Even More About Assets

Hiya,

Tonite I will discuss some more about the assets that the youth said they did have.

63% said that they had positive peer influence. That is interesting because peer influence gets a feally bad rap, doesn't it. We refer to peer pressure as a bad thing. Youth are saying that it is a positive influence on their lives.

65% of youth say that they are motivated to do well in school. I don't know who they surveyed, but here in Tennessee we have a lot of youth who drop out and do poorly in school.

63% say they accept personal responsibilty.

The research also showed that youth need to have 31 out of the total 40 assets to be really prepared for a successful adulthood.

This is the breakdown:

17% of youth have 0-10 assets total
42% have 11-20 assets
32% have 21-30 assets

and only 8% have 31-40. That is huge! Now it would be good if the youth that we see in our shelters and on the streets had 21-30! But it is sobering to realize that most of our youth need these assets in their lives.

Tomorrow we will look at what we can do about it.

LA