You've Done a Search Institute Survey, What's Next?
Popular Search Institute Resources for Asset Building
In Your Community:
What's
Up With Our Kids? The Presentation of Your Survey's Data This 1½
to 2 hour training builds an understanding of young people's strengths and
needs in your community based on results of the Attitudes and Behaviors survey
or the Me and My World survey.
The
Asset Approach This eight-page booklet introduces adults to the
power of using the assets in their daily interactions with youth. A great
handout for sharing the power for the assets with others!
150
Ways to Show Kids You Care This mini-poster lists thoughtful and
practical little acts of caring that make a world of difference to young
people. Perfect on bulletin boards, refrigerators, as inserts in mailings
or paycheck envelopes.
Your
Workplace: Simple Investment, Big Reward Introduce business owners,
managers, and staff to the developmental assets and show them the rewards
and benefits of intentionally building assets in the workplace.
Your
Family Using Simple Wisdom in Raising our Children This booklet
helps parents and caregivers reflect on their important role and the power
they have to bring good things into the lives of their children.
Building
Assets in Congregations A Practical Guide for Helping Youth Grow Up Healthy
Perfect for youth workers, clergy, or volunteers, this guide includes worksheets,
tips for workshops, bulletin inserts, and ideas for introducing asset-building
into an existing congregation youth program.
Pass
It On! Ready-To-Use Handouts for Asset Builders This collection of
92 easy-to-read reproducible handouts provides inspiration and practical
suggestions for everyone.
In Your School Community:
Great
Places to Learn How Asset-Building Schools Help Students Succeed
Rooted in many years of research, this foundational book shines as a powerful,
positive guide to infusing assets into any school community.
You
Have to Live It! Building Developmental Assets in School Communities
video. This award-winning video lets you see and hear first hand how schools
from around North America are building asserts for and with students. Its
messages are both inspiring and instructive as teachers, principals, coordinators
and students tell how assets have made a difference in their school
Pass
it On at School! Activity Handouts for Creating Caring Schools Schools
where students feel valued and cared for are the best places to learn. This
activity-based resource equips everyone in a school community - cafeteria
worker, counselor, superintendent, teacher, custodian - with handouts to create
change for the better by building assets in students.
For Young People:
Take
It to the Next Level Making Your Life What You Want It To Be Filled
with activities and journal topics, this activity book guides young people
through the journey of adolescence from a developmental asset approach.
It offers teens and young adolescents at way to take the assets 'deeper' by
offering activities for self-exploration and action.
Me@My
Best Ideas for Staying True to Yourself This tool is specifically
designed to introduce young people to the assets. Written by young people
who know how to communicate the power of "keeping it real" to their peers,
the booklet encourages exploration of the asset categories, what they mean
to them personally, and it inspires them to build their own strengths.
Personal
Commitment Cards Young people love these personal reminders that
they play an important role in the quality of their own lives, These credit-card
sized cards have a personal affirmation on one side with a signature bar
for the youth to sign. The other side lists assets actions the young person
can commit to.
More Resources:
REWARDS!
Relationship Program The name says it all. Search Institute wants
to REWARD you for all the asset building work you do. With this yearly e-subscription,
you'll get discounts on resources and services as well as have a direct connection
to the asset experts at Search Institute and other asset builders in the
United States and beyond.
Healthy Communities-Healthy
Youth Conference
November 4-6, 2004, St. Paul, Minnesota. Designed for people who work with
or care about youth, this one-of-a-kind conference brings together people
from different community sectors nationally and internationally who share
a common goal: to work together to promote positive youth development through
asset building. During the conference, participants will learn with and from
each other, make connections that will prove beneficial in their work and
lives, and renew their commitment to asset building through hard work and
fun!
Healthy Communities-Healthy
Youth E-Mail Discussion Group This discussion group is for coordinators
and other leaders of community-wide initiatives who are seeking to apply
Search Institute's framework of developmental assets in their community.
Search Institute
Trainings are great ways to excite and educate people about the assets
and help them put their energy into action.
