How Do We Hold Onto Hope in Uncertain Times? (And Help Youth Do the Same)
Discover how connection can help educators, nonprofit leaders, and community advocates cultivate hope in young people hold onto hope.
Post Focus Area: Social and Emotional Skills
Empowering Youth Through Creativity: Fernanda’s Story
Discover how Fernanda, a teaching artist with Big Thought, uses creativity to empower justice-involved youth.
Play + SEL = Out of School Time Success
By Tiffany Self & Déjà Bailey At Big Thought, equipping all youth to imagine and create their best lives and world is our North Star; it informs how we approach our work. Empowering youth by building their creative muscle, developing social and emotional skills and well-being, and fostering their authentic voice is the Big Thought way.
Youth at the Center: Building Trust and Being Available
Vincent Coronado, Big Thought’s Opportunity Advisor, shares his perspective on keeping youth at the center of his work.
In The Fellowship Initiative, Mental Health Education is College Prep
The Fellowship Initiative hosts Let’s Talk: Men’s Mental Health, a panel discussion about identity and masculinity for young men of color.
It’s Time to Work Together to Defend SEL
Our organization, Big Thought, was hosting a showcase created this past spring break by an amazing group of teenage young creators. The program, Artivism, invites youth to tap into that powerful element that has forged the entire nation’s sense of propriety and purpose–youth voice. Tell stories that move people to action. As I sat in the audience listening