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Effective practices to increase competence in youth
  • Offer opportunities for skill-building and mastery of different types of competence over time
  • Integrate communication, listening, and cooperation skill-building
  • Provide opportunities to interact with youth with diverse perspectives and backgrounds
  • Integrate emotional skill-building so that youth can understand, identify and regulate emotions, and use positive emotions to foster well-being
  • Encourage youth to problem solve
  • Offer opportunities to reflect on and acknowledge individual and group achievements to improve young people’s perceived competence
  • Ensure appropriate challenge
  • Offer opportunities to explore options and make plans for the future
  • Provide opportunities for new experiences
  • Ensure breadth and depth of programs