This resource for church workers includes planning worksheets, ideas for youth programs, topics for parent workshops, and 10 reproducible bulletin inserts.

Building Assets in Congregations: A Practical Guide for Helping Youth Grow Up Healthy

Roehlkepartain, Eugene C.

Benson PhD, Peter L.

Reference

Search Institute Press

Combining service-learning and the asset framework in congregational, school, and youth program settings, this resource is designed as a workbook and includes ideas, suggestions, and worksheets to make the most of the asset-building potential of any service-learning program.

An Asset Builder's Guide to Service-Learning

Politics & Social Sciences

Bright, Thomas

Margolis-Rupp, Beth

Philosophy

This hands-on workbook provides tools, ideas, tips, and suggestions for nurturing developmental assets in young people through leadership opportunities. Using stories and examples, it shows how youth workers and educators in congregations, schools, and youth-serving organizations can prepare youth for leadership in their organizations and communities by giving them the strong foundation they need in life. 
Topics include: Key characteristics of effective leaders. Expanding your idea of youth leadership. Helping adults and youth work together. Overcoming challenges.

An Asset Builder's Guide to Youth Leadership

Education & Teaching

Adams, David

Finn, Jerry

Griffin-Wiesner MEd, Jennifer

Davis, Kalisha

Schools & Teaching

Raising Kids Who Thrive! Birth to 1 Year (Pack of 20 Pamplets)

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

The 21 lessons in this resource for teachers and counselors help make school a place where all students feel supported and accepted so they can focus on classes, friendship, and fun activities. Over the course of the lessons, the leader introduces the concept of Developmental Assets®, teaches students how to build these assets for themselves and others, and gives them the tools to spread messages of kindness, caring, boundaries, and acceptance to other students and adults. Role-playing and other activities will help students learn to effectively stop meanness with a respectful, caring demeanor toward both victim and antagonist. Ultimately, school becomes a warmer place where both teachers and students thrive.

Safe Places to Learn: 21 Lessons to Help Students Promote a Caring School Climate

Science & Math

Sulley, Paul

Technology

This indispensable resource presents more than 150 “best of the best,” thought-provoking, varied, and engaging activities for ages 12 to 18 that will energize and inspire any group of young people.Grounded in Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets framework, these games and projects explore a wide range of issues that affect youth development, including family communication, school climate, peer relationships, service-learning, and self-esteem. The book includes more than 25 new activities as well as dozens of favorites, all updated with input from asset builders across North America. From physically challenging to thought-provoking, engaging to reflective, each activity focuses on a unique concept and offers a creative vehicle for studying a topic such as leadership, diversity, and community involvement (among others), allowing team leaders to empower young people to discover their own strengths. Includes real-world tips from educators and youth providers with over 50 reproducible handouts in English and Spanish.

The Best of Building Assets Together: Favorite Group Activities That Help Youth Succeed

Self-Help

Roehlkepartain, Jolene L.

Success

Raising Kids Who Thrive! 2 Years (Pack of 20 Pamplets)

Raising Kids Who Thrive! 4 Years (Pack of 20 Pamplets)

Raising Kids Who Thrive! 8 to 9 Years (Pack of 20 Pamplets)

Providing a wide range of tools, this practical guide aids teachers in creating a nurturing preschool environment and helps preschoolers develop critical social competencies. Containing new findings from Search Institute’s Developmental Assets® research for preschoolers, this easy-to-use guidebook identifies what young children need from their families, teachers, and caregivers. The simple roadmap reveals the value of the work that teachers are already doing and provides content for parents about the relationship between families and preschool settings. Reproducible handouts make it easy to add fresh ideas and content to the curriculum and assist educators in family outreach—creating strong connections with parents. In addition, many of the activity tips offer new interpretations of familiar songs, books, games, and art projects.

Great Preschools: Building Developmental Assets in Early Childhood

King, Karen

Will MBA, Tamara J.

Mergler MEd, Michelle

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