Youth First Kenya

Youth First Kenya, an integrated resilience and health training program, that seeks to build social and emotional assets, such as coping skills, character strengths, and positive self-regard, as well as improve adolescent health. Youth First is a teacher-facilitated, school-based program in Kenya that draws from the latest research in resilience, positive psychology, and social-emotional learning, in which potential risks or threats to wellbeing are addressed by boosting internal assets and external supports. The program focuses on teacher engagement and addresses issues of gender equality, gender relations, and gender rights, and is specifically designed to ensure equal attention is paid to skills development in girls and boys.