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Average Number of Assets2000 Marquette & Alger Student Survey ResultsIn 1997, our communities carried out the first Youth Asset Survey to learn more about the health and well being of our young people. That survey was a wake-up call for Marquette and Alger Counties, because we learned that our youth weren't doing as well as we thought and weren't doing any better than other youth around the nation. Our youth, as many other communities had found, did not have enough assets in their lives. In 1997, our youth, on average, had only 17.4 of the 40 developmental assets. What did we find in 2000? Using the Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors survey developed by the Search Institute, 2,215 youth in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades were surveyed across the two counties. We found that our youth, in 2000, have on average 17.8 of the 40 developmental assets. But the good news is: 37% of our youth, in 2000, have more than half of the 40 developmental assets. We also can be happy that the assets for your youth increased from 1997, even though just a small amount. In total, 29 assets increased, 6 stayed the same, and 5 decreased over the three year period. But there are a few points of great concern for us as a community. First, only 6% of all youth surveyed scored in the goal category of 31 to 40 assets. (This is the level the Search Institute has identified as the level of assets we would want all youth to have.) Ideally, the community would want many more youth to have a high number of assets. How do we work to increase the assets for all youth in our community? Even more tragically, 20% of our youth have between 0 and 10 assets. These youth could be considered in "extreme danger" for involvement in risky behaviors and failure in school. Who are these youth and what are we doing to increase their assets?
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