Let's Get Social-Emotional: SEL and Teens in Library Services

In 2021-22 Sacramento Public Library lead 65 teen participants through the Youth Library Leadership Program, a 6-week course designed to introduce youth to various social-emotional learning (SEL) topics. Through the program youth engaged with SEL topics through discussion, games, activities, and a final group project. SEL incorporates a broad range of skills and attitudes that foster success in all avenues of life. Youth benefit in many ways from engagement with SEL learning.
In this program Sacramento Public Library will provide an overview of the Youth Library Leadership Program and detail the ways that social-emotional learning can be infused into any teen program. Participants will gain understanding of the Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional (CASEL) framework for social-emotional learning topics, learn how they can be easily imbued into existing work, and learn how to implement the Youth Library Leadership Program at their own library for free.