Transformation, Affirmation, and Blended Models -- Strategic Care, Sector by Sector: Traverse Bay Area’s GivEm40 24.7 -- The Forgotten Neighborhoods: Moorhead, Minnesota’s Healthy Community Initiative -- Pursuing "The Tipping Point": Portland, Oregon’s Take the Time Initiative -- Community Sustainability: Orlando’s Healthy Community Initiative -- We Are Not a Program! St. Louis Park, Minnesota’s Children First Initiative -- Partnering with Prevention: The Lawton/Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Community Coalition -- "Leaderful" Communities: The McPherson, Kansas, Tri-County Asset-Building Initiative -- The Next New Frontier: Nevada’s Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties -- Project Postscript: Resisting the Template.
Summary
The Healthy Communities / Healthy Youth (HC / HY) project has provided grassroots support for the creation of robust, welcoming environments not only for children and adolescents at risk but for all youth. "Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development" explains the Developmental Assets framework in depth and demonstrates how eight local initiatives across the country have adapted and implemented it to fit the unique cultures and resources of their neighborhoods and the needs and strengths of their young people. Stakeholders collaborating in the process include parents.