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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
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Today’s webinar•Live programs using 8 assets•New ideas•Other groups to partner with
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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What Support looks like
Asset 3:Other Adult
Relationships
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What Support looks like
Asset 4:A caring neighborhood
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Empowerment
Asset 7
Community Values Youth
Concert
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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!
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Boundaries to teach
Asset 13 and 14
Madden Tournament.
Father
vs.
Son
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Constructive use of time
Asset 17 and 18
Yes, those are propane torches.
Making glass beads.
No teen was harmed…
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You provide the passionate programs
The Assets back you with powerful purpose.
Part 3 at 10:00 am
October 13, 2011