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Henry County School System > Coordinated School Health > Assets

 Assets
The Asset team is a program to help young adults build developmental assets. There are 40 developmental assets, 20 external and 20 internal. 
 
Eight basic asset types:
  • support
  • empowerment
  • boundaries & expectations
  • constructive use of time
  • commitment to learning
  • positive values
  • social competencies
  • positive identity
 
Listed below are the 40 Developmental Assets:
 
  1. Family Support, lots of love and support.
  2. Positive Family Communication, my parent and I communicate.
  3. Other Adult Relationships, I receive support from 3 or more nonparent adults.
  4. Caring Neighborhood,I have caring neighbors.
  5. Caring School Climate, my school provides a caring encouraging environment.
  6. Parent Involvement in Schooling, my parent are actively involved in my schooling.
  7. Community values youth, adults in my community value youth.
  8. Youth as resources, youth are given useful roles in my community.
  9. Service to others, I serve my community for one hour or more per week.
  10. Safety, I feel safe at home, school and in the neighborhood.
  11. Family Boundaries, my family has rules and consequences and monitors my whereabouts.
  12. School Boundaries, my school has rules and consequences.
  13. Neighborhood Boundaries, monitors young peoples behavior.
  14. Adult Role Models, responible behavior.
  15. Positive Peer Influence, my friends model responsible behavior.
  16. High Expectations, I am encouraged to do well.
  17. Creative Activities, I spend at least 3 hours or more per week.
  18. Youth Programs,I spend at least 3 hours or more per week
  19. Religious Community, I spend at least 1 hour per week.
  20. Time at home, I spend 2 nights or fewer per week with my friends.
  21. Achievement Motivation, I do well in school.
  22. School Engagement, engaged in learning.
  23. Homework, I do at least one hour of homework every  school day.
  24. Bonding to school, I care about my school.
  25. Reading for Pleasure, three or more hours per week.
  26. Caring, I place high value on helping others
  27. Equality and Social Justice, I place equality and reducing hunger and poverty.
  28. Integrity, Act on my convictions and stand up for my beliefs.
  29. Honesty, I tell the truth even when it is not easy.
  30. Responsibility, take personal responsibility.
  31. Restraint, I believe it is important not to be sexually active, use alcohol or other drugs.
  32. Planning and decision making, I know how to plan ahead and make choices.
  33. Interpersonal competence, I have empathy, sensitivity and friendship skills.
  34. Cultural Competence with different cultural/racial/ethnic backgrounds.
  35. Resistance Skills of peer presure and dangerous situations.
  36. Peaceful Conflict Resolution.
  37. Personal Power over things that happen to me.
  38. Self-Esteem of myself.
  39. Sense of purpose in my life.
  40. Positive View of Personal future.

 

Asset are powerful and everyone can build them. The challenge for all of us is that most young people aren’t experiencing enough of them. There is no “magic number” of asset young people should have, but data indicates that 31 is a worthy, though challenging, benchmark for experiencing their positive effects most strongly.  Only 9% of youth have 31 or more assets. More than half have 20 or fewer assets. 

Research shows that young people from all walks of life have too few assets. Henry County’s Asset Teams start in the 9th grade, and go through graduation. They meet once a month and have special events through the year.   

Developement Assets: Copyright@2001 by Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 800-888-7828, www.search-institute.org