A protocol of a randomized control trial to test the feasibility and efficacy of the EMPOWER social-emotional learning curriculum for youth aged 11–14 years in after-school settings

• Alice-Simone Balter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Madison Moloney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Clement Ma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biostatistics Core Services, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Alina Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biostatistics Core Services, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sandra Pierre,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Toronto Foundation for Student Success, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sheldon Parkes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Toronto Foundation for Student Success, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Doga Pulat,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Nicole Racine,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Brendan F. Andrade

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: brendan.andrade@utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3355-6859

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