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Making a Lasting Impact on Young People Through PYD Experiences

Making a Lasting Impact on Young People Through PYD Experiences

“How can I make a lasting impact on young people in my program?” Camp professionals across the country ask this question, and our answer is always lean on PYD Experiences. The evidence says that promoting authentic, caring, and challenging experiences for young people is the most important thing you can

How to Use the Capacities Section in Your Pre-Report to Boost Your Impact

Practice and Progress Sessions

How to Use the Capacities Section in Your Pre-Report to Boost Your Impact

Key Takeaways and Resources: The Capacities section in the Pre report helps you identify your young people’s opportunities for growth and assets. Watch a short video with an overview of the Capacities section. * Reflecting on the capacity with the largest % of Emerging young people and the capacity with the

Practice and Progress Sessions

How to Use Your Pre Report to Boost Your Program

Key Takeaways and Resources: How to build from a Single Research-Based Practice: The potential for impact scores help you decide which experiences should be prioritized in your program 1. Reflecting on the Experience with the highest potential for impact score is the first step you and your team can take.

The Great Outdoors: How Nature-Based Programs Boost Social-Emotional Learning in Young People

The Great Outdoors: How Nature-Based Programs Boost Social-Emotional Learning in Young People

Playing and learning in the outdoors is essential for young people’s health and well-being. Connecting young people to the outdoors and nature can help them improve their sense of autonomy and self-concept, as well as their life satisfaction, sense of purpose, and enthusiasm. For these reasons and more, thousands

Funders Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health

Funders Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health

For me, it is the little things that challenge mental health and will send you straight to therapy, the microaggressions that masquerade as jokes, and structural racism that manifests itself in unconscious bias and entitlement. It’s always having to try to figure out and do the calculus of whether

We Know Us: Guide to Participatory Meaning Making with Young People

We Know Us: Guide to Participatory Meaning Making with Young People

What does it look like to truly engage young people in making meaning of data that affects their lives – a process sometimes known as participatory meaning making? In 2022, six young people who had been involved in a participatory meaning-making project created a resource to help adult researchers and practitioners

Weathering the Storm Through Sports: Building SEL in Challenging Times

Weathering the Storm Through Sports: Building SEL in Challenging Times

The last two years have taken a toll on our nation's social and emotional well-being. We continue to hear about the psychological consequences of two national tragedies and the wake of challenges that followed. One is the pandemic. The other is, collectively, the murders of George Floyd, Breonna

Foster Outdoor Exploration

Foster Outdoor Exploration

Foster Outdoor Exploration is a young person’s experience with an adult who encourages them to explore natural environments and develop a personal interest in the outdoors. Fostering outdoor exploration involves promoting young people’s interest in the natural environment and exploring the relationship with other living and nonliving things.

Reflect on Outdoor Exploration

Reflect on Outdoor Exploration

Reflect on Outdoor Exploration is a young person’s experience with an adult who takes time to create attentive, critical, and exploratory thoughts about spending time in the outdoors. Reflecting on outdoor exploration with young people involves connecting what they learn in the outdoors with their daily lives, identifying the

Executive Leaders Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health

Executive Leaders Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health

In the recent event Executive Leaders Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health, six extraordinary leaders shared how they guide their organizations through these difficult and ever-evolving times. The session, hosted by Hello Insight and Youth INC, took place directly after the Buffalo, NY, and Texas

Promoting Career Readiness For Young People In Today’s Workplace

Promoting Career Readiness For Young People In Today’s Workplace

What are some common qualities of colleagues you love to work with? They’re capable planners, who can identify big goals and break them down to figure out how to get from Point A to Point B. They’re skilled collaborators and communicators, with the ability to think critically and

Youth Workers Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health

Youth Workers Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health

In a recent event hosted by Hello Insight and Youth INC, entitled Youth Workers Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health, five amazing frontline staff shared their experiences of working in this field throughout the pandemic and alongside the ongoing racial tensions in the country. They

HI Case Study: Guitars Over Guns

HI Case Study: Guitars Over Guns

Hello Insight was highlighted in a case study written by Peter Gerlings, Board of Trustees and Chair of the Research Committee of the We Are All Music Foundation (WAAM). The study showcases how Guitars Over Guns Operation’s (GOGO’s) music mentoring program has helped bring about some striking improvements

HI Member Story: Translating Research into Practice

HI Member Story: Translating Research into Practice

Patti Neiman, MA (She, Her, Hers) University YMCA Director of Educational Efficacy and Leadership, Minneapolis What brought you into the field of youth development? Some of my earliest inspirational “lessons” about young people came during junior high school. These lessons were woven into my school experiences, such as observing the

Unlocking The Power In Numbers

Unlocking The Power In Numbers

The Importance and Challenge of Evaluation and Measurement in the Nonprofit Sector “Well-run organizations and effective programs are those that can demonstrate the achievement of results. Good management is based on good decision-making. Good decision-making depends on good information. Good information requires good data and careful analysis of the data.

Placing Culture at the Center of SEL

Placing Culture at the Center of SEL

Now more than ever, schools and youth-serving organizations need to create environments and relationships that involve young people in culturally appropriate activities to help children grow their social and emotional learning (SEL) skills. But how do we prepare staff to promote these skills?

Youth Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health

Youth Speak Out: The Impact of Race and DEI on Mental Health

People are scared to talk about these things. I was scared to talk about these things…Everything has to do with fear but if youth can do it so can adults. - Jimmie Cassamajor Read Alliance, New York City In a recent event hosted by Hello Insight and Youth INC,

2021 HI Impact BIPOC SBYD Awardees

2021 HI Impact BIPOC SBYD Awardees

We are honored to present these organizations with HI Impact Awards for their work in Sports-Based Youth Development

HI Member Story: Turning College Readiness into a Career

HI Member Story: Turning College Readiness into a Career

Using data to inspire the next generation of educators

New Study by Hello Insight

New Study by Hello Insight

Research demonstrates sports-based youth development programs foster social and emotional learning, especially among young men of color.

Build Team

Build Team is a young person’s experience with a coach who leverages every team member's talents, creating a “win” for all. Individual talent can never make a team successful, rather it is the ability to understand and take advantage of one another’s talents that creates the

Challenge Growth

Challenge Growth

Challenge Growth is a young person’s experience with an adult who encourages them to take risks and perform beyond their own expectations. Challenging growth involves four actions: 1) Staff expect young people to do their best and to live up to their potential; 2) They stretch and encourage young

Encourage Organizational Change

Encourage Organizational Change

Encourage Organizational Change is a young person’s experience in an organization that values their opinions and encourages them to engage in decision making. Creating opportunities to influence organizations involves strategies such as, but not limited to, youth councils, youth advisory boards, and youth-led research and evaluation teams. WHY IS

Engage Authentically

Engage Authentically

Engage Authentically is a young person’s experience with an adult who takes the time to get to know them by listening and understanding who they are—their cultural and lived experiences, their interests, and their passions. Engaging authentically involves placing young people’s personal stories at the center of

Engage Authentically

Engage Authentically

Engage Authentically is a young person’s experience with an adult who takes the time to get to know them by listening and understanding who they are — their cultural and lived experiences, their interests, and their passions. Engaging authentically involves placing young people’s personal stories at the center of