Search Institute

For Educators

• BARR Building Assets—Reducing Risks Program and Implementation Training
  Help your 9th graders successfully transition to high school.
  Learn more about BARR and why it’s so successful in getting results.

• Powerful Teaching: Added Impact without Added Work
  Examine daily instructional practice through the asset-building lens.

• Building Developmental Assets in School Communities
  Engage your entire school community with this inspiring introductory training for K–12.

• Deepening Asset Building in School Communities
  Extend the learning of the BDASC training by going beyond personal commitment to organizational change.

• Training of Trainers: Building Developmental Assets in School Communities (view the resource library)
  Invest in your school’s future by building a team of trainers to deliver this inspiring workshop multiple times.

• Change of Heart: Creating a More Caring School Climate — also available as a Training of Trainers
  Address school climate issues by engaging your students as agents of change.

For Communities

• Getting to Outcomes with Developmental Assets: Ten Steps to Measuring Success in Youth Programs and Communities
  Learn an effective evaluation process to improve your asset-based efforts.

• Motivational Strategies with Challenging Youth series
  • Part 1: Human Motivation, Assets, and Positive Behavior Change
  • Part 2: Motivational Interviewing & Change Talk: Increasing Importance, Confidence, & Readiness to Change
  • Part 3: Agency Implementation & Fidelity to Approach: Technical Assistance and Train-the-Trainer Modules

• What’s Up with Our Kids?: A Presentation of Your Community’s Survey Data
  Let us present your survey findings to build shared understanding and action steps.

• Assets in Action: A Journey of Community Change
  Help develop a community-wide movement.

• Training of Trainers: Essentials of Asset Building (View the Resource Library)
  Create a local cadre of asset advocates equipped to deliver two core Search Institute trainings.

• Generations Together: Your Vision and Plan for an Asset-Rich Community
  Develop a shared vision and plan for growing an asset-rich community.

For Young People and Adults Together

• Leading with Assets
  Empower our most under-utilized—yet most effective—group around youth.

• Youth, Money & Assets: A Positive Approach to Spending, Saving and Giving
  Explore the mixed messages about money and open the dialogue.
• Youth Serve!: Asset-Building Strategies for Stengthening Service-Learning
  Provide service-learning programs that are asset-rich.
• Youth Leadership: Asset-Building Strategies for Unleashing the Gifts of Young People
  Engage young people as active leaders.

For Youth-Serving Professionals and Organizations

• More Than Just a Place To Go: Using Developmental Assets to Strengthen Your Youth-Serving Program
  Maximize the positive impact of your program.

• Infusing Assets into Your Organization
  Use strength-based approaches to build assets through your organization.

For Congregations

• Integrating Assets into Congregations: Harnessing the Power of the Faith Community
  Harnessing the power of your faith community.

For All Audiences

• Introducing Developmental Assets
  Fill your local auditorium or gym with individuals of all ages to hear the asset message.

• Everyone’s an Asset Builder
  Make assets an active part of your community.

• Sharing the Asset Message
  Learn to deliver a variety of asset-building messages to multiple audiences.

Customized Trainings

• Customized Keynotes and Conference Packages
  Inspire and motivate your audience with a customized presentation from a Search Institute trainer.