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Kindergarten students across two school divisions were asked to think about what they like about living in a small town or on a farm and draw a picture of it. The winning drawing was chosen at a large gathering of the Rural Early Years Coalition (REYC) Advisory Committee.MORE

As a student at her zoned high school, Sarina felt lost in the mix of a huge school. Her school was overcrowded and there were no teachers with whom she made a connection. Sarina recalls, “I started slacking, especially second semester. I went up and down like a roller coaster. I was still slacking in the 10th grade.”MORE

Step into the parent coordinator’s office at EBC and you will find Ms. Trinidad and the rest of the Assets planning team huddled over pizza, hammering out Asset building strategies to help students understand how vital their voices truly are.MORE

Five years ago in the Spring Branch Independent School District in Texas, a small experiment was launched. The experiment involved 40 adult mentors and students, two schools, and a successful Dallas program model. Today the SpringBoard Mentor Program involves over 600 mentor matches on over 15 campuses throughout the school district.MORE

You never really know the ripple of influence your actions have on the world around you until a group of your biggest fans is asked to tell a story that sums up the kind of person you are. It is then that you see the wave you created crash to the shore, to the delight of those close enough to see its surge and hear its roar.MORE

The local high school conducted its first SEARCH survey back in 1998 as part of a community-driven need to become more aware of ways to increase our youth’s Developmental Assets. Healthy Youth has helped launch many now-longstanding youth development efforts.MORE

The Fairmont Healthy Youth Committee and the Martin County Youth Intervention and Prevention Programs hosted a SPARK (Supporting and Promoting Assets to Reach Kids) Youth Summit on September, 17, 2008, in Fairmont, MN.MORE

At Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, Dr. Marie Watkins, Associate Professor and the director of the Center for Service Learning (CSL), teaches a service-learning based course called Community Youth Development. The course is a requirement for the 18 credit academic interdisciplinary Minor in Community Youth Development. Officers from Youth Voice One Vision (YVOV) and Youth As Resources (YAR) have a co-lecturing role in the course, connecting their lived experiences to the Developmental Assets to and the qualities of an effective youth worker. The YVOV and YAR officers also plan and participate in service-learning projects with the students in the class.MORE

Thanks to GetNvolved, organizing available service and volunteer opportunities and hours is much easier and more fulfilling for students and staff in three Wisconsin high schools this year. GetNvolved is an online program that connects schools, students, and volunteer agencies to serve all of them better.MORE

Students in first, second, and third grade at Aquila Primary Center in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, have the opportunity to be a part of their school’s Service Club, engaging in short- and long-term service-learning projects every other Tuesday after school.MORE