Asset Profile

2002 Report of the 40 Developmental Assets in Marquette and Alger County Youth. Percentage of Marquette and Alger County Youth Reporting Each of External Assets.

External Assets

Category	% 2002 Youth	Asset Name and Definition
Support	68%	1. Family support - Family life provides high levels of love and support.
	24%	2. Positive family communication - Young person and her/his parent(s) communicate positively, and young person is willing to seek advice and counsel from parent(s).
	47%	3. Other adult relationships - Young person receives support from three or more non-parent adults.
	38%	4. Caring neighborhood - Young person experiences caring neighbors.
	27%	5. Caring school climate - School provides a caring, encouraging environment.
	31%	6. Parent involvement in schooling - Parent(s) are actively involved in helping young person succeed in school.
Empowerment	20%	7. Community values youth - Young person perceives that adults in the community value youth.
	25%	8. Youth as resources - Young people are given useful roles in the community.
	49%	9. Service to others - Young person serves in the community one hour or more per week.
	63%	10. Safety - Young person feels safe at home, school, and in the neighborhood.
Boundaries & Expectations	47%	11. Family boundaries - Family has clear rules and consequences and monitors the young person's whereabouts.
	54%	12. School boundaries - School provides clear rules and consequences.
	48%	13. Neighborhood boundaries - Neighbors take responsibility for monitoring young people's behavior.
	27%	14. Adult role models - Parent(s) and other adults model positive, responsible behavior.
	62%	15. Positive peer influence - Young person's best friends model responsible behavior.
	45%	16. High expectations - Both parent(s) and teachers encourage the young person to do well.
Constructive Use of Time	20%	17. Creative activities - Young person spends three or more hours per week in lessons or practice in music, theater, or other arts.
	62%	18. Youth programs - Young person spends three or more hours per week in sports, clubs, or organizations at school and/or in the community.
	52%	19. Religious community - Young person spends one or more hours per week in a religious institution.
	39%	20. Time at home - Young person is out with friends "with nothing special to do" two or fewer nights per week.

Internal Assets

Category	% 2002 Youth	Asset Name and Definition
Commitment To Learning	66%	21. Achievement motivation - Young person is motivated to do well in school.
	65%	22. School engagement - Young person is actively engaged in learning.
	53%	23. Homework - Young person reports doing at least one hour of homework every school day.
	52%	24. Bonding to school - Young person cares about her or his school.
	27%	25. Reading for pleasure - Young person reads for pleasure three or more hours per week.
Positive Values	43%	26. Caring - Young person places high value on helping other people.
	44%	27. Equality and social justice - Young person places high value on promoting equality and reducing hunger and poverty.
	70%	28. Integrity - Young person acts on convictions and stands up for her or his beliefs.
	68%	29. Honesty - Young person "tells the truth even when it is not easy."
	64%	30. Responsibility - Young person accepts and takes personal responsibility.
	40%	31. Restraint - Young person believes it is important not to be sexually active or to use alcohol or other drugs.
Social Competencies	30%	31. Planning and decision making - Young person knows how to plan ahead and make choices.
	45%	32. Interpersonal competence - Young person has empathy, sensitivity, and friendship skills.
	35%	33. Cultural competence - Young person has knowledge of and comfort with people of different cultural/racial/ethnic backgrounds.
	40%	34. Resistance skills - Young person can resist negative peer pressure.
	47%	35. Peaceful conflict resolution - Young person seeks to resolve conflict nonviolently.
Positive Identity	45%	36. Personal power - Young person feels he or she has control over "things that happen to me."
	42%	38. Self-esteem - Young person reports having a high self-esteem.
	56%	39. Sense of purpose - Young person reports that "my life has a purpose."
	71%	40. Positive view of personal future - Young person is optimistic about her or his personal future

From Developmental Assets: A Profile of Your Youth for Great Lakes Center for Youth Development, 2003, by Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN. Data collected with the survey Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors, copyright © 1996, Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN.

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