Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future

by Peter Benson, Judy Galbraith and Pamela Espeland

(Grade 5-12) This best-selling book tells parents, teachers, and community leaders how to build assets in young people. It also inspires and empowers teens to build their own assets. It invites readers to identify the assets they already have and the ones they need, clearly describes the 40 assets identified as most essential, then gives hundreds of suggestions teens can use to develop the assets at home, at school, in the community, in the congregation, with friends, and with youth organizations. Softcover, 362 pages.