact/evidence-of-impact/
• Overview document of Everybody Graduates Center 2020 study: https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EGC_overview_FY20_05.20.pdf 
• Blog that ties together the findings of two case studies conducted during COVID-19.
• Essay by Steph Wu and Gil Noam first published in Psychology Today about how to support the mental health and well-being of both students and adults in schools during and after the pandemic.
• Recent story about why our organization is avoiding the term “learning loss” as we support students during and after COVID-19--the essay underscores our asset-based approach.
• Info on City Year alumni, more than half of whom currently work in the education sector.

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