Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth Downloads
Current Federal Funding Opportunities
The purpose of this section is to help communities
and organizations find federal dollars to enhance and expand their work
of promoting positive youth development. We offer an overview of federal grant announcements that we have selected from our
daily scanning process because the grant funds could potentially be
used to support activities that are grounded in the developmental asset
framework; and/or to support communities and organizations who wish
to use Search
Institute
resources, such as trainings,
consultation,
and products,
that promote a developmental assets approach.
Who might be interested in these grant opportunities? We think grant
writers,
Healthy
Communities
• Healthy Youth (HC • HY) community initiative leaders, leaders of
community-based and faith-based organizations, and others working with
community initiatives and organizations that
are promoting
developmental
assets will find these federal grant opportunities of interest.
This section will be updated weekly, so please check back often.
Tools and Resources for Community Initiatives
Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth initiatives work to mobilize and equip individuals, organizations, programs and sectors throughout their communities to build assets in all young people. On this page you will find downloadable resources that can assist you as you go about your work. Some have been developed in the course of Search Insitute's grant-funded work. Others may come from initiatives like yours.
Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth® Logo Download
Search Institute seeks to build widespread national awareness of the
framework of Developmental Assets
TM and the call to creating healthy communities for youth. In response to requests, Search Institute will allow communities to use the registered trademark
logo for the Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth initiative for
their own initiative's logo, provided conditions of the
Agreement for Using the Search Institute Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth Logo and Name are met.
A Grant Template for Collaboration between Initiatives
Between 2000 and 2003 Search Institute worked on a project with four community initiatives in Minnesota to explore what small doses of consulting and training from Search Institute could contribute to the sustainability of these four initiatives. One outcome from that project is a
grant template (RTF Format) which would allow other initiatives to apply for local funding for a similar project. The grant template includes language describing Search Institute and the Developmental Assets, and also includes a description and a timeline for the three year project, and lists the various components. This entire project and the grant template that resulted from it were made possible by the generous support of the Otto Bremer Foundation.
"Alaskan Homilies to Help Kids Succeed"
Youth development includes all parts of a child's growth - emotional,
intellectual and spiritual. Within faith communities, there are many opportunities
to develop positive assets that youth will need as adults, including values, leadership skills and
service to community. These assets can be emphasized in every class, activity, relationship and worship service.
The book
Alaska Homilies to Help Kids Succeed was born in a faith community in Anchorage, where it was
put to use for over 50 weeks as part of regular services. The publication was written for use by faith communities of all
kinds. The format was selected to enable each Developmental Asset to be described in a homily, or brief sermon. For
each asset, this publication contains a page of ideas that individuals and groups can use to help foster Developmental
Assets. The suggestions are just that - ideas on which to build. Feel free to adapt the material in this publication to your
individual faith community.
This book is available for download free of charge at the
Alaska Ice web site.
