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Web-Sites for building Resiliency and Developmental Assets

• Alaska ICE – Alaska’s Youth Developmental Assets statewide initiative (within the Association of Alaska School Boards) http://www.alaskaice.org
  
• Spirit of Youth - dedicated to recognizing the contributions youth are making across Alaska. http://www.spiritofyouth.org
  
• Search Institute - the national organization that developed the Assets framework.
  http://www.search-institute.org
  
• Resiliency in Action - an organization and newsletter to increase deeper understanding of resiliency. http://www.resiliency.com
  
• National Network for Family Resiliency - An extensive bibliography of resiliency research may be found on this website.
  http://www.nnfr.org/research/abstracts
  
• Community Toolbox - an excellent website for ideas and tools to promote community health and development. For instance, there are sections on leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, grant writing, and evaluation to give just a few examples. Each section includes a description of the task, advantages of doing it, step-by-step guidelines, examples, checklists of points to review, and training materials.
  http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/
  
• American Psychological Association - Road to Resilience pamphlets, handouts, video http://helping.apa.org/index.html
  
• Forum for Youth Investment - a national organization dedicated to increasing the quality and quantity of youth investments and youth involvement through research advocacy and policy development. http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org
  
• Dartmouth Medical School and the Institute for American Values - Hardwired to Connect - a new report describing the basic need all children have for "connection" - and what happens when youth don't have meaningful connections with people.
  http://www.americanvalues.org/html/hardwired.html
  
• The Giraffe Project - recognizes people of all ages who stick there neck out and go the extra mile. http://www.giraffe.org/projectinfo.html
  
• The National Youth Development Information Center - a general site with information and links to all things pertaining to youth development.
  www.nydic.org/nydic
  
• The Whole Family Website - information about issues that face parents, families, children and youth. http://www.wholefamily.com
  
• National Adolescent Health Information Center - the goal of NAHIC is to improve the health of adolescents by serving as a national resource for adolescent health information and research and to assure the integration, synthesis, coordination and dissemination of adolescent health-related information. http://youth.ucsf.edu/nahic/products.html
  
• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention - CSAP is the Federal organization with responsibility for improving accessibility and quality of substance abuse prevention services. CSAP promotes a comprehensive prevention system approach that includes community involvement and partnership among all sectors of society. http://prevention.samhsa.gov