Positive Vision for All Young People
Uniting a community to nurture all of its children and youth is much
like playing in a jazz ensemble. Each musician must know the tune
and listen to the other ensemble members; all players must improvise together—sometimes taking the lead and sometimes blending into the background. This section gives tips and ideas for creating your own “ensemble” of an engaged community.
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Engaging Your Own Community
- Principles for asset-building communities
- Five action strategies for community change
- Getting started in your own community
- The dynamics of complex community change.
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Connect with Others
- Find other asset builders in your area—or around the world.
- Subscribe to the Asset Champion, which shares what’s going on in Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth initiatives across the United States and across the world!
- Exchange ideas with other asset builders by joining the Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth Listserv.
- Register your community’s asset-building initiative with Search Institute.
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Search Institute Research on Community and Social Change
- All Kids Are Our Kids: What Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents (2nd Edition), by Peter L. Benson, presents a comprehensive overview of the Developmental Assets and the change strategies needed to create asset-rich communities.
- Tapping the Power of Community: Building Assets to Strengthen Substance Abuse Prevention
- Case studies of asset-building communities
