Asset-building ideas for student support staff

Student support staff, thank you for helping expand horizons and connect students to opportunities.

As a school counselor, social worker, librarian, nurse, or other student support staff member, you come in contact with many students every day. While you won’t be able to develop a relationship with each of them, there are things that are unique about your role that make you a key asset builder in your school.

You can link students with other resources in the school or the community, you can be an adult in the school whom young people can talk to when they need extra support or advice, and you can provide students with information that can help them take care of themselves well and plan for the future. Even if you only see most students once in a while, there are steps you can take to build assets.

Here are some ideas:

Developmental Assets® are positive factors within young people, families, communities, schools, and other settings that research has found to be important in promoting the healthy development of young people. From Pass It On! Ready-to-Use Handouts for Asset Builders, Second Edition. Copyright © 2006 by Search Institute®; 612.376.8955; 800.888.7828; www.search-institute.org. Adapted with permission from Search Institute®. Copyright © 2008 Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN; 800.888.7828; www.searchinstitute.org. All rights reserved.


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