40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents

Internal Assets – Positive Values

In working with Children at risk, we see that the behave is the reflect of what the know and see in the spaces where they more spent time, it could be their houses, their school or their after school programs.
In order to develop Positive Values it is important to use to break in some of those areas; if we get to connect to the children giving them a learning experience where they can understand that behave would bring more good times that bad ones, or that it would bring more benefit that punishment.
But it is hard to work at this level when we spent couples of hours a day with the children, and we don’t have any connection with what is happening out side our program, and in order to create Positive Values in the children we might need to work with other programs or institutions that share the children time, it could be the school, church, clubs, children houses etc.
It is necessary the complete involvement in the children lives and time to create in them Positive Values, it is know that if we repeat a behave [good or bad] for a not so large period of time, it behave get recorder in the brain and it will continue to happened for the rest of the life, but to create this kind of responds it is necessary to involve time and resources, and willingness to do it, and to mean it,