Assets Get Active

Clarkstown, New York

Susan Solar
ssolar@ccsd.edu
845-624-3438

The mission of “Assets Get Active” is to take all that we have learned and integrated from the 40 Developmenatl Assets and apply them to school and community. Every month, we plan and implement a number of events that promote the assets, especially those of acceptance and caring about each other. Our events include a week of random acts of kindness, the making of a video for a young man recently paralyzed, the presentation of “Rachels Challenge” and a school-wide community services fair where we had 20 community service organizations set up tables in our lobby for the day and hundreds of students were able to connect and gather valuable information.

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Assets in Action

Getting Active with the Assets in Clarkstown, New York

During the 2008 Search Institute conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Susan Solar was struck with an idea. The Clarkstown South High School teacher started thinking about ways to get more time in the school day for asset building. Clarkstown South High School’s Assets Team, a student club formed to promote the 40 Developmental Assets, had recently been established, but their brief meetings didn’t seem like enough time to devote to asset building.MORE

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