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Search Institute is a non-profit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Search Institute’s research validates our intuition about what is needed and what we have experienced The list of developmental assets grew out of much reading, thinking, and discussion – among the researchers and with community people who work in the field of youth development – about what young people need to succeed. Once the list was made, researchers looked for and found literally hundreds of studies that support the choice of these assets. In addition, they constructed a survey that measures the number of assets in young people’s lives, and the found that the more assets young people have, the better off they seemed to be. The list of developmental assets identifies crucial relationships, experiences, opportunities, and personal qualities that children and adolescents need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible * The framework recognizes the importance of a community-wide approach to asset building Ask the group, “What other groups/organizations could we add to this diagram to represent a community-wide approach?” If no participants say – make sure to add, “law enforcement (police officers), churches (or faith community), youth, town government”. Marion will introduce the Community Building handout and talk about it. * This means we move toward affirming and increasing young people’s strengths. If we can agree that this is a good thing, let’s talk about how to affirm and increase young people’s strengths In education, in organizations, in companies, what’s the usual way we try to solve problems? If we have a problem with violence or drugs or anything else, what do we usually do? We implement a program. We implement a program to reduce the incidence of drug abuse, or of bullying, or of teen pregnancy, or just about anything else we can think of. In many cases we implement a “targeted” program to “fix” the kids. Now, many programs, implemented well by com