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40 Developmental assets. You provide the passionate programs, the Assets will provide you with the powerful purposes behind them. Ned Parks with Guest Jenifer Stencel Part 3 October 13, 2011. What are the 40 Developmental Assets? Who is the Search Institute?. 1958
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40 Developmental assets You provide the passionate programs, the Assets will provide you with the powerful purposes behind them Ned Parks with Guest Jenifer Stencel Part 3 October 13, 2011
What are the 40 Developmental Assets?Who is the Search Institute? • 1958 • Promotes positive change on behalf of young people www.search-institute.org
What the Search Institute discovered: They represent the relationships, opportunities, and personal qualities that young people need to avoid risks and to thrive.
Internal Assets • Commitment to Learning • Positive Values • Social Competencies • Positive Identity
Commitment to Learnpsst: Reading for pleasure included Programs 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? • 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
Commitment to learning asset #32Cupcake decorating class;moms/daughters
Positive Values: Strong in spirit and Self Programs Organization Are you a model? The staff? Is your organization? TAB given responsibility to lead programs and services • 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
Ice-cream social and “Caffeinated Herb gardens Asset 26, 30 (Positive Values)
And the towers did not fall I’d say they are Socially Competent Asset 32 & 36
Social Competencies: work w/others to get things done Programs and Services Organization Can they help: - write your Teen Mission Statement and/or Core Values? Sit on a Strategic Plan Committee? “Cultural Center?” • Outreach with Boys/Girls Club, My Brother/My Sister, etc etc. • Support the cultures in your community and sensitive to? • Teen Round Table
Positive Identity: Grow their purposeIt’s the DNA of the new Teen
Positive Identity: “control” + “purposeful”= optimism Programs and Services Organization Selected teens can meet and talk with ADM Teens can be mentored by Library Board Library Youth Summit • 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
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? TAKE THIS HOME:
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.