Search Institute, a research organization focusing on positive youth development, pioneered the development and integration of the framework of 40 developmental assets. The framework is grounded in research on child and adolescent development, risk prevention, and resiliency.

www.search-institute.org

Reclaiming Futures has a variety of goals which include continuing to support the development of such models; inviting variation, innovation, vision and community action to involve and reclaim substance abusing juvenile offenders; improving both the coordination of and the overall quality of these types of interventions; educating juvenile judges at unprecedented levels to promote judicial activism and leadership in convening and leading community efforts to build solutions to substance abuse and delinquency; and effectively disseminating nationally the results of the demonstration efforts.

www.reclaimingfutures.org

NOAPPP

The National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention, Inc.

NOAPPP represents some 1,000 individual and organizational members and a diverse network of over 17,000 constituents in every state and territory. Members include health educators, nurses, physicians, social workers, teachers, school and program administrators and policy makers, as well as state and local health departments, school districts, community programs and educational agencies and libraries. Members seek common ground in order to address the issues of adolescent sexuality, pregnancy and parenting at local, state and national levels.

www.noappp.org