Summary
YoVanna worked with Row New York to create a social and emotional learning curriculum to be integrated into coaching and rowing culture offered to youth.
Overview
Conducted student needs-assessment
Compiled high-quality Social-Emotional Learning resources
Built relationships with community organizations and Row New York leadership, academic and counseling staff to gain an understanding of the opportunities and needs around Social-Emotional Learning
Developed Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum
Facilitated Social-Emotional Learning workshops to develop the following competencies:
Conflict Resolution/Empathy workshop
Identity Mapping workshop
Confidence Building Workshop
Inner-Beauty WorkshopImpact
270 Youth Participants enrolled with Row New York; 50 Youth Participants who participated in Social-Emotional Learning workshops created and facilitated by YoVanna
Articles written by YoVanna
YoVanna details the importance of paid opportunities to creating equity in the social sector while sharing her two biggest lessons learned during the fellowship.