TCP Evidence-Based Recognitions
TCP research and implementation materials have been reviewed by multiple organizations and recognized by:
- The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) as a SELect Program
- Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development as a Certified Promising Program
- The California Evidence Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC)
- The Suicide Prevention Resource Center on their Best Practices Registry
TCP is recognized as a Promising Program by Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development and received CASEL’s highest designation for quality programming.
TCP encouraged the teens to be true to their emotions, gave them tools and strategies to make connections, and made them feel a little less isolated. Seeing the teens smile and excited when sharing with former strangers turned friends was the most memorable experience of delivering TCP.
-R. Levario, TCP Facilitator in Luna County
Summary of Teen Connection Project (TCP) Results
The Teen Connection Project is an evidence-based program that was developed through a 3-year research-practice partnership between Wyman and Dr. Joe Allen, Director of the Adolescent Research Group at the University of Virginia. The Adolescent Research Group conducted a rigorous, randomized control study to determine the program’s effects. View the results here.
