Recognition | Awards | Quotes
Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Social Work put on a half-day seminar entitled “Super Hero Training Camp: 40 Developmental Assets” to help train faculty, professionals, and students who work with children.
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The Logan County Drug Free Youth Coalition has surveyed students in several Ohio schools about underage drinking and drug use, and found that peer pressure and parental tolerance are two of the top factors that encourage underage drinking.
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The Los Alamos school district is developing a plan to prevent bullying, based on the Developmental Assets, according to the Los Alamos Monitor. The article share some interesting insights on bullying in schools.
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YouthWorker.com featured a game from Search Institute’s Great Group Games in their Share & Tell section.
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mySouthwestGA.com featured an article on Search Institute, including trainer Jim Conway‘s explanations of the Developmental Assets.
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Youth Today calls Peter Benson’s latest book, Sparks: How Parents Can Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers “an engaging guide for parents. This new aspect of youth development is an exciting and worthy outgrowth of the developmental assets approach.” Youth Today also reviews Search Institute Press title Empowering Youth “a gold mine for youth workers and youth advocates.”
The Search Institute Press book Parenting Preteens with a Purpose is featured on the Midwest Book Review’s Web site. you can learn how to relate to your preteen!
The Search Institute Press publication Great Group Games is featured in Tennessee’s Consignor magazine. For more information and a chance to check free tips, click to read the article here.
Check out the blog for YALSA and how using the 40 Developmental Assets can help teens gain social competence, support, personal identity, and positive values as a result of their friendships.
Read the VOYA June 2008 article and learn how libraries are using Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets. Check out the article by downloading the PDF here!
Search Institute was cited in the December 2007 issue of Redbook. Research about preteens and teens that volunteer is highlighted on page 152 in “Make Your Holidays Sparkle & Glow,” which includes holiday ideas and tips from readers.
The Search Institute Press publication Great Group Games was featured in the spring 2008 issue of Learning Magazine.
Search Institute Press publication Teaching Kids to Change the World was reviewed in PaperClip Communications, February 2008. “This new resource is a practical guide that provides educators with the essential tools to inspire young people to change the world for the better… This book is a must-read for educators and parents committed to providing young people with the wisdom to continue the sustainability of our planet.”
Search Institute Press publication Raise Them Up
The Arkansas Center for the Book at the Arkansas State Library annually creates Fresh from Arkansas, a poster highlighting Arkansas authors. They are distributed at various festivals (including the National Book Festival) and to Arkansas libraries and schools. They chose Raise Them Up by Kareem Moody.
Safe Places to Learn, a Search Institute Press title, was a finalist for the Midwest Independent Publishers Associations 18th Annual Midwest Book Awards. The event, sponsored by Publisher’s Weekly, attracted 167 nominees from 78 publishers in 12 Midwestern states. Read more about Safe Places to Learn.
2005 VOYA Review Editor’s Choice selection. Read more about Life Freaks Me Out: And Then I Deal With It.
Winner of the Association of Educational Publishers’ 2000 Distinguished Achievement Award. Read more about You Have to Live It.
“Search Institute is a national treasure. It provides the new ideas and the research America needs to grow healthy and successful youth.”
— Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State
“The concepts of Developmental Assets and asset-building community are giant leaps forward both in understanding the power of engaged communities and in creating strategies for improving the well-being of children and families.”
— Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States
“At a time when too many are criticizing students, families, and schools, [Peter Benson] redirects attention to students’ skills, talents, promise, and possibilities. Benson provides a useful vocabulary—Developmental Assets—and a comprehensive blueprint to strengthen families, schools, and communities.”
— Joyce L. Epstein, Johns Hopkins University
“The 40 assets for the healthy development of youth that have been identified by Search Institute should be extended by one—Search Institute itself. No institution is doing more to enhance understanding of the bases of positive development of our nation’s youth… In building a compelling case for a focus on the assets requisite for healthy youth development, the work of Search Institute is making a singular and sustainable contribution to the future of civil society.”
— Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University
“Peter Benson continues to remind us of how far short of the mark we have fallen in meeting the needs of our youngest generation. But then he provides a gift: a unifying vision that we can all rally around: parents, neighbors, youth serving organizations, and ultimately whole communities committed to the healthy development of all our kids.” — Judy Vredenburgh, Big Brothers
Big Sisters of America
“What Search has to offer the academic community is a model for applying research to real-world issues.”
— Michael Nakkula, Harvard Graduate School of Education
“Benson’s Developmental Assets model has become the most widely recognized approach to positive youth development in the United States and, increasingly, around the world. His groundbreaking vision and public voice have inspired a sea change in the way practice and policy are conducted throughout the youth development field.” — William Damon, Stanford University
