youth as assets

Developmental Assets–Commitment to Learning

By c4kadmin | July 27, 2020 |

One of the most important things that young people can do is make a commitment to learning and developing the knowledge and skills they need to be successful as an adult. Commitment to learning is foundational in the 40 Developmental Assets and is the category of the first Internal Asset cluster. Many times, when young…

Seeing Youth As Assets

By c4kadmin | July 22, 2020 |

A youth development approach to working with young people is focused on the notion “youth are an asset to be developed” rather than a problem to be fixed. If you look at more traditional approaches to working with youth the pattern has been to identify a problem—for example using drugs and alcohol—and then developing a…