• American Indian-Alaska Native Youth Health
• Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets
• CMHS School Violence Prevention Initiative
• Drug-Free Schools and Communities
• How to Bring and Asset Orientation to your Work
• Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders
• Protective Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
• Protective Process in Adolescence: Matching Stressors with Social Resources
• Resilience: Status of the Research and Research-Based Programs
• Special Education: Model Mental Health Programs and Educational Reform
• Urban Youth Under Stress: Empirical Identification of Protective Factors

• Assets Project- Special Education Service Agency
• Building Up Strengths In Youth (B.U.S.Y.)
• Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement
• Center for Educational Research and Development
• Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk
• Connecticut Assets Network on Education, Diversity, and Excellence
• CYFERNet- Children, Youth, Families Education and Research Network
• National Youth Development Information Center
• Resilience Project
• Resiliency in Action
• ResilienceNet
• Search Institute

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