Family support and parent involvement are central to the idea of successful development. A strong family provides the foundation for building the Developmental Assets and setting youth on a path to future success.
What Makes a Successful Family?
By surveying families, Search Institute has begun to develop an idea of what it takes to make a strong and successful family.
- The American Family Assets Study (2012)
- Building Strong Families: A Study of African-American and Latino/Latina Parents in the United States (2004)
- Building Strong Families: A Preliminary Study on What Parents Need to Succeed (2002)
- Fact Sheets from Building Strong Families
- Strengths of Adoptive Families (1994)
Other Research Publications on Families and Parenting
- Search Institute Insights & Evidence is a free online periodical that interprets Search Institute’s research for policy and practice.
- The Possible Dream: What Families in Distressed Communities Need to Do to Help Kids Thrive provides findings from a study on urban and rural distressed communities.
