Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
External assets:
1. Family support
2. Positive family communication
3. Other adult relationships - young person receives support from 3 or more nonparent adults.
4. Caring neighborhood
5. Caring school climate
6. Parent involvement in schooling
7. Community values youth
8. Youth as resources - young people are given useful roles in the community.
9. Service to others - community service 1 hour or more per week.
10. Safety - young person feels safe at home, school and in the neighborhood.
11. Family boundaries - clear rules and consequences.
12. School boundaries
13. Neighborhood boundaries - neighbors take responsibility for monitoring the youth's whereabouts.
14. Adult role models of positive, responsible behavior
15. Positive peer influence
16. High expectations - both parents and teachers encourage the young person to do well.
17. Creative activities
18. Youth programs - young person spends three or more hours per week in sports, clubs or organizations at school and/or in the community
19. Religious community - young person spends 1 or more hours per week in activities at a religious institution.
20. Time at home - young person is out with friends "with nothing special to do" 2 or fewer nights a week.
Internal assets:
21. Achievement motivation to do well in school.
22. School engagement - young person is actively engaged in learning.
23. Homework - at least 1 hour of homework every school day.
24. Bonding to school
25. Reading for pleasure
26. Caring - young person places high value on helping other people.
27. Equality and social justice - young person places high value on promoting equality and reducing hunger and poverty.
28. Integrity
29. Honesty - young person "tells the truth even when it is not easy."
30. Responsibility
31. Restraint - young person believes it is important not to be sexually active or to use alcohol or other drugs.
32. Planning and decision-making
33. Interpersonal competence - young person has empathy, sensitivity and friendship skills.
34. Cultural competence - young person has knowledge of and is comfortable with people of different cultural/racial/ethnic backgrounds.
35. Resistance skills - young person can resist negative peer pressure and dangerous situations.
36. Peaceful conflict resolution - seeks to resolve conflict nonviolently.
37. Personal power - young person feels he or she has control over "things that happen to me."
38. Self-esteem
39. Sense of purpose
40. Positive view of personal future
