Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth - Mission, Goals, Partners
The Mission
The mission of Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth
is to motivate and equip individuals, organizations, and their leaders to
join together in nurturing competent, caring, and responsible children and
adolescents. To accomplish this, Search Institute will provide or assist
with research, evaluation, resource materials, training, technical assistance,
and networking opportunities based on the institute's framework of
developmental assets.
The Goals
The major goals of Healthy Communities - Healthy Youth are:
- National awareness--To raise national consciousness about the urgency and feasibility of mobilizing individuals,
communities, policy, and resources to take positive action on behalf of all children and adolescents.
- Community mobilization--To assist communities in developing and implementing coordinated, and long-term efforts to
promote the healthy development of all children and adolescents.
- Organizations--To motivate and equip schools, religious institutions, youth-serving organizations, and other
institutions to develop and implement asset-building strategies.
- Families--To motivate and equip families to build developmental assets.
- Citizen engagement--To activate the asset-building capacity of all citizens, regardless of age or family status.
- Youth empowerment--To actively engage children and adolescents in building assets in their own lives, in the lives
of their peers, and in contributing to community-wide initiatives.
Partners
Lutheran Brotherhood, now Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, is the
founding
national sponsor for Healthy Communities • Health Youth.
Search Institute's Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth initiative has
received generous support from
Thrivent
Financial for Lutherans in 2004 and 2005. Search Institute offers
unique asset-building resources and
opportunities for Lutherans in the United States.
Learn
more about this partnership.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans:
http://thrivent.com/fraternal/grantprograms/index.html
Learn more:
http://www.search-institute.org/congregations/thriventpartnership/
Search Institute's asset-building work has also received financial support from the Blandin Foundation, the
Cargill Foundation, the Colorado Trust, DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Lilly
Endowment, the Norwest Foundation, and other funders.
The initiative is also supported by school districts, city agencies, community collaborations, state agencies,
youth organizations, community foundations, and citizens in hundreds of communities across the country.
