GOAL’s Mission
Goal's mission is to engage children from under-served communities in high quality enrichment programming:
-developed and supported by highly motivated teachers
-giving them open access to opportunities that they wouldn’t receive from their school,
-centered around providing students with essential developmental assets such as resourcefulness, self-confidence, and inter-personal skills
GOAL’s Vision
GOAL's vision is that every student is entitled to a high quality education that includes academic, social and emotional learning
The Need for Social and Emotional Learning Programs
• Youth who participate in after-school Social and Emotional Learning programs
improve significantly in three major areas:
feelings and attitudes, indicators of behavioral adjustment, and school performance.
• Programs that use evidence-based, skill-training approaches are consistently successful in
producing multiple benefits for youth.
• Social/Emotional Learning program students demonstrate enhanced skills, attitudes, and positive social behaviors,
demonstrate fewer conduct problems, and have lower levels of emotional distress. Relative to
their peers who do not receive the SEL program, they improved significantly on standardized
achievementent tests. *
*Research taken from The Impact of After School Programs that Promote Personal and Social Growth,
a 2007 report issued by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)