SUGGESTIONS FOR BUILDING ASSETS

Asset # 9- Service to Others
(Young people volunteer one hour or more per week to help others)

To Build Asset # 9 Parents and Extended Family Can . . .

* Volunteer together on a community service project.

* Encourage those groups that your children are in to work together on some useful task or project in the community.

* Help your child put together a weekly schedule of activities that includes some type of service to others.

* Call a local agency that uses volunteers and help your children (and yourself) become a part of their team.

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50% of youth surveyed by Search Institute have this asset in their lives.*

*Based on Search Institute surveys of almost 100,000 6th to 12th grade youth throughout the United States