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Youth Coaching Expert Insights

Stay informed, inspired, and engaged in mentoring and coaching tweens, teens, and young adults with the Youth Coaching Institute blog. Here you’ll discover expert strategies, research, and tools to empower your practice or organization and foster growth and resilience in adolescents.

How to Build Resilience in Teens: A Research-Backed Guide

July 5, 2026

If you spend time with teens and young adults, you’ve probably heard resilience described as something a young person either has or doesn’t have. She’s so resilient. He just doesn’t bounce back. It sounds like a compliment or a diagnosis, something fixed at birth. The research tells a different story, and it’s far more hopeful. Contemporary research conceptualizes resilience not as a fixed personality trait but as a dynamic, multisystem

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Mental Fitness in Youth: How Coaches Make a Difference

July 3, 2026

Quick answer: Mental fitness refers to a young person’s ability to manage emotions, build resilience, and maintain psychological well-being over time. Youth well-being coaches play a key role in this development by creating supportive environments where young people can strengthen these skills through guided, practical coaching. Young people today face a level of psychological pressure that previous generations rarely encountered—academic demands, social media, identity formation, and, for many, the lingering

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Introducing Claros: An AI Coaching Suite Designed for Real Life

June 5, 2026

At Youth Coaching Institute, we have spent 13 years working at the intersection of behavioral science and human potential. We know that coaching is fundamentally about building the skills young people carry with them long after a session ends. The goal has never been a young person who needs their coach. It has always been a young person who knows how to think through difficult moments, advocate for themselves, and

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What the Evidence Actually Says About College, Careers, and AI

May 21, 2026

Every spring, millions of high school seniors make decisions that will shape the next decade of their lives, usually with too little information and too much noise. Go to college. Skip college. Get a trade. Learn to code. And now, layered over all of it: what about AI? The adults in their lives, including coaches, parents, counselors, and teachers, are navigating this alongside them, often drawing on advice that was

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How Youth Coaching Solves 3 Major Mental Health Crises

May 10, 2026

Young people are navigating a complex landscape that challenges their well-being in unprecedented ways. Recent insights from the JED Foundation (2026) highlight three converging crises impacting adolescents: artificial intelligence systems built for engagement rather than care, rapidly shrinking public support networks, and eroding pathways to meaningful human connection. As an educator, social worker, or youth advocate, you likely see these challenges manifesting in your schools and communities every day. How

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Why AI Can Never Replace Human Support for Youth

March 27, 2026

Adolescence is a profound period of biological and emotional change. Teenagers consistently navigate complex social dynamics, identity formation, and existential challenges. As technology advances, we see artificial intelligence stepping into administrative and even supportive roles within educational and therapeutic spaces. When we ask what separates human support from AI support, we are really asking a much deeper question: What does it mean for a young person to feel truly understood?

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