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The Search Institute

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The Search Institute believes that faith communities--including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and other places of worship--have tremendous potential for building assets and nurturing the healthy development of young people.  The Search Institute offers information, resources, and training sessions to help FBOs and congregations in their work with youth. Training topics, for example, include: Youth, Money, and Assets, Service-Learning, Youth Leadership and Youth Empowerment in Your Community.  The Search Institute has a variety of printed resources available for online purchase.

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

Search Institute’s unique approach to youth development, focusing on strategic assets youth need in their lives to flourish, offers FBOs a new way of looking at their programs. The asset-based approach is positive and transformative. The web site provides information, tools, the opportunity to sign up for a free newsletter, and links to other helpful organizations.

 

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Child Trends

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Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that seeks to use research to improve children?s lives.  Their objective is to influence public policy-makers, community leaders, and others with power to improve programs and policies that affect children and families.  Child Trends collects and analyzes data; conducts, combines, and releases research; creates and analyzes programs; and develops and analyzes research methods.  It focuses its research in four primary areas:

 

  • child well-being, including child abuse, early childhood development, foster care, and others;
  • marriage/family, including adolescent sexual behavior, fatherhood, and others;
  • research methods; and
  • welfare and poverty 

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Child Trends is a helpful resource for research on many issues facing children, families, and those who work with children.  Child Trends is a member of the Family and Child Well-Being Research Network of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a prestigious organization with a highly competitive peer-review process for membership. 

 

 



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