Preface.

ONE: Looking Through a New Lens.

PART ONE: BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN ALL KIDS.

TWO: Naming the Positive: The Concept of Developmental Assets.

THREE: Developmental Assets: The More, the Better—for All Kids.

FOUR: Directing Energy to Asset Building: Critical Culture Shifts.

PART TWO: WHAT WE ALL CAN DO.

FIVE: Creating Asset-Building Communities: Principles, Strategies, and Impact.

SIX: Energizing, Supporting, and Sustaining Community Change.

SEVEN: Mobilize Young People: Tapping Their Power to Build Assets Themselves.

EIGHT: Engage Adults: Unleashing the Power of Intergenerational Relationships.

NINE: Activate Sectors: Integrating Asset Building into Community Institutions.

TEN: Invigorate Programs: Creating Asset-Rich Experiences for Young People.

ELEVEN: Influence Civic Decisions: Seeking Common Ground on Behalf of All Kids.

POSTSCRIPT: Choosing a New Path.

APPENDICES.

A. Selected Scientific References for Search Institute’s Framework of Forty Developmental Assets.

B. Not Just for Teenagers: Developmental Assets from Birth to Age Eighteen, and Beyond C Selected Resources.

Notes.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Index.