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40 Developmental assetsYou provide the passionate programs,

the Assets will provide you with the powerful purposes behind them

Ned Parks with Guest Jenifer StencelPart 3

October 13, 2011


What are the 40 Developmental Assets?Who is the Search Institute?

www.search-institute.org

• 1958• Promotes positive change on behalf of

young people


What the Search Institute discovered:

They represent the relationships, opportunities, and personal qualities that young people need to avoid risks and to thrive.


What the Search Institute discovered:


Healthy Communities Healthy Youth


Made for Each Other


Internal Assets

• Commitment to Learning

• Positive Values

• Social Competencies

• Positive Identity


Commitment to Learnpsst: Reading for pleasure included

Programs

• Classes and lectures are open to teens Example cooking, knitting, rain gardens, etc.

• Collaboration: Garden Club and Teens plot a herb garden

• Teen input to summer reading list

Organization

• Does your space encourage teens to stay, browse, read?

• Do you have various formats and a popular non-fiction collection?

• Means to survey what teens want to know?

• Virtual literacy?


Commitment to learning asset #32

Cupcake decorating class;moms/daughters


Positive Values: Strong in spirit and Self

Programs

• Back a local cause and even participate. Example: Clean Your City- clean around the library

• Donate your gently used books to a shelter- have Volunteens lead it.

• TAB

Organization

• Are you a model? The staff? Is your organization?

• TAB given responsibility to lead programs and services


Ice-cream social and “Caffeinated Herb gardens Asset 26, 30 (Positive Values)


And the towers did not fall

I’d say they areSociallyCompetent

Asset32 & 36


Social Competencies: work w/others to get things done

Programs and Services

• Outreach with Boys/Girls Club, My Brother/My Sister, etc etc.

• Support the cultures in your community and sensitive to?

• Teen Round Table

Organization

• Can they help:

- write your Teen Mission Statement and/or

Core Values?

• Sit on a Strategic Plan Committee?

• “Cultural Center?”


Positive Identity: Grow their purposeIt’s the DNA of the new Teen


Positive Identity: “control” + “purposeful”= optimism

Programs and Services

• Teen guest blogger, podcaster, playlist etc: and has control

• Library Camp: Grow a young librarian

• Progressive Party/Dinner

• Teens identify a need and fill it

Organization

• Selected teens can meet and talk with ADM

• Teens can be mentored by Library Board

• Library Youth Summit


TAKE THIS HOME:

What do you offer teens that no one else can/does?

What assets can you ‘advertise’ today?

Who can you network with to fill a teen need?

Who else might be interested in Asset Building?


ASCPL Teen Mission Statement:

… provide customized library services that connect teens to their local

community and the larger world.


You provide the passionate programs

The Assets back you with powerful purpose.