Search Institute

For Educators

• Building Assets—Reducing Risks Program and Implementation Training
  Help your 9th graders successfully transition to high school.
  Learn more about the Building Assets Reducing Risks Program 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.

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

• Raising Thriving Kids: Simple Everyday Steps to Better Parenting Training of Trainers
  Help parents build Developmental Assets® with their children.

• 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.