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. EARCH NSTlTUTE S 40 DEVELOPMENTAL ASSETS FOR YOUTH . 1. Family support- Family life provides high Commitment 21. Achievement motivation - Young person is levels of love and support. to motivated to do well in school. I 2. Positivefamity communication - Young Learning 22. Scllool engagement ~ Young person is actively person and herthis parent(s) communicate engaged in learning, positively, and young person is willing to 23. Homework - Young person reports doing at seek parent(s) advice and counsel. least one hour of homework every school day. I 3. Other adult relationships - Young person 24. Bonding to school- Young person cares about receives support from three or more non- his or her school parent adults. 25. Reading/or pleasure - Young person reads for 4. Caring neigMorhood - Young person pleasure three or mOre hours per week. I experiences caring neighbors. 5. Caring scllool climate - School provides a Positive Values 26. Caring - Young perspn places high value on caring, encouraging environment. helping other people, I 6. Parent involvement in schooling - Parent(s) 27. Equality and social justice - Young person actively involved in helping young person places high value on promoting equality and succeed in school reducing hunger and poverty. 28.1ntegril)' - Young person acts on convictions IEmpowerment 7. Community va/llesyout/I- Young person and stands up for his or her beliefs, perceives that adults in the community value 29. Honesty - Young person "tells the truth even youth when it is not easy." 8. }'olltlz as resources - Young people are 30, ResponsIbility - Young person accepts and I given useful roles in the community takes personal responsibility. 9. Service to otllers - Young person serves in 31. Restraint - Young person believes it is the community one hour or more per week important not to be sexually active or to use 10, Safety - Young person feels safe at home, alcohol or other drugs, I_daries school, and in the neighborhood Social 32. Planning and decision-making- Young person II. Family boundaries - Family has clear rules Competencies knows how to plan ahead and make cltoices. I and and consequences, and monitors the young 33. Interpersonal competence - Young person has person's whereabouts. empathy, sensitivity, and friendship skills. Expectations 12. Scllool bOllndaries - School provides clear 34. Cllltllral competence - Young person has rules and consequences knowledge of and coittl'ofFwith people of I 13. Neigllborllood boundaries - Neighbors take different culturallraciallethnic backgrounds. responsibility for monitoring young people's 35. Resistance skills - Young person can resist behavior negative peer pressure and dangerous situations. 14. Adult role models - Parent(s) and other 36. Peaceful ond conflict resolution- Young person I adults model positive, responsible behavior seeks to resolve conflicts nonviolently. 15. PositIve peer influence - Young person.s best friends model responsible behavior Positive 37. Personal pawer - Young person feels he or she 16. Higll expectations - Both parent(s) Identity has control over '"things that happen to me.~ I encourage the young person to do well 38. Self- esteem - Young person reports having a 17. CreatIve activities - Young person spends high self-esteem. Constructive 39. Sense of purpose - Young person reports that I use of Time three or more hours per week in lessons of "my life has a purpose." practice in music, theater, or other arts 40. Posirive view of persona/future - Young 18. YOlltllprograms - Young person spends person is optimistic about her or his personal three or more hours per week in sports, future. I clubs, or organizations at school or in community organizations q t9. Religious communIty - Young person spends one or more hours per week in activities of a I religious nature. 20. Time at home - Young person is out with . friends ~'with nothing special to do" two or tt fewer nights per week. -- -- I -- "