What’s different about asset building

The twelve fundamental cultural shifts

necessary to sustain a community asset-building initiative.

Moving from:	Moving toward:
Deficit Language	Asset Language
Some Youth	All Youth
From Early Childhood Only	First Two Decades of Life.
Age Segregation	Interpersonal Community
Self Interest	Shared Responsibility
Program Focus	Relationship Focus
Fragmented Agenda	Unifying Vision
Conflicting Signals	Consistent Messages
Efficiency	Redundancy in Asset Building
Youth as Objects	Youth as Actors
Short Term Priorities	Long term Commitment
Civic Disengagement	Engagement