All Kids Are Our Kids!
Search Institute is a leading global innovator in discovering what children and adolescents need to become caring, healthy, and responsible adults. Drawing on extensive research, Search Institute brings hopeful solutions to pressing challenges in the lives of young people and their communities.
Four Innovations That Help Kids Succeed
What does it take for kids to grow up successfully? Search Institute provides research, insights, and practical tools that are critical to positive development:
- Developmental Assets assets are basic building blocks of life that all kids need to succeed. Research with almost 3 million young people in North America shows that these assets play a powerful role in helping young people make positive choices, avoid high-risk behaviors, and thrive.
- Thriving highlights the unique gifts and capacities of each young person. A thriving life involves discovering and nurturing one’s own “spark” and being supported and guided by a family and community that celebrate that spark.
- Spiritual development involves core issues of meaning, purpose, belonging, and identity that give young people a sense that they matter and are part of something bigger than themselves.
- An engaged community of individuals, networks, and organizations that put children first and recognize their responsibility to ensuring that all young people have the resources, opportunities, and strengths they need to thrive.
