Register Your Community-Wide Asset-Building Initiative
Search Institute’s Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth initiative is not a national program in which communities “buy a package” to launch an initiative. Rather, it is a grassroots movement grounded in a shared vision of using the framework of Developmental Assets® as a lens for strengthening communities for children and youth. To date, more than 600 communities have, on their own, launched initiatives that seek to unite the community around a shared vision.
Although Search Institute does not seek to manage or oversee these local initiatives, we do want to learn from you and with you. We want to help you connect with others who are involved in similar work. We want to be able to tell your story.
If your community has (or is organizing) a cross-sector, community-wide initiative to promote, link, and support efforts to build Developmental Assets®, we encourage you to register with Search Institute.
Benefits of Registering Your Initiative
- Receipt of monthly e-newsletter, “The Asset Champion”
- Inclusion in Search Institute’s online, state-by-state listing of Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth (HC • HY) initiatives, including a link to your initiative’s Web site, if available
- Eligibility to use the HC • HY logo in your initiative (a permissions fee is charged)
- Connections with local allies and media who contact Search Institute to learn about local asset-building initiatives
- Recognition as a leader and resource for the national asset-building movement
Criteria for Registration
There is no fee for having your initiative registered with Search Institute, but it must meet four criteria to be included:
- The framework of 40 Developmental Assets is key to your efforts;
- Three or more sectors of your community are involved and committed for the long term and are working to bring asset building to their sectors;
- Youth are involved in the planning and implementation of your initiative; and
- You are willing to share what you are learning about asset building and building community initiatives with the national network of initiatives and with Search Institute.
NOTE: At this time, Search Institute does not have a formalized network of individuals or organizations engaged in asset building outside of a community initiative context. However, we encourage you to tell us about your asset-building efforts. Send your stories to stories@search-institute.org.
Registration Form
If you meet these criteria and would like to be listed as an asset-building initiative in the network of Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth initiatives, please fill out the form below.
