The Thriving Kids Roadmap

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Thriving Kids Roadmap

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The Thriving Kids Roadmap is a program produced by Focus on the Family (Focus) utilizing the research and expertise of Search Institute, creator of the 40 Developmental Assets. It provides a quantifiable way of approaching parenting issues by helping parents to build assets in their preteens/teens.

For thirty years, parents have relied on Focus for biblically-based, psychologically-sound insights and advice on how to raise great kids. As parents face increasingly difficult situations in raising children and teens in our culture, Focus has looked for the best tools and resources to assist parents. A few years ago, Focus became aware of one of the most important advances in youth development, the 40 Developmental Assets. Recognizing the empirical research for the assets and also their compatibility with Scripture and biblically-sound parenting principles, Focus and Search Institute began work on developing the Thriving Kids Roadmap to make the assets available to a wider range of parents.

The result is the Thriving Kids Roadmap including questionnaire, personalize action plan and other valuable resources.

Search Institute is a leading national innovator in discovering what children and adolescents need to become caring, healthy, and responsible adults. Drawing on extensive research, Search Institute brings solutions to pressing challenges in the lives of young people and their communities. Since its founding in Minneapolis 50 years ago, it has had a commitment to helping people of faith more effectively nurture their teenagers in body, mind, and spirit. The independent, non-sectarian institute is best known for its research-based framework of Developmental Assets, which identifies critical building blocks of healthy development that all young people need to grow up successfully.

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Watch a video from Focus on the Family's President Jim Daly on what you get with the Thriving Kids Roadmap!

What Others Are Saying

"I could not believe that an online questionnaire would transform my family. Our communication is so much better. In fact, we don’t waste time fighting about the same issues... we are growing and thriving as a family now.

We couldn’t be happier!"

– Bethany from San Diego

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