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40 Developmental assetsYou provide the passionate programs,

the Assets will provide you with the powerful purposes behind them

Jennifer Stencel and Ned ParksPart 2


Today’s webinar•Live programs using 8 assets•New ideas•Other groups to partner with


1. SUPPORT2. EMPOWERMENT3. BOUNDARIES/EXPECTATIONS4. CONSTRUCTIVE USE OF TIME

You already are unconsciously aware and tuned in.

Let’s bring it to the surface!

4 categories 8 Assets


Support: all about feeling connected to family, neighbors, and community

Programs/ services:

• Display art from the schools= art gallery

• LEGO League Presentation

• Community Connection: match teens with volunteer

(Volunteer Fair)

Your organization

• Discuss ways your organization can support you to outreach and make connections

• Give teens opportunities to make the Teen Space/ Library better (OWN!)

• Promise to meet 2 new teens/tweens a week.


Empowerment: valued, Useful, serving

Programs

• Cyberbully panel to a Teen Tech Squad= teens teach

• Ally spot/Safe Zone for GLTB

• Host a Youth Summit or a Youth Speak Out

Organization

• Examine your Mission Statement, is it teen friendly and speak “your valued” to youth?

• Do you have a Teen Mission Statement?

• Staff Safe Zoned trained


Boundaries: teach over discipline, role models

Programs

• Do you know your library neighbors? Connect!

• Mentor Programs:

• Teens as liaisons to Friends or even Library Board

Organizations

• Rules that make sense and are not biased?

• Rules take in the teen “wired” mind?

• Teens own the rules and re-negotiate/re-evaluated?

• Your neighbors keep watch


Constructive use of time: freedom to try new things

Programs and services

• iCreate labs

• Show off some of the final products from your programs like publish a twitter novel, podcast a poetry slam or story slams festival

• BN Night

Your organizations

• Survey your community- what programs exist for youth after school?

• Can you collaborate?

• Fill a gaping hole?

• What is popular, but not enough of?


What Support looks like

Asset 3:Other Adult

Relationships


What Support looks like

Asset 4:A caring neighborhood


Empowerment

Asset 7

Community Values Youth

Concert


Empowered

Empowerment

Asset 8

Youth as resources

Teen is teaching a soap making class.

She has her own soap making business, and she can’t even drive yet!


Boundaries to teach

Asset 13 and 14

Madden Tournament.

Father

vs.

Son


Constructive use of time

Asset 17 and 18

Yes, those are propane torches.

Making glass beads.

No teen was harmed…


You provide the passionate programs

The Assets back you with powerful purpose.

Part 3 at 10:00 am

October 13, 2011

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