| | YOUTH
SPEAK: HOW YOUNG PEOPLE IN GREATER CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY VIEW LIFE
IN THEIR COMMUNITY
An Overview of Local Results of the Search
Institute® Attitudes & Behaviors Survey
As reported by 6,300 7th
& 11th graders in our region November 2007
Download
report (.pdf) here Introduction
The Asset
Builders Alliance is a coalition of local youth-serving agencies, founded by the
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati, Boy Scouts — Dan Beard Council,
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio — Great Rivers Region, and the YMCA of Greater
Cincinnati, and funded by the United Way of Greater Cincinnati. The mission of
the Asset Builders Alliance is to mobilize and engage the Greater Cincinnati community
around the Developmental Asset research and promote a shift from reacting to children
and youth with problems to engaging and developing youth such that they thrive
within our communities. Like many people in our communities, we are deeply concerned
about a number of trends in our region that affect young people. We decided to
administer a survey in which young people gave us their own perspective about
what it’s like to grow up in this region. We have prepared this report, selecting
especially significant data from a longer, very comprehensive report provided
by Search Institute®. The report includes the following: - Why
Did We Choose the Attitudes & Behaviors Survey?
- What
are the Assets?
- Who Did We Survey?
- How
Did Our Kids Stack Up?
- What Else Did We Learn From the
Survey?
- So What Does It All Mean?
- Is
There an Action Plan?
- What Can I Do? I’m Just One
Person!
- As a Community, What Can We Do?
Commissioned
by the Asset Builders Alliance for communities in Boone, Kenton, Campbell Counties
in Kentucky and Hamilton and Clermont Counties in Ohio. Report compiled by: Lawra
J. Baumann, Ph.D. |
