Healthy Community Healthy Youth Professional Resources

Healthy Community Healthy Youth Initiative and/or 40 Developmental Asset Framework Resources

Cataloged below are all resources pertaining to the Healthy Community Healthy Youth Initiative and the 40 Developmental Asset Framework currently held by either the Family Resource Center of Sheboygan County(FRC) or the YMCA and are listed as such.  All organizations are welcome to these resources and can be checked out through either the FRC or the YMCA. 

 

Family Resource Center Resources

Author

Books

Search Institute,

50 Asset-Building Activities for Workshops, Presentation, and Meetings

Search Institute,

A Fragile Foundation:  The State of Developmental Assets Among American Youth

Roehlkepartain, Leffert,

A Leaders Guide to What Children Need to Succeed: Working Together to Build Assets from Birth to Age 11

Benson, Peter

All Kids Are Our Kids:  What Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents (Second Edition)

Search Institute

An Asset Builder's Guide to Service-Learning

Search Institute

An Asset Builder's Guide to Youth Leadership

Search Institute,

Ask Me Where I’m Going and Other Revealing Messages from Today’s Teens

Scales,

Boxed In and Bored:  How Middle Schools Continue to Fail Young Adolescents-And What Good Middle Schools Do Right

Lutheran Brotherhood,

Building a Better Me:  40 Ways to Build Your Own Assets

Search Institute

Building Assets is Elementary: Group Activities for Helping Kids Ages 8-12 Succeed

Scales, Sesma, and Bolstrom

Coming Into Their Own:  How Developmental Assets Promote Positive Growth in Middle Childhood

Ackerman,

Conversations on the Go: Clever Questions to Keep Teens and Grown-ups Talking (2 Copies)

Scales and Leffert,

Developmental Assets:  A Synthesis of Scientific Research on Adolescents

Search Institute

Generators: 20 Activities to Recharge Your Intergenerational group

Search Institute

Get the Word Out:  Communication Tools and Ideas for Asset Builders Everywhere

Search Institute

Get Things Going!: 50 Asset-Building Activities, for Workshops, Presentations, and Meetings (3 Copies)

Ragsdale and Saylor

Great Group Games: 175 Boredom-Busting, Zero-Prep Team Builders for All Ages

Starkman, Scales, Roberts,

Great Places to Learn: Creating Asset-Building Schools That Help Students Succeed (Second Edition)

Starkman, Scales, Roberts,

Great Places to Learn: How Asset-Building Schools Help Students Succeed

Starkman,

Ideas That Cook:  Activities for Asset Builders in School Communities (2 Copies)

Hong, K.L.

Life Freaks Me Out...And Then I Deal With It: Reassuring Secrets From a Former Teenager

Oparah, Dawn C.

Make A World of Difference: 50 Asset-Building Activities to Help Teens Explore Diversity

Probst, Kristie

Mentoring for Mentoring Results:  Asset-Building Tips, Tools, and Activities for Youth and Adults

Grothe, 

More…Building Assets Together:  130 Group Activities for Helping Youth 

YMCA,

Our History, Our Future: A Celebration of Asset-Building in the YMCA

Search Institute,

Parenting at the Speed of Teens: Positive Tips on Everyday Issues

Search Institute,

Pass It On at School: Activity Handouts for Creating Caring Schools

Search Institute,

Pass It On:  Ready-to-Use Handouts for Asset-Builders

Search Institute,

Pass It On:  Ready-to-Use Handouts for Asset-Builders, Second Edition (2 copies)

Roehlkepartain, Jolene

Raising Healthy Children Day By Day:  366 Reading for Parents, Teachers, and Caregivers (Birth to 5)

Leffert, Benson, Roehlkepartain,

Starting Out Right: Developmental Assets for Children

Search Institute,

Step by Step: A Young Persons Guide to Positive Community Change

Espeland,

Succeed Every Day:  Daily Readings for Teens

Kimball-Baker,

Tag, You’re It: 50 Easy Ways to Connect with Young People (2 Copies)

Search Institute

Taking Asset Building Personally: An Action and Reflection Workbook

Roehlkepartain, Jolene

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

Search Institute

The Journey of Community Change: A How -to Guide for Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Initiatives

Lucero and Roybal,

The Power of Parents:  Parent Engagement in Schools and the Developmental Assets (Assets for Colorado Youth)

Starkman, 

Walking Your Talk:  Building Assets in Organizations That Serve Youth

Benson, Galbraith, Espeland,

What Kids Needs to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids

Benson, Galbraith, Espeland,

What Teens Needs to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future (2 copies)

Roehlkepartain, Leffert,

What Young Children Need to Succeed:  Working Together to Build Assets from Birth to Age 11 (2 Copies)

Howard,

When Parents Ask for Help:  Everyday Issues through an Asset-Building Lens (handouts for people raising adolescents)

Family Resource Center Resources

Author

Pamphlets

Search Institute

Healthy Communities, Healthy Youth: A National Initiative of Search Institute to Unite Communities for Children and Adolescents

Lutheran Brotherhood,

150 Ways to Show Kids You Care

Lutheran Brotherhood,

Building Better Friendships

Roehlkepartain,

Creating Intergenerational Community: 75 Ideas for Building Relationships Between Youth and Adults

Lutheran Brotherhood,

Grading Grownups: Take Action for Stronger Relationships (An Asset-Building Resource)

Draayer and Roehlkepartain,

Learning and Living: How Asset Building for Youth Can Unify a School’s Mission

Feldmeyer and Roehlkepartain,

Parenting with a Purpose: A Positive Approach for Raising Confident, Caring Youth

Lutheran Brotherhood,

Parents Guide to Teaching Youth to Share

Search Institute

Putting Assets in Action: Making Your Community a Better Place for Young People…and for You

Lutheran Brotherhood,

Tapping the Potential: Discovering Congregations’ Role in Building Assets in Youth

Lutheran Brotherhood,

Teaching Youth to Share:  How Congregations Can Nurture Habits of Sharing and Serving (An Asset-Building Resource)

Search Institute

What is Healthy Community, Healthy Youth?

YMCA Resources

Author

Books

Benson, Peter

All Kids Are Our Kids:  What Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents (Second Edition)

Ackerman,

Conversations on the Go: Clever Questions to Keep Teens and Grown-ups Talking

Scales and Leffert,

Developmental Assets:  A Synthesis of Scientific Research on Adolescents

Search Institute

Generators: 20 Activities to Recharge Your Intergenerational group

Search Institute

Get the Word Out:  Communication Tools and Ideas for Asset Builders Everywhere

Search Institute

Get Things Going!: 50 Asset-Building Activities, for Workshops, Presentations, and Meetings

Ragsdale and Saylor

Great Group Games: 175 Boredom-Busting, Zero-Prep Team Builders for All Ages

Search Institute,

Pass It On:  Ready-to-Use Handouts for Asset-Builders, Second Edition

Search Institute

Speaking of Developmental Assets:  Presentation Resources and Strategies

Kimball-Baker,

Tag, You’re It: 50 Easy Ways to Connect with Young People

Roehlkepartain, Jolene

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

Search Institute

The Journey of Community Change: A How -to Guide for Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Initiatives

Benson, Galbraith, Espeland,

What Kids Needs to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids

Benson, Galbraith, Espeland,

What Teens Needs to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future

Roehlkepartain, Leffert,

What Young Children Need to Succeed:  Working Together to Build Assets from Birth to Age 11