What Adults Can Do...

• Smile at every child or adolescent you see.
• Advocate for arts education in the schools.
• Volunteer in a school as a tutor, club leader, reader to young students, or other helping roles.
• Build at least one sustained, caring relationship with a child or adolescent, either informally or through a mentoring program.
• Learn the names of the children and teenagers who live near you. Whenever you see them, look at them and greet them by name.

What Young People Can Do...

• Take advantage of interesting and challenging opportunities through youth programs, co-curricular activites, and congregational youth programs.
• Get to know an adult you admire
• Find opportunities to build relationships with younger children such as service projects, tutoring, or baby-sitting.

What Families Can Do...

• Model-and talk about-your own values and priorities.
• Regularly do things with your child, including projects around your house, recreational activities, and service projects.
• Talk to your children about assets. Ask them for suggestions of ways to strengthen their assets and yours.
• Eat at least one meal together every day.
• Read to or with your children.
• Serve others in the community together with your children.

What Congregations Can Do...

• Intentionally foster intergenerational relationships by providing activites for all ages within the congregation.
• Provide many opportunities for youth to be leaders and contributors to the congregation.
• Make community service a central component of youth programming.

What Schools Can Do...

• Make it a priority to provide caring environments for all students
• Use schools' connections to parents to increase parental involvement and to educate parents in asset building.
• Provide additional opportunities to nurture values considered important by your community.

What Organizations Can Do...

• Highlight, develop, expand, or support programs designed to build assets, such as mentoring, peer helping, service-learning, or parent education.
• Provide meaningful opportunites for young people to contribute to others in and through your organization.
• Develop employee policies that encourage asset building, including flexible work schedules for parents as well as other employees, so they can volunteer in youth development programs.