Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Page 16
Positive influences for youngsters supported by Southern Oregon group
Jill Smith, program manager for SOASTC (Photo by Shane Welsh)
By SHANE WELSH
Staff Writer
“Engagement in com-
munity activity is an as-
set,” said Jill Smith, pro-
gram manager for the
Grants Pass-based Com-
munity Alternatives Pro-
gram for Southern Oregon
Adolescent Study and
Treatment
Center
(SOASTC).
Three and a half years
ago, an idea was developed
to promote asset building
for youth.
“We all already build
assets, whether we realize
it or not,” said Smith. “I
just want us to give it a
name; know we are doing
it; talk about it; and do it
more deliberately and con-
sciously.”
Search Institute, in
Minneapolis, Ind., sur-
veyed more than a million
6th through 12th grade
youth in the United States
under the premise that
youth who have positive
influences have better aca-
demic, social and mental
stability than those with no
influences.
The nonprofit organi-
zation works with state and
national organizations to
promote healthy children
and communities.
The study demon-
strated that young people
who experience positive
relationships, activities,
and opportunities will
grow up more healthy, car-
ing, and responsible than
those with little to no posi-
tive influence.
The institute compiled
a list of 40 assets which
were found by the study to
be important in promoting
young people’s healthy
development. The assets
are divided into eight cate-
gories: support, empower-
ment, boundaries and ex-
pectations, constructive
use of time, commitment
to learning, positive val-
ues, social competencies,
and positive identity.
Smith gives a group
presentation several times
a year to site councils at
schools, PTA meetings,
staff, and others when re-
quested. Her presentation
details the 40 assets and
how they can be imple-
mented to help youth.
“Go down to Z Coffee
in Cave Junction some
time where kids hang out,”
she said. “You sometimes
see kids there with green
or purple hair. The adults
will typically glance over
to the kids and see their
hair, and automatically,
they are invisible.
“I have always gone
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No person is your friend
who demands your
silence or denies your
right to grow.
- Alice Walker -
on what other schools were
doing before calling his
staff together for a meet-
ing. He presented poster
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every child in the school.
He had everyone take a
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You are indeed
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- Gahlil Gibran -
out of my way to make eye
contact with them and nod
my head to say, ‘Hi, how
are you doing?’ -- that’s
building assets.
“There was a principal
who asked what he could
do to build children’s as-
sets at his elementary
school.
“We started reading up
the assets at work is a sen-
ior citizen’s group whose
community service project
was picking up trash from
the highway,” she said.
“They looked at the 40
assets and decided that
picking up trash is impor-
tant, but not as important
as helping children.
“Members of the
group each adopted a bus
stop in their neighborhood.
Every day, they planted
themselves at the bus stops
for half an hour or so at the
time the children’s bus
dropped them off after
school. They learned all
their names, how their
days went, how school
was; even how they got a
scraped knee.
“It was like having
grandpa and grandma right
there, every day.
“The children started
looking forward to going
to school. What I hope
people take away from the
40 assets model is building
assets in the community,”
said Smith. “People need
to see that having a caring
community (caring
neighbors) can have a sig-
nificant impact on our chil-
dren,” she said.
“When all was said
and done, there was a
handful of children with a
ton of stars next to their
name (the popular ones).
There were quite a number
of kids with one or two.
“And then there were
some whose names didn’t
have any stars next to
them. We weren’t sur-
prised to find that the stu-
dents who didn’t have any
stars had lower grades, test
scores, and attendance,”
said Smith.
“The principal told
everyone (janitors, cafete-
ria workers, teachers) to
take one of the dots and
put their name on it,” she
said. “He then had them
put the dot next to a name
that didn’t have any stars.
For the rest of the year,
they had to go out of their
way to greet them in the
hallway and ask them how
they are doing. They were-
n’t to tutor them, just con-
nect with them,” she said.
“A year later, their
attendance was up, grades
were up, test scores were
up. The influence is pow-
erful; even as simple as a
connection,” said Smith.
“Another example of
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