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In the social networking world, there is a lot of discussion about taking your online community offline and meeting face-to-face. But what about taking your offline community online? That’s exactly what the Greater Omaha Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth (GO HC • HY) initiative has done by creating a thriving online presence through Facebook.MORE

When the Millard School District began using the asset framework a few years ago, Geri McClenny, a school social worker at Millard Learning Center, an alternative high school in the district, volunteered to be one of the school’s Asset Builders and has since worked in many capacities to promote the Developmental Assets at the school.MORE

The Millard school district in Omaha, Nebraska was first introduced to the Developmental Assets Profile (DAP) in 2005. They began by administering it to at-risk students and students that had been placed on long-term suspension for drug or alcohol use, being of the opinion that a strength-based approach had the potential to show positive results with this group. It was not long, however, before parents and teachers of other students began asking about the DAP. Since then the DAP has been quickly gathering supporters among schools in Omaha.MORE