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The 40 Developmental Assets provide a common framework and common language for everyone - students, staff, families, and community - to promote positive development.
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Assets are positive factors in the lives of young people that research has shown promote thriving. Some of these factors occur outside young people in their homes, schools, and communities, these are EXTERNAL ASSETS. Other factors are found within the young people, these are INTERNAL ASSETS. Within the EXTERNAL ASSETS there are 4 categories of assets:
There are also 4 categories of INTERNAL ASSETS:
Within each category there are a number of assets, 20 EXTERNAL ASSETS and 20 INTERNAL ASSETS in total. Click here for the Asset list for adolescents. The Asset list for children is here.
If you'd like to have a small poster sized set of the 8 category symbols, click here , then print them on a colour printer.
This website is under construction, please send your comments and suggestions to me by using the email link above. Check back again soon!
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| Asset Category Information and Activities
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| Support The symbol of this category says it all - its about love. Young people (and all people) need to experience love and to experience caring and support in their homes, their schools and their communities.
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| Empowerment The empowerment assets are about young people feeling valued by family, by peers, at school and in the community. They are about having important things to do and knowing that they are seen as being valuable.
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| Boundaries & Expectations Young people do better when there are clear boundaries, when behavioural expectations are clearly established, and when consequences are spelled out. It really helps if these are fairly consistent between home, school, and community.
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| Constructive Use of Time Young people need positive, worthwhile, challenging, fun things to spend their time at; they do not usually do well when they spend a lot of time hanging around with peers with nothing to do.
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| Commitment to Learning Young people need to develop their natural intellectual curiosity and their interest in learning new things and new skills, to become lifelong learners!
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| Positive Values Positive values can act like a 'compass' to help keep us on track throughout our lives. The Assets in this category represent near universal pro-social values.
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| Social Competencies Young people need to develop skills to meet, get to know, and build positive relationships with people, even when people are different than they are.
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| Positive Identity When a young person knows they are worthwhile and have a good sense of their unique talents, skills, abilities, and promise they are much more likely to thrive.
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