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Kentucky’s Ohio County Together We Care has gone through some ups and downs in the ten years since it started – but you wouldn’t know it if you took a snapshot look at the initiative.MORE

By 2004, Hudson, Ohio’s Community First, an initiative focused on teen drug and alcohol use prevention, had become mostly dormant. But in the four years since then, a group of philanthropic businessmen have helped re-invigorate the initiative, Community First has become a highly visible organization in Hudson.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

Colorado’s Youth Partnership for Health (YPH), a teen advisory committee for health issues in the state, is nearly ten years old, 25 youth members deep and eleven towns and cities strong. The goal of the YPH is to serve as a sounding board and bring youthful perspectives to all services and programs that impact youth.MORE

We are all familiar with what our system terms the “at-risk students,” those that seem to get into trouble no matter how much help they have, no matter how much attention they receive.MORE

There are two words that best describe the members of Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth initiative in Old Saybrook, CT: passionate and committed.MORE

Want a glimpse of state-of-the-art youth involvement? Then visit the port city of Hampton, Va., where more than 600 young people a year are involved in leadership, policy, and decision making.MORE

The City of Hampton, Virginia was a major asset-building hub even before it was formally involved with the Developmental Assets®. Hampton, a beautiful city located on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, was one of the first cities in the country to create a department focused on positive youth development in the local government.MORE

The Office of Student Services held its Back-to-School Symposium August 17 at Forest Park High School. The theme of the conference was “Building Assets in Our Schools and Communities,”…MORE

PWCS students and staff were on hand to receive the Youth Human Rights Award from the Prince William County Human Rights Commission this past Saturday for the Healthy Communities, Healthy Youth (HCHY) program, a countywide initiative.MORE